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By: mjms

mjms — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 20:54:46 +0000

The habs have to continue investing in their young players. They should avoid re-signing Johnson or Book unless they come at a sigtnificant bargain and focus instead on Chipchura, Kostastsyn, Grabowrski, etc... Bring them up, thay can't do worse.

The same on D with Emelin.

They will only be able to have max flexibility on the cap if they stop looking for stop gap measures on FA. FA signing should be made mostly for impact players not fringe players.

I.e First line center, 1 or 2 D-man, starting goalie, ect....

By: Maxvince

Maxvince — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 14:44:54 +0000

Here what I hope happen this summer:
Higgins, plekanec, ryder, Johnson, Markov, Komisarek, lapierre will be re-sign. If we trade Kovalev that would be good. we rebuy the contract of Samsonov, and the line-up look like this:

Lw                  Center           Rw
Higgins            ?????            Kovalev (if can't trade him)
Latendresse     Koivu            Ryder
Kostytsin          Plekanec       Johnson
Begin              Lapierre         Murray

           Defence
Markov        Komisarek
Bouillon       Dandenault
Streit           Georges

        Goalie
Huet
Halak

Now with all the money we save with Bonk, Sauray, Samsonov, Niinimaa, Abby, Downey out. We can put offer on the table for player like Briere (if he is available), Gomez or Datsyuk.

This is just for me, if we trade Kovalev for probebly nothing, we can offer something to Ryan Smith.

By: Shawn84

Shawn84 — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:43:44 +0000

Quick over view current team salary is $41,235,607.00

Bonk will not be back so $41,235,607.00 - 2,394 000 = 38,841,607 million

then ninnima wont be back - 2,508 000 = 36,333,607 million

Abby won't be back - 1,900,000 = 34,433,607

Downey won't be back - 475,000 = 33,958607

So now we take away ther remaining UFA and RFA salaries

UFAs

Mike Jonhson 1.9 million(won't be back too many kids coming up)

Sheldon Souray 2.432 million

Andrei Markov 2 million

RFAs

Michael Ryder 2.2 million

Christopher Higgins 672,980

Alexander Perezhogin 627,000

Tomas Plekanec 450,000

Mike Komisarek 946,827

Total of 11,228,807

So 33 958 607 - 11 228 807 = 22 729 863 million

suggestive salaries for 2007-2008

Higgins(should double in salary) = 2 million(for 3 years)

Plekanec (will replace bonk) = 1 million (maybe 1.5)

Komisarek(long term needed) = 2 million (3 years)

Ryder(?) = 2.2 million(1 or 2 years) how can you justify a raise when your stats are lower than the previous year, points and +/-.

Perezhogin(will be back) = 1 million(2 years) still in a learning process, shows some flash's of brilliance.

Sheldon = 5 million (2-3 years)

Markov = 4 million(give him 5 if he signs long term4-5 years)

sub-total = 17.2 million

new team salary = 17.2 + 22,729,863 = 39,929,863

that leave's us only 6-7 million towards the cap, which in my opinion is not enough.

My speculation, on draft day expect souray to get traded for a draft picks or players. Bob kept him because he believed in making the playoffs.

So if we don't get players that saves 5 million + 6 million = 11 million available to take a run at a first line center, and a solid D man who can play defence.

i dont' mind losing souray scoring touch if we replace it with a forward who can put up twice the points and make's his wingers better!

Feel free to fill in the blank's with UFA's

1st- Samsonov - ? - Kovalev

2nd - higgins - koivu - Ryder

3rd Perezhogin(easily replacable by Kostitsyn) - Plekanec- Latendress

4th Begin - Lapierre - ?

D-men

Markov - Komisarek

Streit - ?

Bouillon - Dandenault/Gorges

Goalies

Huet

Halak/Dannis

By: habsoverserver

habsoverserver — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:32:57 +0000

you mean Montreal will go into the offseason looking to add a scorer??????? would that be the 14th consecutive season that they've been looking for one?

By: Habroller

Habroller — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 10:55:22 +0000

Isn't Kimmo Timonen available as UFA? I would have hime a thousand time before any of those guys…even Souray!

By: rojoke

rojoke — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 08:20:52 +0000

Briere is going to have offers coming out of his inbox.

Zubrus, been there, done that, got the t-shirt.

Forsberg will depend on his playoff performance. I'm assuming that he'll have ankle surgery on his other foot during the off-season.

Datsyuk is looking for way too much money for a guy who's season ends in April. Sure he plays playoff games, he just doesn't produce. The guy hasn't scored a playoff goal since his rookie year in 2002. That could scare a lot of teams away.

One defenseman I've wanted to see come to Montreal for a while has been Derek Morris. He's very good in his own end, is a physical presence, and has a pretty good shot. He's not going to pile up the points on the PP like Souray does, but maybe that production could be picked up Markov and the forwards.

I really believe that Gainey will try to make some off-season moves, possibly involving Samsonov and Kovalev. He's got two first round picks, maybe he can use one of those and a player to pick up an RFA from another team, or take advantage of a team wanting to move up to get someone they like.

By: Rico420

Rico420 — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 06:29:51 +0000

Does anyone else remember that Zubrus played three years in Montreal and he kinda stunk up the joint when he played here?

Perreault will end up back in Phoenix, they seem like the only franchise he's ever played for who actually appreciated him, and was really the only player on their roster they could get something back in return for that would help them in the present or near future..big costs this year in Rental players I still don't understand.

Anyway..didn't Brewer resign with the Blues?

By: damien_ralentass

damien_ralentass — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 06:08:55 +0000

Has for Bonk and Jonhson I think that it will depend on the salary given to Markov and Souray if they manage to sign them. Bonk will most likely be replaced by Plekanec but hopefully maybe they can sign Jonhson.

By: damien_ralentass

damien_ralentass — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 06:08:09 +0000

I think for most of it you’re right except for Souray and Markov. The agent player Perno commented on RDS a few days ago that he expected Souray to get between 5 and 6 mil. The comparable player for Souray is Brain McCabe. They both play a good game offensively, they both have a physical presence and they’re both a liability on defense. Brian McCabe get’s actually 5.75 mil each year until 2010-2011. Souray will probably get something close to that. I know what you all gone say. That much money for a guy that is a liability defensively is a nightmare and in a perfect world I would agree with you. But the thing is right now he is the second more productive defenseman on the league behind Lidstrom. The problem is if he was any better defensively he would not be compared to Brain McCabe but most likely to Pronger in which case he would get the maximum accorded by the new CBA. The reason he will get between 5 and 6 mil is because he is not a very good player defensively otherwise he would get the maximum. Has for Markov he would also get the maximum if he was as good as Souray offensively. He always plays against the best players and he’s one of the best for the first pass. That’s why he will also get between 5 and 6 mil! You better get use to it, those two are going to cost a lot of money.

By: Les-Habitants

Les-Habitants — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:21:48 +0000

Judging from what Gainey has done in the past, with the exception of Ryder, I don't see Higgins or Plekanec getting 1.7mil. I was Higgins and Plekanec both around 1.2 for 1 yr.