For 1 year of Tartar ahahahhahahahahh NEVER

sad that will not happen

It's completely idiotic to trade Tatar for more of what we already have and then replace him with an overpaid Taylor Hall. I'd rather Tatar over Hall any day of the week.

And even if the cap were going up, the Krug, Hall, and Domi signings would still be bad contracts.

Don’t know what you have against Domi but since joining the habs he’s had a career year and although his play was inconsistent still put up decent numbers this season. That’s not a bad contract at all. Although Tatar has been great since joining us it’s possible his play will be declining when the habs are contenders. I’m both for trading him and signing him, if we get an overpay offer we move him, if he asks too long of term we should move him . Adding youth which will be ready when we’re contenders is a good move as well

No way Edmonton accepts that.

Well said HFX_10

Agreed, great points! We have to be realistic and accept we are not on Bos, TB & Tor levels right now. Yes we have depth but until we can improve our top 4 D and produce a true #1 centre, the best thing to do is the rebuild through the draft and/or using the surplus of solid picks and prospects to acquire young higher end prospects. This also gives time for our current solid to higher prospects Suzuki, Poehling, KK, Mete, Juulsen, Fleury, Brook time to develop. Any team over the past decade that has sustained being a contender for long periods of time have done so through draft (Pit, Chi, TB, Bos, Tor, LA, STL, Was? with some home grown elite/higher end picks and prospects and building around that. I get it, most of those teams also won Draft lotteries and landed several top 5 picks but that still doesn't make it foolproof, there has to be depth and a good mix (sorry Edm, Buf & Flo, you haven't been able to make this work). We cannot afford to get caught up in high paid, long term deals with guys over 30. We already have Weber and Price, who i love but won't be worth their cap hit in 2/3 more years. If we can re-sign Petry and Tatar at 2/3 year deals at current salary or less, i'm all for keeping them. But I don't see that happening (and in their defense, if winning a cup now and/or getting paid as much as possible is what they want, than re-signing as a Hab, is NOT in their best interest).

I agree with you completely about Tatar, but I don’t know why anyone would be willing to overpay an aging Taylor Hall, when he’s only 11 months younger than Tatar, and has had injury issues before. As for the youth, yeah it’s good to add it, but you need to have a mix. I prefer to have young players like Romanov, Primeau, Caufield, etc. mixed with veterans like Price, Weber, Gallagher, & Tatar. IMO we have enough young players & prospects to fill out a roster for when we are contenders, and should be focusing on keeping some veterans, so we have experience when the time comes.