Quoting: Canesfan21_
I think he will end up in Montreal one way or another, I just think WPG will at least want a first or a top prospect. Dvorak and Norlinder don’t do much for them
Why ?
You assume he'll sign and not got to Free Agency
You're assuming MTL wants to sign him early while dealing with Caufields payday
Reality is MTL is better off waiting until Free Agency
Take a run at him his last year before he goes UFA if we're in the playoff mix
But any earlier makes no sense as we're already overloaded on our roster.
After this years TDL its less of a problem
After next years TDL if we sell then we'll have like 9m cap after signing everyone not including Price who likely will be on LTIR by then again.
Plenty of cap to sign PLD
I say until then invest
Hoffman scored 243/430 career points on PP for 49.5% of all his production
MTL had the worst Powerplay on Average the past 5 years of any team consistently .
MSL showed up and suddenly we're producing
Even on a crap PP unit 37% of his offense came from PPP
My point is simple, with all the pieces we got that are high end skilled players
Guys like Drouin and Hoffman will play a bigger role this year with Limited D options
There's more value in letting MSL pick out his roster now and then sell what left before bringing in PLD
Guys like that you dont bring in at the start of a Build