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Forum: Montreal CanadiensAug. 29, 2022 at 6:38 p.m.
Thread: Early Habs 2022-2023 season 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:
Great Season
Cole Caufield - Hits at least 60 points with 35+ goals
Sean Monahan - Rejuvenates his career on a bad Montreal team putting up around 50 points (assuming he does indeed miss some time due to injury)
Evgeni Dadonov - 40 points at the deadline, becomes a fan favorite, (sort of like what happened to Kovalchuk) and gets traded for at least a 2nd rd pick and a prospect

Average Season
Brendan Gallagher - Like you said, an improvement of last year but that isn't saying much. He gets around 15 goals and 20 assists
Kirby Dach - Not a breakout year but also not a bad year. He puts up around 35 points and is projected to be a good middle 6 center
Josh Anderson - Scores 20 something goals... just an average season

Bad season
Jonathan Drouin - Has a very promising start to the season and gets hurt... and doesn't come back
David Savard - Plays as he did during the first half of last season...
Juraj Slafkovsky - Starts the year on the team and is very underwhelming, gets sent back to Europe after nine games and everyone overreacts and starts labeling him a bust. (Hopefully this doesn't happen)


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

My predictions:
Standings placement
7th in Atlantic - 14th in Eastern Conference - 26th in League


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:
Trades
Evgeni Dadonov has a great year and is retained and dealt at the deadline for a pretty good return - MIN, WSH, NYR
Jonathan Drouin is traded for close to nothing as he's been on the IR for damn near the whole season. Similar to the Riley Nash trade to Toronto in 2021 - LAK, COL, ANA

Extensions
Unless Jake Allen and Sean Monahan have good years and are willing to resign then I wouldn't have a problem with it. Realistically, the only UFA I see getting an extension is Alex Belzile.
Forum: Montreal CanadiensApr. 6, 2022 at 11:53 p.m.
Thread: Montreal Canadiens Season Discussion Thread Trade Deadline Edition
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>DucharmetheDOMinator</b></div><div><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?</div></div>

wasn't he good on the powerplay during the last few games of last season?
Forum: NHLApr. 6, 2022 at 2:15 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 13, 2022 at 2:18 p.m.
Forum: Montreal CanadiensFeb. 7, 2022 at 8:49 p.m.
Thread: Montréal Canadiens Season Discussion Thread
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Zuki9797</b></div><div>Lines at practice/Lignes à l'entraînement:

Lehkonen - Suzuki - Toffoli
Byron - Evans - Anderson
Hoffman - Dvorak - Gallagher
Armia - Dauphin - Caufield
Pezzetta - Pitlick/Poehling - Paquette

Chiarot - Romanov/Clague
Kulak/Wideman - Petry

Montembeault
Primeau


Personally I hate seeing caufield playing on the fourth line, as well as pitlick and poehling on the fifth line. Having paquette still playing as well is a terrible idea too
Evans playing on a higher line than dvorak or pitlick? I really dont understand ducharme's motives
Why are you playing with two d-lines having three defensemen each instead of the standard three pairs? Im genuinely confused, however i think we'll wee romanov with chiarot, kulak with petry, wideman and clague on the third pair
Final note: Price is continuing his rehab with the habs, and was training with assistant athletic therapist Matthew Romano, but didnt face any shots

Personnellement, je déteste voir caufield jouer sur la quatrième ligne, ainsi que pitlick et poehling sur la cinquième ligne. Avoir paquette en train de jouer est aussi une très mauvaise idée
Evans jouant sur une ligne plus haute que dvorak ou pitlick ? Je ne comprends vraiment pas les motivations de Ducharme
Pourquoi jouez-vous avec deux lignes D ayant trois défenseurs chacune au lieu des trois paires standard ? Je suis vraiment confus, mais je pense que nous allons faire pipi romanov avec chiarot, kulak avec petry, wideman et clague sur la troisième paire
Note finale : Price poursuit sa cure de désintoxication avec les Canadiens et s'entraînait avec l'assistant thérapeute du sport Matthew Romano, mais n'a fait face à aucun tir.

(my french isnt great so i just used google translate / mon français n'est pas très bon donc j'utilise juste google translate)</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>A_Habs_fan</b></div><div>I think most of us in here are bilingual/understand English, if you aren’t comfortable writing in French, you don’t have to. Sending down Paquette and Dauphin would be great but that won’t happen. Poehling should definitely take Dauphin’s spot. Also, with Byron being back and the forwards pretty much all healthy, I could see Caufield or Poehling go to the AHL for confidence/playing on a good team</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>KSIxSKULLS</b></div><div>I actually got an infraction for writing English in the French section so it's probably the same on the English side.</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>SevenLeg</b></div><div>What really</div></div>


I just use les deux langues 😈