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Lets Have Fun here we all know Montreal is Dieing for  A #1 Center and they also Need someone to play with Either Weber or Petry in top4

Lets  Be Rafter Gms

Trade Proposal #1
Montreal Trades  Alex Galchenyuk and a 1st rounder in 2018
For
Brodie  + Bennett

 CGY defense is stacked so the lost of Brodie ( hamonic  coming in ) doesnt hUrt and they get a decent  Upgrade  on Bennett ( upside)

we Get a #2 Center  Ready ( with #1 Potential)  and a player to fix  our Dcore and we turn around and Sign to a 2year deal  someone Like  Joe Thorton  as a stopgap  for 2 years

discuss...

Option #2

Break the Bank on SHattenkirk we sell him the chance  to win a cup here  and play alongside  Weber for the rest of his  career
we instantly have 1 of the best Defensive group in the league and we build from the net back.. we keep galchenyuk and  live or die with him as a center


 

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Man I don't know.  The organization seems a bit lost.  But they still have Price.  His play declined slightly last year though.  But the play of Plekanacs and Ghallagher also tailed  off a bit.  And Galchenyuk did not take a step forward.  Sergachev is looking like a stud Dman, now gone, but Drouin can help offensively.  With Markov also gone there are blue line  issues.  Not a big lot in the pipeline.  They will see how far Price can carry them but the time for a rebuild may be approaching.

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Not much more to say. Bluecharm pretty much covered it. The forwards need to be much better and the blue line must prove it can be reliable. Price can't be the best player on the ice all the time. Option 1 and 2 ain't happening. But then again I was sure there would be a women President.

It does seem the pendulum of success between Montréal and Toronto is swinging west.

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what do we think of jakub jerabek ? I know he isn't Markov... but it's been quiet around this czeck dman? 

I know Tavares is a long shot, but with the islanders situation with the arena and him not being signed yet, thought it could be plausible but I do get the fact that MTL itself has a management doing the head scratch.

Unfortunate we had to sergachev go ! I was pretty stoked after watching him play in Windsor 

what are people's thoughts on what Montreals future is ? And who should stay or go ?? 

Seems to be a fair bit of montrealers out here ?!? 

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Don't think Edmonton is gonna trade a centre. They've been lacking in depth at C for 10 years. So much so that they just traded one of their top wingers for a C. 

I think they're plan is to run Draisaitl with Mcdavid, and RNH, Strome and Letestu as their other centres. First time in years they've had competent bottom 6 centres. 

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Still don't think Edmonton landed a face off specialist, though. That liability really showed up against the Ducks. I would be in favour of trading RNH because he's a $6M defensive centre who doesn't score enough and doesn't win enough draws. You could find a $3M guy to give the same production. But failing landing that guy, the Oilers should not trade RNH or their centre depth would be crap.

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Montreal needs more than RNH and it's going to cost them since everyone knows how bad they need a #1 center for this season. If SJ falters out of the gate, would SJ be willing to part with Thornton. He could be a great 1 year solution and probably would not cost the Canadiens more than a decent prospect or draft pick.

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SJS has run Thornton - Pavelski - Couture down the middle before, all making big money. If the centers are able to carry a line, I don't think money matters *as much*, but the guys have to be able to shuffle around the line-up. Draisaitl has already, and I definitely think Nuge can be shuffled around too. Top six forwards on the team are still Mcdavid, Draisaitl, Nuge, Lucic, Maroon & likely Strome in that order, though your mileage may differ.

If Oilers are worried about money, why the flip did Russell get $4m for forever? 

For the proposed trade, I don't see Gallagher as being a good enough return for Nuge, by a decent amount.

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2 minutes ago, Ralphdog said:

Just an interesting side note, this will be the first time since the 91-92 season that the habs will start a season without a Russian born player on their roster.

havent really thought of that, interesting ?!?!?

nikita will have to make the team to keep the ball rolling 

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22 minutes ago, Duxburger said:

hopefully we can get these Mtl prospects (slim pickings) to step up!

how far is noah juulsen, nikit scherbak ? MCcarron needs to do something as well.

i know therrien wasnt the greatest for the young guys, maybe julien will give them a shot "a la pasternak"

Mtl Prospect pool is  almost inexistant as far as fowards go,  too early to talk about  this year draftees yet
Sherbak  looked  good  after is  injury . watching his highlights he seems to have a lazer of a shot, but still doesnt know what to do  without the puck( probably never will a-la-galchenyuk)

Mccarron best shot at beeing a long term Nhl player is to get  good in the faceoff dot.   He has huge size  and is kinda mean but   too slow to be effective ( he cant be ryan reaves)
is best shot is  become 4th line faceoff specialist  like  boyle while putting up 30ish pts in a great year

Juulsen seems the only worthy prospect to talk about , after a  bad   year  ( post  draft)  he  turned it  around last year, and looked quite impressive  for team canada U20,    he was there go to guy to shut  the enemies ( 2nd best dman  after chabot)

Hudon.... meh  I read Desharnais but a bit more gritty and maybe smarter
Reway was electric  But  that shady illness  from last year is cause  for concern well see.
I like victor Mete seems good

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Montreal D pairing

Weber/Schlemko
Petry/Alzner
Benn/Streit
Davidson/?

Life is never perfect and leaves Weber wanting something more but Schlemko could be just good enough to let Weber be Weber. The 2nd pairing would be quite solid. The rest are decent dman and if they play up to their potential, they could turn out to be quite solid. If Juulsen can take the next step, he could give the bottom pairing a little more scoring ability. One fact that should make Price happy, he's got some very good shot blockers in front of him.

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1 minute ago, Vegeta said:

but doesnthelp the problem thats its  all price or nothing 3 goals =  lost 90% of time vs 70% of time  on other teams

Schlemko is not a better puck mover than Alzner. Streit can't handle the minutes anymore. You get what you get. Weber and Alzner can both move the puck fine enough to get the job done.

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