Habs Season Thread: 2024-25 Regular Season

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Check out Gadget player vs Quim Hughes skating metrics.

View: https://x.com/HabsOnReddit/status/1877111009619378276?s=19

We hate Hughes. Remember?

 

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They won’t jeopardize a potential playoff run (even if just one round) for a couple of picks, unless maybe first rounders. We already have 9 picks in the first 4 rounds this year.

We’ll see how the next two months play out.

Picks for next year would be preferred.

 

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And somehow i keep hearing the Lane is an average skater nowhere in the same class as Hughes

True.

This is excellent news imo because I bought into that narrative.

I will say that Hughes seems more effortless but if they results are the same.... Who cares.

 

[Habsy]

They won’t jeopardize a potential playoff run (even if just one round) for a couple of picks, unless maybe first rounders. We already have 9 picks in the first 4 rounds this year.

We’ll see how the next two months play out.

They'll stockpile future picks.

 

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And somehow i keep hearing that Lane is an average skater nowhere in the same class as Hughes

All those skating evaluators / wanna be scouts on hockey message boards are a noisy bunch.

 

[GrandWazoo]

They'll stockpile future picks.

If they do sell assets, I agree.

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

So don’t waste any brain cells thinking about Elias Pattersson coming here. Ain’t happening.

At $11.6 million for 7 more years I should bloody well hope not.

 

[TheCountofMonteCristo]

do we really need to get any more draft picks? Don't we have like 15-20 over the next 2 years?

 

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do we really need to get any more draft picks? Don't we have like 15-20 over the next 2 years?

No. We have 21.

Picks and the prospects from the picks are basically nhl currency. We will need those as we try to improve from playoff team to cup contender.

We could use from 2027 picks.

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

do we really need to get any more draft picks? Don't we have like 15-20 over the next 2 years?

You can never have too many draft picks. They are hard currency.

 

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Jake Evans Trade & Contract Talk: Finding Comparable Contracts

Montreal Canadiens forward Jake Evans is in an excellent position from a career standpoint. Not only is he a versatile, hard-working centre, he’s also in the midst of his most productive season, quite the blessing for an impending free agent. According to Pierre LeBrun, Evans is the type of...

montrealhockeynow.com

 

[Stinky]

Those numbers seem about right