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Forum: Armchair-GMSep. 27, 2022 at 8:04 a.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMSep. 27, 2022 at 9:48 a.m.
Thread: Standings Predictions 2022-23
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Campabee</b></div><div>Fact is Florida got weaker, Boston maintained about the same and the Habs lost players sure but no one really knows if last year's roster improved on their 2021 playoff roster or weakened it since last year they broke a 100 year old record for man games lost. You can say all you want that injuries happen and should not factor into how good a team 8s, which is true for the most part but when you have 1 NHL caliber player (Suzuki) in your lineup and the rest is AHL players for almost a month it's hard to win games. Everyone keeps ruling them out but most of their lineup has something to prove this year. I seriously do not think they will be as bad as most think.</div></div>

Oh they won't be as bad as they were last year, but they were MILES away from competeing for the playoffs, and I expect the same again. The fact of the matter is that they don't have Price again (who carried them in the 2021 season), they still haven't properly replaced Danault, Weber's gone. They'll be closer to 70-80 points than 50, but they would have needed to double their points total last year to compete for 3rd. That's not happening. Boston is still a 100 point team if you're saying they are the same, and Florida got weaker sure, but they're getting weaker from a standpoint of a team that just put up 120 points. Montreal will be far more competitive, but 3-5 is a big stretch
Forum: Montreal CanadiensAug. 26, 2022 at 2:17 p.m.
Thread: Early Habs 2022-2023 season predictions
Time to get out your crystal balls! Let's have a bit of fun a put up our "way too early" season predictions!

Here's how I structured the predictions.

1st section is player season performance predictions. You have 3 categories: great season (exceeds expectations or showed great progress), average season (did not show any major improvements, but also did not disappoint), bad season (did not meet expectations or just had a bad season). Place 3 players in EACH of the three categories and give a small explanation for why they are there. *please try and put players who will have a significant role on the team. to keep things interesting!*. Do not put more than 3 players in the categories, even though there could be many more that have great or bad seasons. Just choose 3.

My predictions:
<strong>Great Season</strong>
Cole Caufield (hits the 40 goal mark)
Juraj Slafkovsky (proves doubters wrong and "at least" gets nominated for the Calder trophy)
Michael Matheson (Has all Habs fans say "Prime Jeff Petry who?" by seasons end and is the Habs best defensemen by a wide margin)

<strong>Average Season </strong>
Nick Suzuki (puts up 60ish pts season again. Not a bad season, but has everyone starting to doubt if he can be a #1C)
Brendan Gallagher (improvement over last season, which isn't saying much. puts up over 40pts, but just shy of 20 goals)
Kaiden Ghule (becomes an NHL regular, Yay! but doesn't show any of the "top pairing" potential everybody is hoping for)

<strong>Bad season</strong>
Josh Anderson (with a plethora of wingers on the team, Anderson's inconsistencies gets him relegated to a bottom 6 role...really hoping I'm wrong on this one)
Christian Dvorak (gets eclipsed by the combination Monahan, Dach, and Evans at C. Injuries continue as well)
Jonathan Drouin (for whatever reason, can never get things going. Same as the previous 3 seasons, is away from the team for large amounts of time due to injuries or other reasons.)



2nd section is team performance predictions. Only 1 category: Standings placement (within division, conference, and NHL)

My predictions:
<strong>Standings placement</strong>
7th place in division (ahead of Buffalo, 8th, who finish last, but closely behind Detroit, 6th, in points and *fingers crossed* Florida who have a down season and finish 5th in the division)
14th in conference (ahead of Philly, 16th, who finish last, and Buffalo, 15th)
27th in the NHL, as in 6th last. (ahead of Chicago, Philly, Arizona, Buffalo, Seattle. As much as I'd like MTL to finish last to get Bedard... It would take another disastrous season for that to happen. Any kind of improvement, which is what we are hoping for for our young core, will only bring the Habs higher up in the standings... Nowhere to go but up from last year)




3rd section is the trade + pending UFA predictions. To make it interesting, you can trade ONLY 3 players (pending UFA or not), and you HAVE to extend 2 of MTLs pending UFAs. Predict who's being traded, and for what return, and predict the contract extension of both UFA players.

My predictions:
<strong>Trades </strong>
Mike Hoffman (gets traded way before trade deadline day, to a playoff team who's had PP struggles. MTL gets a 3rd rd pick + an average prospect. No salary retention. My guess for the teams are LAK, MIN, NAS)
Evegeni Dadonov (gets traded on trade deadline day, for a 2nd rd pick, 50% salary retention, My guess for teams are BOS, WSH, EDM)
Joel Edmondson (MTL will be looking to add another 1st rd pick at the 2023 draft, and none of their pending UFAs will get them that value. With the emergence of Guhle and Harris, and the fact that Edmondson is still signed to a good contract the following year, compared to what Chiarot signed in DET. Kent Hughes will make him available and get a boat load of interest, and manage to get a 2023 1st for him.... Twitter and CapFriendly implodes with how Team X overpaid for him.... my guess for the teams are LAK, DAL, OTT)

<strong>Extensions</strong>
Sean Monahan, extended 3 years at $4.5mil...maybe $5mil AAV. (Monahan has a solid year, displaces Dvorak, essentially becoming the "Danault replacement" Habs have been looking for, and is a great support, along with Evans, for Suzuki and Dach.
Jake Allen, extended 3 years at $3.25mil AAV. (Goalie market is a barren wasteland, and with no real replacement on the market OR in the Habs current system, Hughes extends Allen)
Forum: Montreal CanadiensApr. 6, 2022 at 11:39 p.m.
Thread: Montreal Canadiens Season Discussion Thread Trade Deadline Edition
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Habs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">#Habs</a> Richardson says Romanov is learning to manage his energy so that he can eventually be a regular OT contributor.Richardson summing up Romanov: “Sometimes he has too big a gas tank; he likes to stay out there a long time.”</p>— John Lu (@JohnLuTSNMtl) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnLuTSNMtl/status/1511738565612478464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">April 6, 2022</a></blockquote>


OK, so this explains the question I've been having for a long time of why romy never plays ot.
But 1 other question still remains. Why doesn't he play on the powerplay?
Forum: NHLApr. 6, 2022 at 2:56 p.m.
Thread: WHO WINS THE HART WITH POLL
Honestly, bias aside, I think McDavid has a good shot of getting it, and he probably will get it, but I don’t think he should. I know a lot of oilers fans would say McDavid, or Draisaitl, but I think there are others that deserve it more than they do. Those guys are, Igor Shesterkin, Johnny Gaudreau, and Austin Matthews.

Igor Shesterkin: Shesterkin has 93 games under his belt, and we have never seen him play this well before. Last season he had an impressive .916SV%, and the year before a very good .932SV%. This year, he is continuing his good stat career, and he has a .933SV%! I believe without Shesterkin’s great work ethic, and without his very good numbers he is putting up, the rangers wouldn’t be this good at all. I think the rangers would be close to the bottom. I know guys like Fox, Kreider have stepped up, and took their game to the next level, but Shesterkin has done the same thing, but in a major way! With how he is carrying this team, he should be one of the finalists.

Johnny Gaudreau: The Calgary flames did not play well last year in the north division. Last year, Gaudreau got 49 points in 56 games with a +2. Now he has 95 points in 69 games with a +50! We have never seen this before from Gaudreau. He also had a 99 point season, and right now he is blowing that out of the water! This is very impressive especially for a small forward, as they are forgotten a lot of the time, and they get targeted by a lot of the other teams players. Without him, I don’t think Calgary would be first in the pacific this season. They would be in a playoff spot, but not as good. With that being said, this is why he should be one of the finalists.

Austin Matthews: Some people believe I hate Matthews, just because he plays for the leafs. Yes I don’t like the leafs, just like I don’t like the flames, but Matthews is a good player and you can’t dislike a player just because he plays for a team you don’t like. Last year, he played very well with the leafs at the top of the north, he posted 66 points, 41 goals in 52 games. That is very good, and just like the oilers are with McDavid, the leafs wouldn’t be as good without Matthews. He helps get that team to succeed, and it is funny, but sad that they can’t make it passed the first round. I believe if Matthews plays this well next year, and they upgrade they can finally get out of that first round. This year, Matthews is hungry for that second round, and hungrier than ever! He wants to finally get to the second round for the first time in his career, and is showing that with his 95 points, 54 goals, +12 in 65 games. 54 goals is insane, especially since he only played 65 games this season. I hope he crushes it and goes for 60 goals! We don’t want Ovechkin to win the Richard trophy anymore.. and instead, we want a new young face this year! I believe Draisaitl, and Matthews will be fighting for that award for years to come and it will be entertaining. Bringing two awards to Toronto may show the fans, and the roster that he wants to win now! With that being said, that’s why I put him on he list, and he should be a finalist!