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Habs Season Thread: 2024-25 Regular Season

I was joking about drafting top 5 next season. There will, barring serious injuries, actually be a second line next season, I believe. HuGo have a non-patchwork plan in place and it appears that Geoff Molson is on board with it. The team has not been gutted, it lacks some higher end talent, but that’s coming, and it lacks depth, which is why Dach’s injury was so impactful. I think HuGo have done an excellent job to date, other than passing on Michkov, but I understand their reasons for doing so. They have also said that they intend on being competitive as of next season. Let’s see. But the mess that MB left is ridiculous. He should never get an NHL GM’s job again.
 
GrandWazoo said:
He did not, but he had barely any assets to work with.
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Teams are capped out now , much harder navigating the ship with a hard cap and no longer team friendly contracts

Hugo had a developing Suzuki , a midget one trick pony scorer and 3/4 trash roster
 
Krustchev said:
I was joking about drafting top 5 next season. There will, barring serious injuries, actually be a second line next season, I believe. HuGo have a non-patchwork plan in place and it appears that Geoff Molson is on board with it. The team has not been gutted, it lacks some higher end talent, but that’s coming, and it lacks depth, which is why Dach’s injury was so impactful. I think HuGo have done an excellent job to date, other than passing on Michkov, but I understand their reasons for doing so. They have also said that they intend on being competitive as of next season. Let’s see. But the mess that MB left is ridiculous. He should never get an NHL GM’s job again.
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After next season its clearly a gut job from day 1 when they took over
 
You actually need some talent to gut in a gut job.

What talent did we give up?

Hugo traded Petry and Lekky for Matheson, Barron and picks. Matheson is actually an upgrade over Petry
 
It’s a delayed gut job due to CBA constraints.

How do we drop Gallagher and Anderson without taking a debilitating cap penalty? Dvorak and Armia are gone after next year, but we have endure their bad contracts until they are UFAs. And even if they are tradable, the return will suck.

20M tied up in that mess.
 
CH1 said:
You actually need some talent to gut in a gut job.

What talent did we give up?

Hugo traded Petry and Lekky for Matheson, Barron and picks. Matheson is actually an upgrade over Petry
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Toffoli for a first (Mesar). Chiarot for a first (Newhook).
 
GrandWazoo said:
Toffoli wasn’t a dump, it was the best asset he had. A 25ish goals/60ish points scorer on a super team friendly contract. I always felt we didn’t get enough return on that trade.
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I meant yeah, I agree Toffoli trade was a tank move whereas the other trades could be justified as legit hockey moves.

Our biggest assets — Price and Weber — died on us. If they hadn’t expired on us, I wonder which direction the team wound have went
 
CH1 said:
I meant yeah, I agree Toffoli trade was a tank move whereas the other trades could be justified as legit hockey moves.

Our biggest assets — Price and Weber — died on us. If they hadn’t expired on us, I wonder which direction the team wound have went
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That’s an interesting question. But those were some heavy contracts, so it’s possible those assets would have died one way or another.
 
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