Travis Moen Eval Request (Habs Fan)

Hey Duck fans, Habs fan just wanting to get your take on Travis Moen. I've seen him play some, but wanted to hear from the source what you all think of the guy. Thanks.

Depends on which one you got. If you got the 06-07 Moen you got one heck of a 3rd liner. If you got the 08-09 Moen (Ducks version, don't know how he did with SJ) you got tougher and more physical but less effective defensively.

We pretty much all liked him but not many (i guess) would have given him 1.5 per year.

Hope he does well for you guys.

Great locker room/Pk guy. Physical and brings it every game.

Has a decent shot but don't expect him to big offensive numbers. Great forechecker and decent defensively, but not a shut down guy either. Battles hard in the corners.

Mown is a workhorse during the summer he works on the farm. My favorite memory is his one punch blind knockout.

If you can get him to go to the net, he'll do wonders as a 3rd liner.

I think he's a little overrated defensively. He's decent (better than decent at PK), but certainly the worst of the Ducks' shutdown line. But he was a great fit with that line because he's a hard worker, a good hitter, and a great forechecker.

He was money in the playoffs though. I think we calculated it at one point, Moen wasthe one who stepped it up the most (by far) in goals/game compared to his regular season numbers (I think the seasons on question were 06, 07, and 08). Kind of like Franzen. He goes to the net and scores goals that way, and this style succeeds more in the playoffs than the regular season.

1.5 seems a little much though.

Depends on which one you got. If you got the 06-07 Moen you got one heck of a 3rd liner. If you got the 08-09 Moen (Ducks version, don't know how he did with SJ) you got tougher and more physical but less effective defensively.

We pretty much all liked him but not many (i guess) would have given him 1.5 per year.

Hope he does well for you guys.

That's the best summary of Moen. I was hoping that'd he come back to the Ducks for 900k. Anything more then that is overpayment because he doesn't do one thing extremely well to warrant 1.5 million. His best attribute on the Ducks was his hitting and mean streak. He was up in star players face all night. He's pretty crappy offensively, and doesn't do anything special on the PK. I say he's a good defensive player, but not great. The biggest knock against him IMO, is that there are a lot of players who can do what he does at half the price.

If you get the motivated Moen that was with us during the cup year, he will almost be worth that contract, but he still would be overpaid. If you get last year's Moen, you will be wondering the whole year, "why did we sign this guy for 1.5 for three years, when someone in the AHL could be just as effective."

The best scenario for Moen would be to play on another shutdown line, or a 4th line with a sniper who can turn it up on occasion (Christensen). If he plays motivated he can be a monster forechecker who could make the 4th line dangerous with a sniper there to pick up the turnovers he would cause.

Bottom line: You will love the player, but you will quickly realize that he is overpaid, and you will notice that someone either on the team or in the AHL could do his job just as well for half the price.

He's slow and doesn't score, but he'll stick up for his teammates. 1.5 is a pretty big overpayment.

He's slow and doesn't score, but he'll stick up for his teammates. 1.5 is a pretty big overpayment.

Well it's not THAT much of an overpayment, maybe 300-500K max.

Great lockerroom guy, never takes a shift off, works his ass off, good corner-scrum player but simply lacks the hands to ever become a 2nd line player.

Well it's not THAT much of an overpayment, maybe 300-500K max.

Great lockerroom guy, never takes a shift off, works his ass off, good corner-scrum player but simply lacks the hands to ever become a 2nd line player.

the years are where the overpayment comes in.

4th liner.

Good luck guys, you've got a great man in Saku Koivu

LOL at Duck fans turning on him as soon as he leaves

He is a solid 3rd line checking forward, He was the muscle on our Stanley Cup checking line and is great to use against power forwards. Not the best fighter but will always back up a teammate. Skates well, go to the net hard, and a clutch playoff performer. Reasonable contract and his attributes exactly fits what Montreal needed. He did not "suck" his line played worse because Pahlsson was hurt most of the year and when he played looked beat up + R. Neids was useless
I wish we kept him but wish him well with the Canadians

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did they really pay him $1.5 M per? he's a good forechecker, but he's not that great in his own zone nor does he have much of a scoring touch and he doesn't play center.

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LOL at Duck fans turning on him as soon as he leaves

He is a solid 3rd line checking forward, He was the muscle on our Stanley Cup checking line and is great to use against power forwards. Not the best fighter but will always back up a teammate. Skates well, go to the net hard, and a clutch playoff performer. Reasonable contract and his attributes exactly fits what Montreal needed. He did not "suck" his line played worse because Pahlsson was hurt most of the year and when he played looked beat up + R. Neids was useless
I wish we kept him but wish him well with the Canadians

Who is turning on him? Seriously, I think most of us wanted him back, but not for 1.5 million. That's too much for him. 900k was the perfect salary for what he brought. I wish him well, but he's still overpaid.

I think one of the questions has to be, what role is he going to play in Montreal? After he won the Cup, it really looked like he was chafing under the shutdown line role that he wanted. In my opinion, this is one of the reasons his defensive game dropped. He took risks offensively, and that hindered his defensive game.

He's a good player. Decent skater (nothing special, but strong on his skates), hard-working, and he will definitely stand up for his teammates. He's a team player. I just think he wants to stretch his legs a bit and try to be more than just a shutdown forward. Will he be able to? I couldn't tell you. He has some skills, but not in a top six kind of way.

The price tag is a bit much, but I think some of that has to do with how I (and Ducks fans in general, I guess) see him in Anaheim. We see him as a shutdown forward, and he's not someone who anchors the line. Maybe in Montreal he'll be able to accomplish more. He should be a good player for you, and if it turns out he's overpaid, it won't be in a big way.

I'm going to echo the statement that 1.5 million is overpayment for him. Moen's a good skater and is a good defensive forward. He's ideal to pair off against the opposing team's top lines (as long as he's not the only defensive forward on that line), and he certainly isn't afraid to get his nose dirty. You probably won't get a whole lot of goals out of him, but that's not really why you have him on your team. All in all, you guys will probably like him, I still wish he was a Duck in all honesty.