10-13-2025, 10:47 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Ontario
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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
I also don't think this is necessarily a steal for Hutson. It's about right. He's a great offensive dman but he's not a great defender. So the question is, can teams win, when they have that much $$$ allocated to a top defender who isn't a complete defender. NYR has the same issue with Alan Fox.
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Don't think cap issues matter much here.
Saw a tweet from JFresh the Habs have Dobson, Hutson, Guhle, Caufield, Suzuki, and Slafkovsky locked up long-term, and by 2030, their cap total should only be about 38 percent of the cap.
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10-13-2025, 10:48 AM
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#22
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Originally Posted by bluejays
No doubt. From a cap perspective I'd guess teams would bend over backwards to get him. I guess we'll never know but it certainly seemed like he only wanted to be in Minny for money. What discount he'd give others, we'd never know, but if available I could imagine a team making other deals to make cap room.
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Kaprizov had a full NTC. He could just nope out of every deal the Wild tried to make. Or provide a very short list - like the Florida teams + the Rangers. So let’s say the Florida teams can’t fit his expected cap in (which would likely be the case), and the Rangers offer Cuyle + 1st + 2nd.The Wild counter with Cuyle + Lafrenier + 1st and the Rangers just shrug and decide to wait and get their guy on July 1.
This isn’t a case of a GM not GMing hard enough. It’s a case of superstar players in small markets having all the leverage if they choose to use it.
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10-13-2025, 10:53 AM
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#23
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Toronto, Ontario
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My bad. The NTC changes things as you pointed out.
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10-13-2025, 11:15 AM
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NOT breaking news
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Cheese
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Hard to say no to 70 mil.
And he'll ve young enough to sign another long term deal.
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10-13-2025, 11:20 AM
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#25
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: sector 7G
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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
I also don't think this is necessarily a steal for Hutson. It's about right. He's a great offensive dman but he's not a great defender. So the question is, can teams win, when they have that much $$$ allocated to a top defender who isn't a complete defender. NYR has the same issue with Alan Fox.
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2nd year player with tons of time to learn to be better in his own end. With the perfect coach to teach him. Love this deal. Kid is on the ice constantly working on his craft.
Habs management looking pretty good recently.
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10-13-2025, 11:29 AM
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#26
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Originally Posted by habernac
2nd year player with tons of time to learn to be better in his own end. With the perfect coach to teach him. Love this deal. Kid is on the ice constantly working on his craft.
Habs management looking pretty good recently.
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He will be somewhat limited defensively until they are able to figure out how to coach him to be taller.
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10-13-2025, 12:29 PM
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#28
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Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: MTL
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Originally Posted by Cheese
why would he sign in Montreal for that long? Ugh. |
Montreal is going to be the next Canadian team to win the cup.
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10-13-2025, 12:54 PM
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#29
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Crash and Bang Winger
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Originally Posted by Mathgod
That's 2.3 Trent Frederics!
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I will never get tired of this joke.
And solid deal for Hutson. Sets the bar for Zayne's deal coming off his ELC, depending on how his first 3 years go.
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10-13-2025, 01:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Funkhouser
Montreal is going to be the next Canadian team to win the cup.
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Could be worse, who knows though, it might be another 20+ years...next Canadian team cup winners might not be born let alone drafted.
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10-13-2025, 02:07 PM
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#31
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Originally Posted by bluejays
Kaprisov's contract looks more mercenary with each day passing. I don't know why Minnesota flubbed that one so badly.
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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
Well their GM is terrible at his job, that is probably one reason.
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I think its related to the general nature of hockey management. The fact of the matter is, these guys are only thinking of the immediate moment or the short-term, the current GMs know full well that when the Bill comes Due, and it always does, they'll be nowhere near to face any consequences so WTF do they care?
They're looking at the 'here and now.'
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Montreal sucks, always has, always will!
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Indeed. French posers.
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10-13-2025, 02:13 PM
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#32
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Austria, NOT Australia
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18.35m for Dobson and Hutson sounds about right. Just thought the allocation would be a bit different.
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10-13-2025, 02:27 PM
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#33
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by bluejays
Have you had smoked meat and Montreal bagels? What about the nightlife? I'd beg to differ (from 20 year old POV, even though I'm far from it)
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Smoked meat, phenomenal!!!
Don't care for bagels in general.
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