Quoting: Kotkaniemi15
You can’t compare Weal with Byron & Lehkonen. 2 are 3rd liners that can play up and down the lineup and are great defensively and one is a depth forward that is ok offensively and who you don’t want to play every night.
No argument here on that. I would much prefer Lehks and/or Byron than Weal. But i do like Weal on the 4th line.
The context is "overpaying" for a player. In the cap era having two 4th liners making $5.6m may mean you're sacrificing higher end players in the top half of the line up. The line up above may work for one year with Hall at $9m. But when all the UFAs are coming up next year, a lot of tough decisions will have to be made. (Lehks will likely want a bit of a pay bump, and Byron still have 2 more years)
Top in East and West 4th Lines (according to dailyfaceoff.com)
St. Louis' = Barbashev, MacEachern, Sundvist -- combined caphit of $3.75m.
Boston = Nordstrom, Lindholm, Wagner -- combined caphit of $3.1m
Ideally I think 4th liners for the Habs should be relatively reliable cheap players --- like Weal, Thompson, Cousins, and Evans (possibly) = combined caphit of all 4 players (if they were all still with the Habs) -- $4.2m
Here's hoping a player that is WORTH $9m+ is willing to sign in Montreal......that doesn't play in goal.
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