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2025 NHL UFA/Trade Thread

lecoqsportif said:
He was a disappointment this year. Runway starting to get shorter for him as team is looking to take steps forward.
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Antoine Roussel had a great comment about it on the Sortie De Zone podcast a few months back, about how Dach hasn’t yet realized that his runway is getting shorter. Got traded once, he’s slowly but surely blowing up his second chance. If he doesn’t turn it around, he’ll get another chance given his high draft profile and then he’ll be out of the league if he doesn’t make the most of those chances.
 
GrandWazoo said:
Antoine Roussel had a great comment about it on the Sortie De Zone podcast a few months back, about how Dach hasn’t yet realized that his runway is getting shorter. Got traded once, he’s slowly but surely blowing up his second chance. If he doesn’t turn it around, he’ll get another chance given his high draft profile and then he’ll be out of the league if he doesn’t make the most of those chances.
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Not sure how a player can be criticized for major injuries… every player would be cautious retuning from major knee injury and when he started pushing it again …he got hurt on the same knee again.

It’s like criticizing Nolan Patrick for not living up to his high draft selection… when it was concussions that derailed his career
 
Sal_Butera said:
Not sure how a player can be criticized for major injuries… every player would be cautious retuning from major knee injury and when he started pushing it again …he got hurt on the same knee again.

It’s like criticizing Nolan Patrick for not living up to his high draft selection… when it was concussions that derailed his career
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You can’t criticize players for injuries, but you can for work ethic. Dach had a full year to recover from his injury last year and by all accounts he showed up out of shape in training camp. That’s on him.

Also after a while, some players are just injury prone. Dach has pretty much been injured every season in his career. Bad luck? Bad shape? Maybe a bit of both.
 
GrandWazoo said:
Antoine Roussel had a great comment about it on the Sortie De Zone podcast a few months back, about how Dach hasn’t yet realized that his runway is getting shorter. Got traded once, he’s slowly but surely blowing up his second chance. If he doesn’t turn it around, he’ll get another chance given his high draft profile and then he’ll be out of the league if he doesn’t make the most of those chances.
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I remember that episode. With the Habs getting better and more ambitious, there will be fewer top 6 roles up for grabs and less patience. Demidov is gonna take up a lot of oxygen and TOI next year and there will be less tolerance for bonehead hockey by veterans.

His one out might be to replace Laine, who I suspect won’t be with the Habs after his contract expires.
 
Rolex said:
I wouldn’t give up on Dach….he’s gonna be a great winger for either Suzuki or Demidov’s line.

I even think Dach works better with Cole-Suzuki than Slaf….eventually Slaf goes on 2nd line with Demidov

And Dach’s cap hit is pretty low for what he can bring playing as a winger for Suzuki….
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I'm okay with keeping Dach provided that he needs er plays center. With or without Dach we need a credible 2C.
 
lecoqsportif said:
I remember that episode. With the Habs getting better and more ambitious, there will be fewer top 6 roles up for grabs and less patience. Demidov is gonna take up a lot of oxygen and TOI next year and there will be less tolerance for bonehead hockey by veterans.

His one out might be to replace Laine, who I suspect won’t be with the Habs after his contract expires.
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At this point, and keep in mind that they both have one more year to change my mind, I'd be more inclined to re-up Laine on a reasonable deal than Dach. Super flawed player but he's been a game breaker for us, and would be on pace for about 35 goals on a full season. Dach has been a vacuum for way too many games.
 
TheCountofMonteCristo said:
Tire is the Canadian spelling
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There's no such thing as "Canadian" English. There's British English and American English. Canadian English isn't a thing. It's just a mish-mash of the two, where we arbitrarily pick and choose which words we're going to spell which way. We spell it "tire" because that's how Americans spell it and most tire manufacturers are US based. We spell it "centre" because that's how it's spelled in French.
 
TheCountofMonteCristo said:
And that is Canadian English, a meshing od the two.
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A vocabulary that no one outside of Canada even recognizes or is aware of.

You obsess over what order the 'r' and the 'e' are placed in a word but don't give a shit about us being annexed and refuse to do the bare minimum to stand up for the country of your birth. Not so much as canceling one single shopping junket to Bellis Fair Mall.

Just bear in mind that ICE is also detaining white people now.
 
Sal_Butera said:
Not sure how a player can be criticized for major injuries… every player would be cautious retuning from major knee injury and when he started pushing it again …he got hurt on the same knee again.

It’s like criticizing Nolan Patrick for not living up to his high draft selection… when it was concussions that derailed his career
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You blame the fools who drafted him
 
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