Habs Season Thread: Offseason 2025

[GEEMAN]

So that Habs have $19M AAV to work with this summer as UFA approaches.

they dont need to do anything to use 19 mil

Get your stop gap 2C and keep drafting to add to the pipeline

Let others do the fuckery moves on July 1

 

[MON4NHLTOR4MLB]

Ya why the rush to spend on garbage free agents or bad contracts from other teams? Draft and develop, get some stop gaps and then spend when you can get that unreal fit and player

 

[Sal_Butera]

they dont need to do anything to use 19 mil

Get your stop gap 2C and keep drafting to add to the pipeline

Let others do the fuckery moves on July 1

To poach Tavares for 2-3 will cost $8M-$9M AAV - will have to be a significant overpayment

 

[GEEMAN]

To poach Tavares for 2-3 will cost $8M-$9M AAV - will have to be a significant overpayment

JT isnt going to la belle province

 

[Sal_Butera]

JT isnt going to la belle province

If he doesn’t resign w Make Beliefs, IMO he’s going to highest bidder

 

[GrandWazoo]

Why not just free up $10.5M cap space instead of LTIR & use that $20M this off-season ?

Cap space is better than LTIR

 

[GEEMAN]

If he doesn’t resign w Make Beliefs, IMO he’s going to highest bidder

Yup and it wont be Hugo

 

[Habsy]

There’s no point in giving up assets to move the ltir though

 

[GEEMAN]

There’s no point in giving up assets to move the ltir though

bingo

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

If he doesn’t resign w Make Beliefs, IMO he’s going to highest bidder

Which will not be the Habs.

 

[TheCountofMonteCristo]

Which will not be the Habs.

we will be used to drive up the price like with Duchene, Hull, Lapointe, et al

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

I still remember spending almost an entire July 1st afternoon waiting for the "imminent" and "99% certainty" of Hull signing with us, only to find out he had pivoted and signed with Detroit instead...like he had planned to do all along.

 

[hairnova]

View: https://x.com/CanadiensMTL/status/1937934647079649444

 

[Sal_Butera]

There’s no point in giving up assets to move the ltir though

What assets? once Habs pay Price’s $5M bonus on Sept 1, SJS would be on the hook for $2M actual salary majority of it paid by insurance.

The asset to be surrendered will be a 3rd rounder, maybe a 3rd + 4th. Theres no way SJS will fill $53M of unused AAV with the cap rising…

 

[Habsy]

there’s zero point in surrendering anything

 

[Sal_Butera]

Cap space is better than LTIR

View: https://x.com/mndamico/status/1938188011419697489?s=46&t=a3HPp5YfHU2XDo78oSJMFA

 

[AH$$$]

Seeing how things are going on the market, virtually nothing of note is available.

Best course of action is to work on that margins. Replace armia , Dvo and Savard with better versions and call it a summer.

 

[Sal_Butera]

View: https://x.com/stucowan1/status/1938324384306909214?s=46&t=a3HPp5YfHU2XDo78oSJMFA