1. Dylan Gambrell wants his qualifying offer and you're not giving it to him.


2. We are not bringing back Tyler Ennis.


3. You're overpaying Claude Giroux.


4. Montreal says "Thank you, Come again".

Habs aren’t retaining on Petry

Jeff Petry will be 35 in December and his play is falling off. There isn't a market for that type of player at 6.25M with 3 seasons left on his deal.



1. Fixed, not sure why 100k matters for a healthy scratch lol it's just capfriendly

2. Tyler Ennis is one of my favourite players. He will retire an Ottawa Senator and you can't convince me otherwise

3. Ottawa is the least desirable FA destination outside of Arizona (there was a poll recently). Sens needs to massively overpay for players of that caliber even if it's his home town.

4. Petry was 13th in Norris voting last year. He took a big step back but kind of found his game towards the end of the season with the new coach. At ~50% retained he definitely holds decent value. They surveyed NHL execs in an Article on The Athletic recently and they pretty much all said Brannstrom's value is roughly a 3rd/4th round pick at this point. I believe a late second + Brannstrom is very fair and maybe not even enough.

Habs aren’t retaining on Petry (bis)

Yay another LD for Montreal. No.

HAHA I WAS RIGHT