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Laval Rocket Thread

I honestly think they’re waiting for two things:

1) Less than 10 games left to avoid the bonus in his contract

2) Hoping to have the playoffs essentially clinched, so there’s less pressure if in fact he makes any mistakes
 
MON4NHLTOR4MLB said:
I honestly think they’re waiting for two things:

1) Less than 10 games left to avoid the bonus in his contract

2) Hoping to have the playoffs essentially clinched, so there’s less pressure if in fact he makes any mistakes
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They’re simply waiting to ship Primeau back to Laval on Sat and replace him w Lindgren, to free up enough cap space thus allowing the use of the last recall on the Hobbit
 
GGpX said:
I mean, if wasn't clear enough already...

The Charlatan doesn't give a **** about prospect development.

He simply doesn't. I have a decade of evidence to support my claim.

I don't want Caufield to play in the NHL this season, the expectations are so ridiculous and he won't come close to living up to them. And the longer we keep him around without playing, the bigger and bigger they'll get.
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If I read comments around the league, it feels like 99% of people don't care about prospect development as every single article I read is clamoring for Caufield to be on the Habs, from fans, analysts to so called experts. Other teams have been calling up their prospects as well but the pressure is different from Montreal.

Personally I just wanted him to have a 2 weeks minimum in Laval and reassess later. But not him being stuck in limbo on the taxi squad, not being able to play and practice in Laval, and not being able to play and barely practice in the NHL.

The problem is we need him and we need him now. I'm already surprised we let him do 2 full years in the NCAA, that's an improvement.
 
Laval only had like what, one game scheduled while the Habs were away... I think that also contributed to it.

Then others were scheduled while the team was already away.
 
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hairnova said:
Laval only had like what, one game scheduled while the Habs were away... I think that also contributed to it.

Then others were scheduled while the team was already away.
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Yeah...the dumb move wasn't putting him on the TS....it was needlessly shuffling a bunch of chairs on the D depth chart on deadline day and handcuffing further moves. Why couldn't Mete be waived a week earlier? That would mean Ouellet could have been called up earlier.

so you save 1 callup right there

and of course, did we need both Merrill and Gustafsson? ...squeezing them both under the cap meant sending down and then calling up Byron and Romanov after the deadline.
 
CH1 said:
Yeah...the dumb move wasn't putting him on the TS....it was needlessly shuffling a bunch of chairs on the D depth chart on deadline day and handcuffing further moves. Why couldn't Mete be waived a week earlier? That would mean Ouellet could have been called up earlier.

so you save 1 callup right there

and of course, did we need both Merrill and Gustafsson? ...squeezing them both under the cap meant sending down and then calling up Byron and Romanov after the deadline.
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The last sentence is beyond comical
 
Sal_Butera said:
They’re simply waiting to ship Primeau back to Laval on Sat and replace him w Lindgren, to free up enough cap space thus allowing the use of the last recall on the Hobbit
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MB said he a definite plan this season for CC two weeks ago ago so I guess we’ll find out soon enough.
 
CH1 said:
Yeah...the dumb move wasn't putting him on the TS....it was needlessly shuffling a bunch of chairs on the D depth chart on deadline day and handcuffing further moves. Why couldn't Mete be waived a week earlier? That would mean Ouellet could have been called up earlier.

so you save 1 callup right there

and of course, did we need both Merrill and Gustafsson? ...squeezing them both under the cap meant sending down and then calling up Byron and Romanov after the deadline.
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Everything is a bit dumb IMO, I get the theory of having him travel with the team to get exposure to the big team and the practice, but I'm not sure it beats having actual developmental practices in the farm. A full week practice under Bouchard to get him ready seems like the better option to me, but he would have been able to play one game, and now 3.

I'm still confused about some of those recalls, was Romanov really saving anything on the cap or it was just to give us an option to send him down?

At this point I want to see Gustafsson instead of Drouin, at least he's a real PP specialist.
 
Bergevin is currently flying by the seat of his pants. Expect more weirdness.

His cap management alone is a fireable offense.
 
GrandWazoo said:
Everything is a bit dumb IMO, I get the theory of having him travel with the team to get exposure to the big team and the practice, but I'm not sure it beats having actual developmental practices in the farm. A full week practice under Bouchard to get him ready seems like the better option to me, but he would have been able to play one game, and now 3.

I'm still confused about some of those recalls, was Romanov really saving anything on the cap or it was just to give us an option to send him down?

At this point I want to see Gustafsson instead of Drouin, at least he's a real PP specialist.
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anytime you send someone down, even a min salary guy, you save a little coin
 
CH1 said:
anytime you send someone down, even a min salary guy, you save a little coin
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Yeah my bad, I guess he trimmed the roster to the minimum possible to save a few coins, yet we still don't have enough cap for Caufield.

It's the same reason why he didn't call up Ouellet before the deadline then, to save on cap.
 
GrandWazoo said:
Yeah my bad, I guess he trimmed the roster to the minimum possible to save a few coins, yet we still don't have enough cap for Caufield.

It's the same reason why he didn't call up Ouellet before the deadline then, to save on cap.
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the other point is why wait till deadline day to waive Mete? calling up Ouellet could easily have occurred before the deadline....there seems to have been a last minute panic about improving d depth
 
Habsy said:
His cap management alone is a fireable offense.
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CH1 said:
the other point is why wait till deadline day to waive Mete? calling up Ouellet could easily have occurred before the deadline....there seems to have been a last minute panic about improving d depth
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He probably tried to trade him until the last minute.
 
GrandWazoo said:
Everything is a bit dumb IMO, I get the theory of having him travel with the team to get exposure to the big team and the practice, but I'm not sure it beats having actual developmental practices in the farm. A full week practice under Bouchard to get him ready seems like the better option to me, but he would have been able to play one game, and now 3.

I'm still confused about some of those recalls, was Romanov really saving anything on the cap or it was just to give us an option to send him down?

At this point I want to see Gustafsson instead of Drouin, at least he's a real PP specialist.
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any update on Petry? i know he returned last night but i could see him being replaced by gusta
 
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