Quoting: Campabee
Toffoli, Anderson, Gallagher and Tatar can all consistently put the puck in the net 20-30 times per year. Drouin, Suzuki, Kotkaniemi, Armia, Byron and Staal between 15-20 and Lehkonen and Perry between 10-20 time but we need scoring right! Have you even watched a Habs game? The Habs last season were one of the best 5 vs 5 scoring teams in the league and there was no North division then, how do explain that? Oh rightwe were playing in a division with weak defenses then too right!? You are just trying to troll and failing miserably at it. Habs need a PM LHD that's it. We have already come back multiple times vs the likes of the Leafs, Jets and Oilers after falling multiple goals behind in fact we did last night in the 3rd from 2 goals down. You argument doesn't hold water my friend!
...that’s not good enough to contend for a cup. You do realize you proved my point right?
Notice any team that contends for the cup have significantly better average points across their entire roster of players? Tampa? Chicago? Washington? No team has 3 players who maybe barley reach 30 goals, and maybe 3 more score 20-25, and the rest barely reach 15. You clearly are not watching the games! What was the score tonight?
If you want to contend for a cup or at least be better than mediocre, you need 1. Proven scorer 2. Decent goaltending 3. Strong consistent d-man 4. Constant team grind. If you have any coherence of the last 5 years in MTL, you’ll realize the Habs have has maybe 3 of those things at one time. There is a clear fear or lack of urgency to improve scoring or at least threatening offence, that is at a level to compete with teams like Toronto, Florida, Winnipeg, Tampa, Carolina, etc. Adding players like Toffoli help big time but don’t project a team into contention.
There’s a clear bigger picture: not one team in the league is or should be afraid of the 2021 Montreal Canadiens, unless they solidify defence that doesn’t get passed around and add a dynamic threatening forward. If it’s Caufield, perfect. Not confident that’s him.