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Forum: Armchair-GMJan. 3, 2022 at 1:06 a.m.
Thread: Trades to get us into the playoffs
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Nhl_oilers</b></div><div>I understand, thanks for the comments! Yes, I don’t like giving the first in the trade, I would rather not, and don’t think we have to. I agree that it’s either close, or spot on.. it’s interesting to see other’s opinions, and I’m not saying you are wrong. I just like it that you didn’t try and rip me apart! How doesn’t Samorukov do anything for you guys? He can play both sides well.</div></div>

I truly haven’t seen him play I just quickly glanced at numbers and saw he has 3 points in the ahl and had 8 in the khl so unless he’s some defensive juggernaut I’m not sure if there’s any value there. If your telling me he’s like edmunson for us where he’s good defensively hits and blocks ****s and will be a top 4 d then I don’t see any real value to move a trade in a direction or the other
Forum: Armchair-GMJan. 1, 2022 at 10:00 p.m.
Thread: What it will take to acquire Ben Chiarot before the Habs fly home from Florida
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>sensonfire</b></div><div>The 1st round pick is for 2023 and has no lottery protection like in the Sekera trade.

Florida traded away its 2022 1st to Buffalo.

It will need to be for 2023.



I just happened to hear what Pierre Lebrun had to say about Florida's interest in Chiarot.

Also, the fact that the draft is in Montreal should have absolutely no bearing on the value that Montreal gets from any trade.</div></div>

how'd I forget they gave up the pick.
also I mentioned the draft being in Montreal because they might want the pick in 2022 so they could have multiple picks at home. Now they might target a 23 draft pick as next years draft looks insane, and odds are even later in the draft will be strong, who knows
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 31, 2021 at 2:21 p.m.
Thread: Interesting trades
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>BigBadBurke</b></div><div>Ok so it sounds like you two would also now take Wright, Kemell, Savoie, Lambert, Miroshnichenko over Nemec/Jiricek?

lol so precisely what I was saying then as I stated earlier, you don't pick either of those guys with a top-5 pick... Fine take them over Cooley/Yurov/Slafkovsky but not the others who are game breakers and will be high impact offensive catalysts for whichever team drafts them</div></div>

If we wanna get technical I didn’t say firmly to take Miroshnichenko. I said maybe but it’s tough for me. If you take Wright,savoie,Lambert,kemell that makes the the d you take a top 5 pick

Not sure why you’d be upset with him going 5 but not 6. The strength of the draft would determine that one spot

To me if you have the balls you take Miroshnichenko 5 but it also depends on your team. Currently I’m not having him as a firm pick over the two d
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 30, 2021 at 9:32 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 30, 2021 at 8:51 p.m.
Thread: Interesting trades
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>BigBadBurke</b></div><div>Because defensemen notably take much longer to make an impact at the nhl level than forwards do. And it is much easier to find steady very good defensemen outside of the top-10 than it is high skilled forwards.</div></div>

Id rather wait 7 years for massive impact than 5 for mediocre impact. Is your goal with this potential top 5 pick to turn the habs around as to me outside of your top 4 those players are very long shots to be the type of player to turn a team around. watching Montreal for years I absolutely am driven mental but mediocre players

To me based on your list if you have pick 5 you either pick Miroshnichenko as he has massive upside or you grab one of the two d

Very good but not elite defensemen have so much more value than mediocre/solid forwards. Not sure why you'd take the considerably less valuable player simply because they impact the team early

Also defensemen outside of Nemec and Jiricek are absolute crap shoots while you can get some legitimate forwards with massive skill like lekkerimaki in the first round and there's always tons of talented forwards in the other rounds

Draft the defensemen over cooley Yurok geekie and Slafkovsky and wait the extra couple of years as its worth it. Also really good defencemen develop pretty quickly
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 30, 2021 at 8:24 p.m.
Thread: Interesting trades
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>BigBadBurke</b></div><div>There's a difference between very good defensemen and ELITE top-pairing game changing defensemen. One you take with a top-5 pick, the other you don't. Alls I'm saying is, you don't go after a defensemen at 1-5 if you're not 100% sure they will be a top-2 on your team for the next decade +

My rankings are I would have the Forward group with bigger star potential from 1-7 and Nemec &amp; Jiricek just inside/outside the top-8

1. Wright
2. Kemell
3. Savoie
4. Lambert
5. Yurov
6. Cooley
7. Slafkovsky
8. Miroshnichenko/Nemec/Jiricek</div></div>

I understand your point now, I know its early but Yurov cooley and Slafkovsky project as middle six players. just wondering why your comfortable with a most likely middle six winger over a sure thing top 4 dman. Like Nemec and jiricek are in the Jeff perty (outside of this year ) category with some more upside while you listed three players who are in the Toffoli territory (outside of last year)

I can certainly understand if you had him at 5. Again the confusing thing is your okay with meh forwards but will only take elite defensemen?
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 30, 2021 at 3:31 a.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 30, 2021 at 3:19 a.m.
Thread: What do you think of these deadline moves
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Campabee</b></div><div>I hope/think a retool makes more sense, while we could use a top talent (I assume we get one this draft) our team has a good balance of young guys, guys in their prime and aging vets. There are 3 guys (Hoffman, Savard and Dvorak) on our healthy roster that I would love to move on from as they are not living up to expectations and of course we still need a top 4 PMD preferably LH'ed. Fix those issues and this roster is once again solid. There are a couple of FA centers I would love to attract if we moved Dvorak at the deadline (Kadri, Hertl, either Strome, Domi and KK (if he is left extended)). Also if we could nab Wright, Savoie, Cooley or Lambert at the draft any one of them would also be a good add down the middle (Lambert is a bit of a risk but may be worth it if we fall a bit and don't win the lottery or if we pick up a second pick in the 8-15 range via the trade deadline)</div></div>
id say its probably 50/50 maybe 60/40 at this point that we retool. We do have solid young pieces like Suzuki Caufield Guhle and a few others. As you mentioned we need some high end talent especially down the middle.

Here is my problem with a retool, We've had our conversation about Gallagher and somewhat agreed that the last two or three years might be bad, Petry isn't getting younger and neither is price. Im not entirely convinced that this team can be legitimate contenders simply from making some moves this off-season.

Toffoli-suzuki-caufiled
Drouin-hertl-gallagher
50-60ptslw-dvorak-anderson
Poehling-evans-lehkonen. and you move Byron and Armia

Edmundson-petry
pmd-savard
Guhle-romanov

and price is a mystery. I don't mind Dvorak at all as a 3 line centre, problem is he playing too big of a role and the expectations are too high.

this team that I just made might be able to sneak into the playoffs if everything goes right. but should we really be adding 7x7 or so for hertl(for example) to our large and aging contracts of Gallagher price Petry and Anderson for a team that might make the playoffs if everything goes right?

to me you should rebuild. Add a first for Chiarot and maybe another for next year for Toffoli and build solely around young guys and as I said above sign your nice free agents and make your big trades when your ready, ideally when Bedard/ (whoever your 2023 pick is) is in their 3 or 4 year


just off the top of my head you could build around

Bedard and Suzuki
Michkov and Suzuki
Fanitili and suzuki
dvorsky and suzuki
plus Caufield, maybe Lambert Miroshnichenko or savoie and add a guy like lekkerimaki with that second pick

and on defence
Guhle romanov norlinder strube Mailloux Harris if he signs jiricek or namec if you draft them



Bedard-Lambert
Suzuki-Caufield
- lekkerimaki

Guhle-Mailloux
Romanov-Harris maybe
Norlinder-Struble

that's pretty damn good if you ask me
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 29, 2021 at 10:41 p.m.
Thread: What do you think of these deadline moves
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Campabee</b></div><div>See I think he is the type of player who makes everyone on the team try harder. The type of guy you keep even if his career is declining in the last 2 or 3 years of his contract because of his experience and leadership. I suspect Gally will score 20-30 goals over the next 2 or 3 years and can live with 2 or 3 years of less productivity given the blood sweat and tears he has shed for the Habs already.</div></div>

which is perfectly fine. if we are rebuilding which we should it would probably take 4-5 years before we can be a playoff team again. his hard work and leadership can rub off on the kids and his contract will end and we can spend that money on the right players just in time for playoff success, which is what im hoping happens
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 29, 2021 at 9:52 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 29, 2021 at 7:39 p.m.
Thread: What do you think of these deadline moves
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Campabee</b></div><div>Gallagher's deal is not as bad as many fans think, he has 4 straight seasons where he scored or was on pace to score 30 goals and 2 were covid shortened. This season is an anomaly not the norm, why do we want to dump that? I get that everyone thinks his contract MAY NOT age well but it also MAY be just fine. No one can predict how long he will play and even if he isn't up to the 30 goal standards of recent years 20+ goals is still acceptable for his contract and his other qualities.</div></div>
the problem isn't that he can't score right now, its that he's broken his hand 3 times and had a concussion at 29. he gets hacked, slashed and cross checked unlike many and he's got 5 years left. he's gets most of his goals from hard work. the question truly is how many healthy years are left. he's played 4 full seasons and he's only 29.he has no real shot or hands and has okay speed. I hope he's fine but I think injuries will end up dragging him down, I hope not though

I love the guy but those back few years might be tough
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 28, 2021 at 11:35 p.m.