Always been a factor. Was a factor yesterday when the Leafs signed Marleau, too. Only relevant now that the Habs failed to sign their own guy. 😉
kingslunk says the Canadian government should just tax less. That would fix everything.
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NHL Off-Season 2017 |OT| Weve Been Here Since October
- Thread starter Fata1moose
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kingslunk says the Canadian government should just tax less. That would fix everything.
Radulov gone makes an already weak offense that much worse. Now they have to resign AGally (good luck mending that bridge), and BargainBin will do his usual "Let's see how this guy does" with Hemsky (and possibly 1 of Grigorenko or Yakupov). They better hope they can get Markov, otherwise they're s'ed in the b.
MultiJhonny
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Do it.
Maybe. Though Kovalchuk said it was Rangers, Blue Jackets, or KHL.
I know Gorton reached out to Shero and was denied. Not that it really had any chance of succeeding or that it's anything we need. I wonder if the Jackets do it though... and he could be posturing too.
I just want a decent C and some depth guys.
Fata1moose
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Fuck the Stars, they weren't even that bad and they got a lotto pick and now Radulov. While we're on the subject fuck Texas.
I eagerly await our signing of 36 year old Connor McDavid.
CreeperBlocks
Banned
I'd try it
MultiJhonny
Banned
I agree
Unhandled Exception
Member
Hey man, I'm glad they bit that bullet and not us. It'll be funny when he starts phoning it in once he realizes that the Stars are going no where.
ElephantShell
Banned
The Habs fan replies to this tweet are top notch: https://twitter.com/radul22/status/881953802139701249
Radulov was always chasing the money. A total mercenary. Later bruh. Guarantee he'll be bought out long before 5 years.
Anyways,
In:
- Drouin
- Alzner
- Hemsky
- Holland
- Froese
- Taormina
Out:
- Radulov
- Sergachev
- Markov
WTF:
- $84M on a goalie
- 5 years on the job and still no 1C or 2C
What kind of blackmail does BargainBin have on Molson to allow such a pure trash GM keep his job?
Anyways,
In:
- Drouin
- Alzner
- Hemsky
- Holland
- Froese
- Taormina
Out:
- Radulov
- Sergachev
- Markov
WTF:
- $84M on a goalie
- 5 years on the job and still no 1C or 2C
What kind of blackmail does BargainBin have on Molson to allow such a pure trash GM keep his job?
What is absolutely hilarious is that AGally basically goes from the trade block to 2C.
You're right of course, they'll try Drouin at centre to likely disastrous effect.
Totally agree
This is what I see the Habs icing on opening night:
Casperetty-Danault-Gallagher
Drouin-Galchenyuk-Lehkonen
Byron-Plekanec-Shaw
Hudon-Mitchell-McCarron
Alzner-Weber
Jerabek-Petry
Schlemko-Benn
Price
Montoya
What a pure puke lineup top to bottom aside from the second line (defense be damned lol). That's probably a bottom 10 lineup across the whole league.
Casperetty-Danault-Gallagher
Drouin-Galchenyuk-Lehkonen
Byron-Plekanec-Shaw
Hudon-Mitchell-McCarron
Alzner-Weber
Jerabek-Petry
Schlemko-Benn
Price
Montoya
What a pure puke lineup top to bottom aside from the second line (defense be damned lol). That's probably a bottom 10 lineup across the whole league.
Foreign Jackass
Member
I'd LOVE to see you try to spin this offseason as anything other than disastrous.
It's like BargainBin pulled the Drouin trade off first in hopes that we'd all miss his series of blunders over the following 2 weeks because we'd still be fellating him over landing a brand spanking new french golden boy.
This is the sad, depressing truth. Habs 2017-18 season will likely end the same as most other recent seasons - with a first round exit.
Here's what a predict: yet another scorching hot October. Habs will be like 10-2 out of the gate and fool everyone again into thinking they might be legit. Then yet another midseason slump and yet another limp to the playoffs on Price's back. And finally another harsh dose of playoff reality when they are completely exposed.
about as much as defending everything the Canadiens do
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Stars have that much money to spend, huh. And that's with $10M+ on their goalies.
Foreign Jackass
Member
I wouldn't worry too much about the Stars, though. They'll still suck.
- He went out and got a player who could be a legitimate superstar in this league
- Signed the teams MVP and the face of the franchise to an 8 year contract
- Lost out on an UFA where he offered what he could
- Waiting on Markov still
- Decent depth signings
- Working on re-signing AGally
It's July. How is that disastrous? We still need a top 6 center, and preferably an upgrade on defense, but if Markov resigns, that defence is fine. You think he's given up trying to get an upgrade at C? It hasn't been an amazing off season, but calling it disastrous is so hyperbolic. If he doesn't upgrade the team at the center position by training camp, then yea, that's on him and won't be a good sign. It's July, take a deep breath and chill.
oh in this situation i'm partially agreeing with you tho, it's not DISASTROUS but i'm not seeing it with your rose tinted glasses. I don't believe in 10.5M goalies and I want Alzner to prove me wrong but that contract sounds stupid as hell
Our offense is still lacking and full of "if"'s and i'm sick of it. If Drouin, if Galchenyuk, if Pacioretty, if Danault, if Plekanec, if Byron, if Hemsky
The reason he's tied up and can't find what he wants is because he keeps overpaying for some players, while refusing to overpay for talents. Shaw, Alzner (previously Emelin), Plekanec. Those contracts are haunting him
This team won their division with Therrien as their coach for the half the season and players like Emelin and Desharnais playing major roles for the majority of the season. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect them to have a great season with Julien having the reigns from the start, Radulov is a loss, but Drouin counters that loss. If Markov doesn't come back, I'll start to get concerned, and I don't for a second think Bergevin is done modifying this team.
dude stop we won the worst division in the league and got booted in the first round, if that's your end goal i'm glad for you I guess
Fata1moose
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I'm not too worried about anyone else, the Avs beat themselves.
CreeperBlocks
Banned
It's only July guys. We have plenty of time. We just have to sign Galchenyuk now. I could give two shits if we re-sign Markov or not
Nah but I'm not going to start saying we're a bottom feeder team. Lots of areas for improvement, and lots of time. That's all.
Grigorenko already signed with a KHL team, so that's not happening. Nail could be following him too.
CreeperBlocks
Banned
Carolina is just the Blackhawks junkyard now
MultiJhonny
Banned
Creeper?
Foreign Jackass
Member
Yeah, no, that's where we disagree. You don't do those shitty poker moves (all-in! no counteroffer!) with a player with the talent of Radulov. We haven't had a player with his talent in a decade. Now that you find a second one in Drouin, which is the minimum you need to be a contender (two really talented offensive threats), you let the other one go?
We're on a treadmill. Bergevin needs to get the fuck away.
It's also been two summers in a row where Bergevin can't keep the fan favorite in Montreal. From a PR point of view, this is a disaster.
SmackCrackleNPop
Member
McDavid is already an asshole to me. Fuck him. Bring on the heel turn.
CreeperBlocks
Banned
I don't remember any Hab wearing a high 90s number ever. I could be wrong though
Ott wore 92 last season
CreeperBlocks
Banned
i just had a bone chilling thought
we've been assuming as a silver lining there's an outside chance marleau would replace hyman on the matthews-nylander line
but
hyman is a right shot and the only player that's been anchored to matthews no matter what
marleau-matthews-hyman
😟
we've been assuming as a silver lining there's an outside chance marleau would replace hyman on the matthews-nylander line
but
hyman is a right shot and the only player that's been anchored to matthews no matter what
marleau-matthews-hyman
😟
Ah yes, the vaunted September blockbuster. I could be wrong here, but I don't think August and September have historically been gangbusters for mega, franchise-outlook changing trades. In a general sense, depth signings aside, the team you have post-expansion, post-draft, and post-UFA frenzy is pretty close to the team you'll have in October.
Unless BargainBin has the mother of all deals up his sleeve to trade for Tavares, I see our centre depth come opening night being Danault, AGally/Drouin, Plekanec, Mitchell.
And that is a really, really big problem.
Well I'm the dumbass who bought a Radulov one this year. And no way no how does Drouin stick with 92, so I'll be waiting to get his.
What should have happened is AGally should switch to 94 this year for a fresh start and Drouin take 27.