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Forum: Trade Machine ProposalsApr. 19 at 1:00 p.m.
Thread: Just hear me out
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>AnyoneButTheBruins</b></div><div>I know what you are saying but teams will trade for UFAs to kind of get first crack at signing them like Husso.</div></div>

Yeah but I think there are about 4 maybe 5 teams Kane is considering and an early chance to sign him isn't going to work. If he wants to win another cup he will wait until most of the big name players have resigned or signed with new teams before he decides. I don't think it's as much about money as it is about his sone who turns 4 in November and will be able to understand and remember what winning a Stanley Cup is all about. I think Florida is probably the front NYR being next and maybe Las Vegas and possibly Toronto being in the mix. I don't know if he wants to play in Canada and like the other 3 teams on the list how they do in the playoffs and how the rosters look after free agency will play a big part in where he decides to sign. If the situation is similar to to this year I think Detroit and Buffalo are in the mix. At this point I really another cup is the priority, but I said that before he signed in Detroit and I was wrong,
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 15 at 9:28 p.m.
Thread: Habs 24-25
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Billy316</b></div><div>You dont need any D but thats another conversation
What i wanted to point out is Matheson-Guhle is our top pair most of the year
Savard went out Months blocking 3 shots in a row and gave Guhle basically the first half of the year there
Matheson doesnt get to 60 points IMO if any other Dman in our system players Mathesons RD.
We've seen it the last 2 years that Matheson doesnt play well with others a lot of the time.
He needs a guy capable of handling a lot of 2v1 and 3v1 when he turns over the puck or blows entries.

Guhle for that reason will be here long after Mathesons Traded
Guhle is everything we need him to be at such an early age where he's just Reacting .
Give him space to lead with Matheson and Savard gone , it'll be like with Suter and Weber left NSH leading to the rise of Josi, Ellis and Ekholm</div></div>

I disagree now some players don’t mind playing on their off side but they are at a definite disadvantage. Trying to hold the puck in the player on their forehand is going to win that battle more times than not. You can put your ass to the boards and stop it with your skate and leg but then it’s really hard to make a play from that position. You are basically waiting for another player to come along and dig it out. In the defensive zone along the boards you run in to the same problems. Plus clearing the puck up the boards becomes a problem because your constantly hitting the boards at an unfavorable angle and instead of going up the boards the puck pops out to the middle of the of the zone where the defenseman on the other side or a back checking forward can easily turn it in to a quality scoring opportunity. When it comes to hockey IQ it’s almost negligible. Let’s use Guhle as an example. He has a high hockey IQ and wether he’s in the 1st or 2nd pair he’s going to be seeing a lot of the other teams 1st and 2nd lines and most of them have high hockey IQs as well. You can’t tell me that a top 6 winger isn’t looking at a defenseman on his side and seeing that as a weakness he can exploit. If you were to poll GMs and coaches I think a lot of them would rather have RHDs on the right and LHDs on the left especially in their 1st and 2nd pairs. Sometimes they are forced to play defensemen on their off side like with the Wings last season after trading Hronek we didn’t have another NHL ready RHD so Chariot played on the right side. With Montreal this season Guhle on his off side is still better than any of your other RHDs except Savard so it makes sense to play him on the right. But if Montreal had a choice they would prefer him on the left.

Would Guhle play above all our current LHDs probably every one but Edvinsson and we do have some very good LHDs in our system. But upgrading a position that is set, when we have holes in other spots that desperately need attention would be poor roster management . As I've been saying about trading for Chychrun, it's a luxury we can't afford right now and it applies to Guhle as well.