Welcome back after your long hiatus!

I disagree that this is the solution to all of our problems. To begin with, it's not unusual for a player moving to a new team to struggle for a while, even for a full season. Look, for example, at Ryan Graves, who was on my list of LhDs to go after before Blake re-signed Vladi Gavrikov. Second, you cannot accuse DuBois of playing badly despite his linemates -- he's been with second-rank players all season long. Has he spent the year between Quint Byfield and Adrian Kempe, I don't think that we would be having this discussion.

In my not-often-humble opinion, an upgrade either on DuBois's wing or in goal will carry us at least one round further in the 2025 playoffs than we will go this season.

Welcome back after your long hiatus!

I disagree that this is the solution to all of our problems. To begin with, it's not unusual for a player moving to a new team to struggle for a while, even for a full season. Look, for example, at Ryan Graves, who was on my list of LhDs to go after before Blake re-signed Vladi Gavrikov. Second, you cannot accuse DuBois of playing badly despite his linemates -- he's been with second-rank players all season long. Has he spent the year between Quint Byfield and Adrian Kempe, I don't think that we would be having this discussion.

In my not-often-humble opinion, an upgrade either on DuBois's wing or in goal will carry us at least one round further in the 2025 playoffs than we will go this season.

Welcome back after your long hiatus!

I disagree that this is the solution to all of our problems. To begin with, it's not unusual for a player moving to a new team to struggle for a while, even for a full season. Look, for example, at Ryan Graves, who was on my list of LhDs to go after before Blake re-signed Vladi Gavrikov. Second, you cannot accuse DuBois of playing badly despite his linemates -- he's been with second-rank players all season long. Has he spent the year between Quint Byfield and Adrian Kempe, I don't think that we would be having this discussion.

In my not-often-humble opinion, an upgrade either on DuBois's wing or in goal will carry us at least one round further in the 2025 playoffs than we will go this season.

To the contrary: the Montreal supporter I'm referring to has stated in a simultaneous post that Anderson's cap hit is such a burden that it would be better to spend one of your 2025 firsts to get rid of him rather than buy him out. Note that we're not talking about the choice of keeping him or trading him with a first, or between keeping him and buying him out: your colleague insists that it would be better to spend a first to make him disappear than buy him out with reduced-value dollars in years 4, 5 and 6 while saving $8,833,333 against the cap in years 1, 2 and 3.

See Subban Trade
If MTL acquires him before July 1st
We dont have to honor the NMC at all so he'd be 100% unprotected going forward
Still a gamble for us but NMC would only kick in if he stays in LAK

Not true, at the time Subban was traded NMC and NTC were not transferable, with the new memorandum of understanding that was changed, now NMC and NTC are transfered to the new teams.