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Forum: Armchair-GMil y a 17 heures
Forum: Armchair-GMil y a 17 heures
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>AntiAnalytics</b></div><div>Except the defense won’t be the same- not at all really
Byram will be here for the full year, and he &amp; Dahlin together on our top pair has been DOMINANT

This allows Samuelsson to slide down to pair3 and improve that pairing (with Clifton)

And pair2 of Power &amp; Jokiharju is the only real question mark here, as it’s uncertain if we want to spend the $$$ to keep Jokiharju, or if we wanna spend even more on a UFA upgrade at that spot


Either way, our defense next year will look quite a bit different than it did last season

Also, we’ve stabilized our goaltending with UPL taking such a big leap forward- and that obviously helps
Plus, there’s holes at forward we have to figure out
3C, top9 winger, checking line (the whole thing, lol)

So there’s still room for us to make some changes here
We just got started on them already at the deadline by trading for Byram &amp; shipping out our Captain (Okposo)


No offense, but i went into detail here bc u seemed to have a rather pedestrian view of us.
Back to your trade though…. we aren’t gonna want Barron.
He isn’t a top4 guy, and our RD3 is already set with Clifton for the next 2 years.
Plus, (again), we aren’t looking to move Krebs.
Trading Mittelstadt has actually freed up room for him to get a shot at a more offensive role in our top9, so we’ll see how that goes.

I get how the trade makes sense to you,
but with a little more thought i hope u can see why we clearly wouldn’t make this deal</div></div>

As strange as it is to say because it was the biggest trade of the TDL... I actually forgot that you got Byram... makes a lot of sense now.
Forum: Armchair-GMil y a 18 heures
Forum: Armchair-GMil y a 18 heures
Forum: Armchair-GMil y a 19 heures
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>KentMcNally</b></div><div>I am not one of those people that see Lundell as a big upgrade to Montreal's roster. I think if Dach can come back and put his health issues behind him then he could be a good 2nd line center. This year they will probably draft a talented forward (Eiserman, Catton, Lindstrom) to eventually be that 2nd line player with Dach. Hopefully one of Newhook, Roy or even Mesar could fill out the 2nd line. I could see Owen Beck being a very good 3rd line center for the Habs.

With Lundell his offensive numbers have decreased each year in the league (0.67 points per game in his rookie year to 0.45 points per game last year to 0.43 points per game this year). To me that does not indicate a 2nd line center on a contending team. He is not a 2nd line center in Florida and they are a contending team.

So if Lundell is a 3rd line center, how does that impact Owen Beck's placement in the lineup moving forward?

I believe that Montreal has a top 9 forward group that could look like the following in the future:
Caufield Suzuki Slafkovsky
Newhook/Roy Dach 2024 First Round PIck
Newhook/Roy Beck Mesar/Free Agent/ 2025 draft pick

I am not saying that Lundell is bad, I just do not see a pressing need to give up assets to acquire a guy who looks like he has a ceiling of a 2nd line winger (if things turn around for him in a significant way) or a 3rd line center who would displace one of our other good prospects.</div></div>

It's a fair argument, but not all draft picks and prospects pop. I think it's likely the guy we draft this year (let's say Catton) has a 3 year journey to being a valuable contributor in the NHL (as Lundell/Dach/Newhook are now) and maybe another 2 years to hit his stride. That is a long time to wait.
Forum: Armchair-GMil y a 21 heures