Yes from NJ

I don’t understand the Chiarot trade. Why not just keep him and not sign Goligoski….Chiarot is better than Goligoski anyways

Trade Chiarot who shut down Matthews & Marner, Jets elite forwards, and Stone & co. so that you can pay Danault more than Pageau who has 13 points so far these playoffs at the same time as being a shutdown C?

Oh, but I guess it’s not fair to only look at one season. Danault has 1 career playoff goal vs. 23 for Pageau.

$3.5mm is the right number for Danault.

A lot better

I don't believe so, chiarot has played well in playoffs, but there were large parts in the regular season where chiarot made lots of questionable plays, goligoski gives more mobility, however I have not watched too much of goligoski, so my analysis of him could be off.

When Adam Lowry is getting paid 3.5 mil, it is clear danault will want more. No knock on lowry's skill, but the defensive impact he provides is not as efficent or as visible as danault. Lowry was given time to play as 1c whenever players went injured, and his defense was not anything noteworthy, neither was his offense, 3.5 mil is around what scott laughton and adam lowry got paid recently. Phillip Danault is a player in the range of pageau in projected salary wise, however pageau gives you a good offense and good defense, but while danault is centering the shutdown first line that held stone to zero points, matthews to 1 goal, and there is absolutely no denial danault played a much larger part than chiarot in defending these marquee players. Also to add on to danault, yes his offense is snakebitten this year, but he had had more 40+ point seasons than pageau on his track record, his offensive role has diminished this year, and his defensive duties have increased, there is reasoning behind why his offense has decreased. You don't win these series with danault being able to anchor that shutdown first line, because no other center on that team has reached that level of defensive play as a center as of yet. Keeping him is important to team structure. Maintaining this center depth can be the key to consistent success for the future of the canadiens.

What makes you believe chiarot is much better, yes he's been great in the playoffs, but he made multiple blunders, and had poor stretches in the regular season. Goligoski has better mobility and transition play. Chiarot always tends to dump teh puck in, goligoski as far as I've seen is able to transition the puck better. Weber as he is aging, needs a puck moving dman on his side that is also not inexperienced. This is a bridge to future puck movers that will be ready within 2 years to play with the canadiens, in norlinder/struble/harris, though struble is known to be a bit hitter, he has good mobility to back it up.

I figured that ryan murray was on his way out as I was seeing rumours, so thought this could be a destination IF chiarot gets traded to fill in a similar role of a defensive dman/agitator.

I agree fully that Danault will want more. What you want, and what you get however, are not necessarily the same thing. Put Danault on a team without Price and without our top 4 shutdown D, and all of a sudden he doesn’t look like quite as good of a shutdown center anymore.

Explain to me how Danault is more critical at shutting down Matthews than Chiarot? Last time I checked, centers battle with opposing D when trying to score in close far more than opposing centers. Plus Danault plays less minutes than Chiarot/Edmundson.

I fully agree with you that keeping Danault would be important. But that’s contingent on him being willing to accept a contract that’s also palatable to the team and our overall salary structure.

I guarantee you that Bergevin is prepared to let Danault walk if he’s unwilling to be reasonable. He’s not irreplaceable. We could also replace him with a more offensive center like Granlund, possibly for less money.