Quoting: Habs4ever
At first I was where is Suzuki and KK. Then I was why is Leaky up on 1st line and I noticed more, then I noticed the word tank and got what you were doing. It might be worth a shot. Put those young guys in Laval, let them go deep in playoffs. Trade away assets, hopefully get a good draft pick and then put pieces in place for next season and subsequent years. The only negative I see with this, is why not try and move both Weber and Price? yes they have no trades, but no trades can be lifted to send player for shot at cup. If you keep those two, then keep all your traded players and add to build around them. MTL needs to make a decision, are they building around Weber and Price or around next crop of Suzuki, KK etc?
Claude won a cup with Thomas and Chara at siimilar points they are now with a team balanced between players with all his star players 25 or under alongside some veterans you love and trust followed by one's everyone questioned .
if in the next year or so we have Poehling , KK , Suzuki , Domi,Primeau and Drouin can step up even half as much as Lucic , Marchand , Rask , Horton and Bergeron did then we're doing all right
i mean everyone counted Thomas out until they put him in a Tandem with a young goalie motivating him to play every night as if he could be benched after a bad game .
Chara as he's done for 10 years since has been a stellar leader for dozens of BOS D over the years as Weber will in MTL
i can see you wanting to move Price but moving Weber makes no sense given unlike Price he takes pride in mentoring young guys and doesnt declare it a burden in the media . Weber's the Captain for a reason and he's the best one we've had since Koivu