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Habs Season Thread: 2024-25 Regular Season

GrandWazoo said:
We need to move our young D just to be able to fit all the young D that needs to play, I don't us adding a vet D. We need to get rid of bodies, not acquire new ones.
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Understood. But unless Guhle plays on his wrong side, I’m not convinced we’re set at RHD.
 
lecoqsportif said:
Understood. But unless Guhle plays on his wrong side, I’m not convinced we’re set at RHD.
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Mailloux and Reinbacher and even the one that Sal hates on the third pair.

Cant force a forward with our top pick.

There are stud D in this draft , not sure upfront after Mack , Demidov and Catton
 
He seems unpopular on our site, but for some reason, I don't mind Harris. When not overused.

But what a huge pile of defencemen.
 
I thought he improved during the season, but he still looks a little weak against heavy forechecking. He’s a capable, poised 5-8 d man, and it seems reasonable that he will have some kind of career in the league.
 

View: https://x.com/arponbasu/status/1780711888999096617?s=46&t=a3HPp5YfHU2XDo78oSJMFA
Rebuilds can’t last forever, and while patience is needed to see them through properly, expediting them so that the rot of losing doesn’t set in and poison the atmosphere of the team is an important consideration when you look around the league and see rebuilds that simply don’t end. This is why the Canadiens want to aim for the playoffs as soon as next season, even if their building process is nowhere near complete.
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When Gorton was general manager of the New York Rangers, Artemi Panarin was handed to him on a silver platter as an unrestricted free agent, and it was the city of New York that served as that draw at the time. Whether it’s your city, your history, your weather, your taxation rates, your fan base, every team needs some sort of attraction for talent to choose you over the 31 other teams in the league.

“The style of play that we play, I think it’s encouraging for our team,” Gorton said. “They like playing an offensive, thinking game, and I think it’s going to help us as we move forward as we develop players and acquire players.

“I think Montreal is going to be a place where players are going to want to play, I think we’re hearing that more. I think Marty’s a big part of that, we’re not naïve to think it’s us.”

This is important because of Gorton’s time in New York, because the rebuild there was at roughly the same early phase when they signed Panarin to a seven-year, $81.5 million contract on July 1, 2019, a little over a year after the Rangers sent The Letter to their fans signalling a rebuild and tough times to come.
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“If there’s a free agent out there, a great one that can really help us, we’ll be looking. If there’s a trade, we’ve made a number of trades since we got here that have helped that, moved it along, been the right age players, that’s a different way of doing it. Those are all conversations we’re going to have, this is the day after the season ended, so we’ll go through that. But it’s a team that’s shown us a lot, and I think we’ll spend the summer to figure out if we can move that forward.”
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This has Stamkos written all over it…. I’m convinced they're going to go hard after him & leverage his “mentor” MSL to tuck at emotional purse strings ….whether HuGo are successful at pulling it off? Who knows?
 
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