We cannot prevent a heart from loving, but Batinse, you have to cut the cord at some point with several players. It is unthinkable for the Canadian to think to have an aspiring team to anything if you pay your trios 3 and 4 twice as expensive as the other clubs.
Yes, the Canadian was much better than expected. There are lots of positive.
But several changes are essential and the next step is to avoid too much of a snack for some players, let them go and improve differently.
It does not date from yesterday. We are very attached to our players in Montreal when the atmosphere is good. We love them too much for nothing when it’s okay. And we hate them too much for nothing when it goes bad. There, it is fine, so each player seems to have become irreplaceable. Even Marc Bergevin seemed to have this disease when it was time to extend the contract of certain players.
I have heard several supporters explain how much I had to keep Christian Dvorak, who will become free as air. His next contract may oscillate between $ 2.5 and $ 3 million per year.
There have been many flowers for Joel Armia because of its digital disadvantage efficiency. No! It may earn about $ 2 million per year.
The Evans -Armia duo recurrences in numerical inferiority –
Too much money
Imagine that Trios number 3 and 4 are formed by Evans, Armia, Gallagher, Anderson, Evans and Newhook next year: this totals $ 22.25 million with estimated wages.
We agree that it makes no sense. It’s too much. Trios 3 and 4 of the capital cost $ 13.5 million. For Vegas, it’s $ 13.9 million. Jets are $ 12.4 million.
-This year, the Canadian paid $ 24.5 million for Trios 3 and 4.
No team can hope to earn the Stanley Cup by giving so much money to these depth players. And that’s where the Canadian is returned. To make this transition.
Emil Heineman will have to be just capable, but good on a third or fourth line. Owen Beck will have to be able to do the same for a long time. In doing so, management will have money to improve the first two trios.
The proof
When the panthers won the Cup last year. They had superVers, of course. But the price to pay was to have several players of support with small wages: Eetu Luostarinen pocked $ 1.5 million, Kevin Stenlundi earned $ 1 million. Same thing for Ryan Lomberg and Steven Lorentz.
The champions of the previous year, Vegas, had Mike Amadio at $ 762,500, Brett Howden at $ 1.5 million, William Carrier at $ 1.4 million and Keegan Kolesar at $ 1.4 million.
In 2022, when the avalanche raised the cup, they had Logan O’Connor and Nico Sturm at $ 725,000, Darren Helm and Andrew Cogliano at $ 1 million.
The proof is in the Pouding, it is quite obvious.
If Dvorak or Armia want to accept wages of less than $ 2 million, it is worth it. Otherwise, it’s over. CH management must absolutely lower the salary impact of the 3e et 4e trios.
Add these savings to a potential repurchase of Patrick Laine’s contract and, there, I think it will be fascinating to watch Kent Hughes this summer.
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