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Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 23, 2020 at 2:29 p.m.
Thread: Dont CBO Price and Weber
Lol Price and Weber will not be bought out. Any suggestion comes from people who think they can predict the future.

Montreal is very unique and fans of other teams don't quite understand the Habs situation. They look at the roster and project their cities circumstance on it, because that's what they know and most teams are similar that way. It really doesn't work completely the same way in Montreal.

Montreal has never been and will never be the premier destination for UFAs. Language, taxes, weather, fan pressure, etc etc etc. Grooming your own talent takes years and to make matters worse, Habs haven't been great at developing talent neither. Simply put, Habs have a hard time reaching the cap ceiling, even they wanted to. The only time they ever came close was when they knew they had a good team and wanted to add some good players through free agency and completely overpaid to ensure they could get the players.

The Habs will never get to a point where they'll not be able to afford a player they want because they have no cap space due to guys like Weber and Price costing too much. If it was New York or Dallas or San Jose or something, that's a different story but for Montreal the odds are incredibly low of that being the case.

Not to mention that there are a plethora of ways of deal with big contracts, nearing the end of their term like Price and Webers. If ever the Habs desperately need cap space fast for X reasons, they'll deal with it at that time. Its important to make the distinction between being overpaid and being a "cap dump". Price and Weber are simply overpaid but they are still good players.

If the Habs CBO Price and Weber, they'll be out of their top dman and their #1 goalie. That's not what CBO's are for. They're for the players with big contracts that no longer have a place on the team. We're not talking about guys like Lucic or Ericksson or Ladd etc where the teams would rather just not have those players on the team anymore if they had a choice, regardless of cap hit.

So no one has to worry about Price and Weber's contracts when they are in their late 30's....... they won't hinder the Habs from being a better team than they'd be without them. If ever it gets to the point where Price is not even good enough to be backup goalie and Weber can't even skate anymore and the Habs need cap space, they'll figure it out.

CBO'ing both of them now would be like giving away your 3 year old car because in 10 years the car will be scrap...... deal with the scrap yard when the car is compete scrap. Not when its still running perfectly and looks good but has a couple bumps and scratches.
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