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Around The League - 2024-25 Regular Season

WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
We won the trade, despite what the Subban fans who hated it just because it was Subban think. Nashville got to the finals for a lot of reasons, none of which had much to do with Subban, who was a second pair guy for them. But without Weber the Habs don't go to the finals in 2021. His presence, while not as flashy as PK's, was more impactful.
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Deal was a wash

Habs made the wrong PK trade
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
It was a wash...until Poile came out and called it his biggest regret.
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PK had better impact years than Weber

Weber was a stabilizing force and better defender

Shocked PK`s career hit the shits overnight

Nero had the chance to reset the team with a different trade but foolishly decided to go all in with Weber
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
Yeah, but we have a shit ton of defensemen and forwards who don't score. Shouldn't there be room for at least one hot dog who can score 40 goals while playing no defense?
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Habs need the right top 6 to move forward

Zegras for me is not the right player on a near 6 mil cap for 2 more years

Dach has injury issues , Newhook may not have right ceiling

Dont need another maybe who is soft
 
TheCountofMonteCristo said:
Remember when some people questioned whether we would have kept 15 instead of Nick?

Well Judas has a whopping 18 points in 50 games, is on the fourth line now and hasn't scored a goal since December nor gotten a point since Jan 15 iirc.

The man is playing himself out of the league
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There was people questioning that?
 
Sometimes you can see some GMs that just had some bad luck, they had contending teams, went for it, couldn't get over the hump and then the team started going downhill. That's at least understandable.

And then you have Kekalainen, who has just been matter of fact terrible at his job. Whether it was trading for pending UFA Duchene and losing Panarin & Bobrovsky for nothing while being an eight or seventh seed (I can't remember) that lost in the second round,or it was giving Erik Gudbransson a 4 x $4M contract when nobody wanted him (as evidence of him being on 6 different teams in 4 seasons), trading Josh Anderson for what amounted to basically nothing, hiring Mike Babcock only to fire him two months later, mostly unimpressive drafting, etc. He's a guy that was a really good European scout and the scouting was never all that good in Columbus. Red flag.

For the Duchene/Panarin/Bobrovsky fiasco, I can't help but think that was ownership telling him to dive head first and try to win. No sane hockey mind would have done it, but still, that was 6 years after he got the job and the team had been going nowhere.

To his credit, though, trading Seth Jones to Chicago was a very shrewd move. However, that cap space saved has been pointless, and all those draft picks they acquired have turned up a less than reasonable outcome, David Jiricek TBD, and Jiricek is apparently fed up.

Being an NHL GM must be fucking fun, man. You're almost guaranteed two contracts, even if you're not good at your job.
 
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