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Things leaffan thinks the habs should do. (no troll edition)
- Fire their GM asap unless they have some sort of reason to keep him around. His bizzare player moves and personal decisions are leaving the team in shambles.
- Start scouting for coaches and assess the current coaching situation. Firing their assistant was a dumb idea considering how bad the PP has been since the firing.
Realistically become a seller at the deadline if the playoff picture gets even worse which then would result in trades such as:
- Trading Kostitsyn (UFA). I'm sure a Nashville, LA, St. Louis, Dallas ect ect would possibly pony up their 1st rounder closer to the deadline if they feel they had a legit shot at running deep into the playoffs.
- Trading Hal Gill (UFA). Could result in more draft picks and possibly prospects to a team wanting some defensive depth.
Players like Moen and Desharnais could fetch decent picks or prospects to teams in the playoff hunt as well.
Next year:
Bury Gomez in the minors and just pray he either gets his game back enough that he could possibly because a waiver claim or that he helps out the younger players. It just doesn't make sense for him to be in the NHL with the lack of progress he's making.
Carey Price sign to a 5 or 6 year deal with a 6+ cap hit or go long term for lower cap hit. He needs to be signed. This is one time they can't be penny pinching.
Emelin and Subban need to have 2 or 3 year deals. Subbans cap hit will be higher. Emelin is severly under rated and should stay with the team. The core of Emelin, Subban, and Gorges are pretty good building blocks.
Kaberle or Markov will need to have decisions made for the next season. I really don't see them having a need for both players. At least they would have 2 years left at the end of this season. The canadiens at least have some really good Dmen in the minors. Nathan Beaulieu will replace Markov and/or Kaberle easily hence why I'm thinking trading one of those two players away either in the last year of their deal or the year before would be more benefitial to the team.
Quick side note for funny reasons. They have a dman named Jarred Tinordi in their system. Dude's a beast. 6'7 212. He is the big powerful Dman they want. He's going to be 20 next month and will be either playing for the Canadiens next year or their AHL team. If they trade him away I will laugh.
They don't need to go through a complete rebuild and restructering like their fans seem to think they do. They have the goalie and and they have a solid backend coming up. They just need to get some forwards that will do something and not over pay them. This may take a while but they have enough in place to really turn the culture and play around in a short period of time and not have to go the Edmonton route.
- Fire their GM asap unless they have some sort of reason to keep him around. His bizzare player moves and personal decisions are leaving the team in shambles.
- Start scouting for coaches and assess the current coaching situation. Firing their assistant was a dumb idea considering how bad the PP has been since the firing.
Realistically become a seller at the deadline if the playoff picture gets even worse which then would result in trades such as:
- Trading Kostitsyn (UFA). I'm sure a Nashville, LA, St. Louis, Dallas ect ect would possibly pony up their 1st rounder closer to the deadline if they feel they had a legit shot at running deep into the playoffs.
- Trading Hal Gill (UFA). Could result in more draft picks and possibly prospects to a team wanting some defensive depth.
Players like Moen and Desharnais could fetch decent picks or prospects to teams in the playoff hunt as well.
Next year:
Bury Gomez in the minors and just pray he either gets his game back enough that he could possibly because a waiver claim or that he helps out the younger players. It just doesn't make sense for him to be in the NHL with the lack of progress he's making.
Carey Price sign to a 5 or 6 year deal with a 6+ cap hit or go long term for lower cap hit. He needs to be signed. This is one time they can't be penny pinching.
Emelin and Subban need to have 2 or 3 year deals. Subbans cap hit will be higher. Emelin is severly under rated and should stay with the team. The core of Emelin, Subban, and Gorges are pretty good building blocks.
Kaberle or Markov will need to have decisions made for the next season. I really don't see them having a need for both players. At least they would have 2 years left at the end of this season. The canadiens at least have some really good Dmen in the minors. Nathan Beaulieu will replace Markov and/or Kaberle easily hence why I'm thinking trading one of those two players away either in the last year of their deal or the year before would be more benefitial to the team.
Quick side note for funny reasons. They have a dman named Jarred Tinordi in their system. Dude's a beast. 6'7 212. He is the big powerful Dman they want. He's going to be 20 next month and will be either playing for the Canadiens next year or their AHL team. If they trade him away I will laugh.
They don't need to go through a complete rebuild and restructering like their fans seem to think they do. They have the goalie and and they have a solid backend coming up. They just need to get some forwards that will do something and not over pay them. This may take a while but they have enough in place to really turn the culture and play around in a short period of time and not have to go the Edmonton route.
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