2024 Offseason Habs Thread -- news, musings, whatnot

[angusyoung]

Chris Nilan just got married. Love is in the air in Montreal. Congrats Knuckles!

Was he not already married to Jamie?

 

[Scintillating10]

Price's cap is basically unspendable before the season unless other players are starting the year on IR like Dvorak last year. Good luck finding a player that is willing to attend camp on a PTO and only sign a contract after Price goes on regular season LTIR. Bergie, the gift that keeps giving!

Allowed to go 10% over in summer

 

[Beer and Chips]

Was he not already married to Jamie?

Don't know just saw the notice of him marrying in Hawaii.

 

[angusyoung]

Don't know just saw the notice of him marrying in Hawaii.

Guess they were never married till now as Jamie is from the big island,so it must be her. Good for them!

 

[Miller Time]

I think he is more than capable of increasing his tally by an additional 10 goals.

He's gone through something similar before in his final season with cbj, and he bounced back just fine. No reason he can't do the same this year.

I thought the same thing heading into last year....

Instead he dropped by 12 goals and "increased" his plus / minus by 10 (& not the good increase )

Hope your optimism is rewarded better than mine lol

 

[HABitual Fan]

Allowed to go 10% over in summer

Yes, but must be compliant by opening day before Price goes on in season LTIR. That is why I said you need someone to go on regular IR like Dvorak was last season in order to pass the cap limit.

 

[The Real Timo]

Not sure if cancelling cable for the summer I don’t watch baseball… Maybe for the golf but also I should just get out more.

Outside is overrated. There are people. It’s not good.

 

[Naslundforever]

Outside is overrated. There are people. It’s not good.

I got a fitbit, fancy asics shoes, went for two jogs along the canal, hurt my calf and I’m right back here watching the WHL. Way overrated. Some of the people looked good though not gonna lie.

 

[JianYang]

I thought the same thing heading into last year....

Instead he dropped by 12 goals and "increased" his plus / minus by 10 (& not the good increase )

Hope your optimism is rewarded better than mine lol

What would he be rebounding from in the prior year though?

He had a 25 goal pace. I don't think there is a whole lot more there. Heck, that would be on the high end of what I'm thinking in terms of a rebound this upcoming season.

 

[Miller Time]

What would he be rebounding from in the prior year though?

He had a 25 goal pace. I don't think there is a whole lot more there. Heck, that would be on the high end of what I'm thinking in terms of a rebound this upcoming season.

Fair.
I thought that the injury subdued his first full year with MSL & was optimistic that he had 30goals in him and a .5ppg pace...

That he regressed in a full, relatively healthy 2nd season in this environment tells me he may well be another Rene Bourque... 1 step away from being out of the league.

 

[Treb]

I find it weird no one got any info on Davidson, Guindon, Tourigny and Nurmi.

We can guess at the decision, but at this point I would expect someone to have said something on some of them.

 

[MSLs absurd thighs]

It's too bad we have a plethora of bottom-6 players (some of whom are overpaid) already.

Because there's a guy named Dakota Joshua this summer who's expected to hit the UFA market and who in my opinion is the ultimate bottom-6 player on a good team. I learned to know him in the playoffs, everytime I watched Canucks games he stood out. Big banging body who plays the game the right way and who can chip in offensively.