Quoting: Lenny7
No offense here, but Allen just put up below league average numbers last season, and for his career, his numbers are right around league average. Not sure why not losing him in expansion is considered a huge win, when instead you lost a decent young D prospect instead? Maybe there was no real future in Montreal for Fleury, but I don't think it's a huge win by any means.
Not saying that Allen isn't a capable backup, but those guys are a dime a dozen. If we're banking on the 19/20 year, or 15/16, sure, he was solid, but overall, notsogreat.
With Petry, what a great offensive season last year! I'm assuming the OP has him here though due to concern about paying that much in an extension for the age 34-37 years. No reason for concern just yet, but we all know how the aging curve works 99% of the time.
You're right with Weber. If he was healthy, you'd be in trouble, but now it's a rough spot to put Nashville in (Perhaps why they've cleared so much payroll space?). It'll be interesting to see how it works out-The NHL were the ones to push for the recapture penalty to avoid contracts like his-Will they stick to their guns and actually penalize the Preds for this (which would be massive)? Or will they let Weber live out his career on LTIR if he is in fact done?
Allen provided solid backup work for Montreal, the first time in years that they have had it. When Price struggled/got injured over the past few years, Montreal lost their playoff hopes. Being able to rest Price so that he can play when it matters, is more of an impact than Fleury will ever be to Montreal. Fleury is also projected to be a #5 or #6 defenseman, easily replaced even without our own system, as he wasnt used this year.
Petry agreed, but he has only been getting better and better. No reason to think its a bad contract with him.
Weber, agreed to an extent. IF he is healthy, he is still useful. Like Price, he played his best when it mattered. LTIR, I don't see Montreal doing Nashville any favours. They would have to do Cap gymnastics prior to the season every year for 5 years to hold onto that LTIR contract. Weber is barely owed anything on it and could easily retire. The NHL has already "lessened" the impact of the cap recapture by spreading the last few seasons out over more years instead of the crazy 24M that was originally the worst case scenario. IF Weber is done, Nashville will have to give up assets to be able to throw him on their LTIR for the next 5 years. Maybe Montreal wants to hold onto to him 1 more year, to see if he is really done, but I imagine Nashville wants that contract back ASAP, because each year it gets worse and worse. Should be interesting. If Marleau was worth a 1st because of his $6M cap hit, I wonder what Weber is worth to prevent at least $5M per year to Nashville for 5 years. (I hope i wrote this clear enough...)