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GDT - Game 39 Canadiens @ Panthers - 12/29/19 - 7:00EST

Rolex said:
I wouldn’t trade Armia....why would you wanna trade a big winger with great stick handling, and an awesome wrist shot ? And he’s young
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Hes 26. If the habs have a 3-5 year rebuild he will be 29-31. That's when players start their decline. So might as well sell high now because truth be told, this group ain't winning squat, than sell later as his value starts to fall along with his performance.
 
GrandWazoo said:
My point is I believe he is giving himself flexibility to take advantage of the expansion draft situation. With so few contracts needed to be protected, he will have the occasion to acquire a few contracts for cheap while other teams are struggling to come up with their protection list.

Next year will be very telling for the direction of the team. 5 UFAs, 4 RFAs, some influx of new players like Romanov, Brook and Caufield, maybe a few others, our existing young guys like KK, Suzuki, Poehling, Primeau will have more experience. I think it will become clear during the season who is expandable or not.

I'm expecting Danault, Arnia and Gallagher to be retained while Tatar and Petry will probably move.

I wish we would move away from Price already but that's a whole other story.
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We have a ton of flexibility , why not cash in now on a Petry for example

Worth more now since the team is getting 2 playoffs out of him .

I can’t see all players being retained with some leaving for nothing
 
Habsy said:
While I think he should be traded at deadline while having a good year, I don’t think the Habs will trade Tatar and break up one of the top 5 on 5 lines in the league.

I wish they’d just tank already. This mushy middle crap happening again this year is annoying.
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It’s too late to tank when your in the playoff race . If we crap out by the deadline and are 7-10 points out then the narrative changes .

The problem is 8 years later our roster moves are only designed to keep us in the dreaded middle.
 
Altair said:
Hes 26. If the habs have a 3-5 year rebuild he will be 29-31. That's when players start their decline. So might as well sell high now because truth be told, this group ain't winning squat, than sell later as his value starts to fall along with his performance.
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You can’t move everyone all at once . Need to retain some vets to work with our kids

Full rebuilds are long , painful and may never work if you leave yourself with no framework

You have to move players who will not be part of the retool in 3-5 years that have value now and Tatar and Petry are prime candidates .

Retooling on the fly is the only way to go . You do it in stages accumulating assets then phasing out more vets and keep adding .

Pissed at the many players we didn’t trade over a decade when in the end we got nowhere keeping them .
 
Rolex said:
yet you keep investing even more by writing on this Habs board
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I don't need to watch games to write on the board.

I happen to have price in my fantasy team, (at least until I can trade him away, waste of a 3rd round pick) so I can keep track of how the habs are doing without needing to watch the games.

And I've been writing on this board for a long time. I don't know why not wasting my time watching shitty bubble teams would change that.Screenshot_20191231-110614_Samsung Internet.jpg
 
GEEMAN said:
We have a ton of flexibility , why not cash in now on a Petry for example

Worth more now since the team is getting 2 playoffs out of him .

I can’t see all players being retained with some leaving for nothing
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I don't disagree, the dilemma for MB is that trading him is pretty much giving up on the season. Which, truth be told, I don't mind, but his boss might. Might be easier to do when a guy like Josh Brook is ready to take over. That's the problem he had with the lack of prospects in the past, there is nobody to help push the veterans out, so he ends up sticking with it.

I always thought that this season was a throwaway anyway, it's the next 3-4 seasons that gets interesting.
 
GrandWazoo said:
I don't disagree, the dilemma for MB is that trading him is pretty much giving up on the season. Which, truth be told, I don't mind, but his boss might. Might be easier to do when a guy like Josh Brook is ready to take over. That's the problem he had with the lack of prospects in the past, there is nobody to help push the veterans out, so he ends up sticking with it.

I always thought that this season was a throwaway anyway, it's the next 3-4 seasons that gets interesting.
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if we are out of it by the deadline we might be big sellers
 
GEEMAN said:
if we are out of it by the deadline we might be big sellers
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Maybe, we don't really have any valued pending UFA on the roster, so there is no easy decisions. I would like to see MB shop Tatar and Petry, just to see if there is an offer he can't refuse, but he won't feel obliged to take whatever he can.

The only UFA that could interest some teams is Thompson but he won't be worth much more than a 5th.
 
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