Let’s GO! The Montreal Canadiens Have To Get This DONE Right Away!

Let’s GO! The Montreal Canadiens Have To Get This DONE Right Away!

Let’s get into the Montreal Canadians now a little bit more uh into the weeds if you don’t mind. Let’s talk about some wants and needs. Before we get into that, of course, uh support us by supporting our sponsors at betonline.ag. Uh you can deposit with cryptocurrency. It’s fast, easy, and reliable. VIP rewards, level up bonuses, boosts, and even more. You can bet big if that’s your style with high limits and rebet functionality. And of course, as I’ve been telling you now, the fastest payouts in the space in a trusted space that’s been around for almost three decades. Payouts within minutes and a 50% welcome bonus for new players at betonline.ag. Now, you and I over the course of the last many months now talking about the wants and needs of the Montreal Canadians. And now here we are very much into the thick of the off season before the draft, before uh July 1st and free agency. So, we have some time to get into what we think after a very successful season teamwise, individually, what we think the Montreal Canadians need to get done this off season. So, let’s start there, Marco. The wants and needs of the Montreal Canadians. Um, need number one, let’s start with what they need to tackle right away as soon as they’re ready to get into business once the playoffs, I assume, are over and everyone can start doing some work here. Gary Bman doesn’t like big moves while the NHL playoffs are being done. So the number one need today, what is it for you? Doesn’t like big moves proceeds to announce the NHL’s interest in Atlanta. Just the best. If Gary makes news, Gary can make news. Ken Hughes cannot make news. Ken Hughes can’t trade for Sydney Crosby today and and the NHL is going to love that. You know what I mean? To give you an extreme extreme extreme, which by the way, it’s never going to happen. So let’s stop talking about it. Okay. I also said the Canes weren’t going to make the playoffs this year. So, if you catch my psychology, that’s what I’m doing. So, a need number one, what is it for you? Uh, to me, it has to be a second a second line presence. Yes. Like a true like you need a player that could put up 60 points. Like, that’s unanimous. I think we’re all everybody that pays everyone watching this channel right now. I think we all nod. Yes. The number two guy. Yes. Not necessarily a number two center, right? A num like a like because this is the thing, right? And so this is where I like to bring in the the notion of caution to the tail. You can state that the Canadians need XYZ. It’s unrealistic with the amount of teams that are looking to improve this summer that they fill all those needs. It’s unrealistic. So to me, when you’re looking at what they can do, they need to bolster their second line. Be it a winger, be it a center, bolster the second line, right? figure it out, right? And then you get to free agency and if there’s guys that are left over that could be a stop gap, well then, you know, power to you. Until then, see what’s there. Um, so that’s one. Number two, uh, I feel would be a bonafide top four right shot defenseman. And then number three would probably be a bruising bottom six forward. someone that could take defensive uh they could play in defensive roles but could also really bring the physical uh nature that the Canadians kind of lacked in the playoffs that they’ll need uh in order to win around. Now, they don’t necessarily need to get all these now. In fact, they could probably get some of these at the trade deadline uh if they feel like that player could stick around. Sure. Um so there’s always options, but to me, I think the biggest key point is they have to improve their top six. That yes is undeniable. Yeah. And then you know we’ll see how the Lavalo Rockets playoffs play out right because like right now Logan Mui is playing out of his mind. Correct. Amundo. You know if this can carry over in terms of momentum to next season there’s a chance they decide to retain him and not use him as trade bait and he’s the guy that’s starting on the Canadians third pair next year. Yeah. Right. On the right side instead of David Seavard and or you know you know higher in the lineup depending on how things go at camp. and then they decide to give David Rybacker a little bit more time in Laval, you know, that’s how that process is going to work. So, agreed. Agreed. They could they like the Canadians don’t have a second line center prospect in the pros right now, right? A lot of people are going to point to Michael H and say, well, you know him. And it’s this is the one mistake that the Canadians have made and fans have made time and time again when it comes to band-aid situations. 100%. Michael Hayes may become a second line center. He’s not a blue like like and no disrespect there, but he’s not a blue chip prospect in the sense that he’s a guaranteed second line center. Like he’s 21 years old. He’s still in college. Yeah. When we mean line center, when we mean blue chip second line center, we mean you’re looking at a player that has potential for number one uh center status, but would likely become a number two. Yeah. So, you know, there’s a couple of those in this draft upcoming, right? You look at a Caleb Denier Front Fondell, um, Roger McQueen, guys like that that, you know, would even James Haggins to a degree, like there’s a chance he could become a second line center, you know. So, those are the kinds of guys that you can count on. Whereas Michael Hayes looks to be more like a two middle six, two, three. If things go well, second line center. If things go moderately well, third line center or second line winger, right? So like, but that’s years like he’s year multiple years away from us. At least at least two at least. Yeah, in my mind too, right? So like the thing to consider is you know a lot like I think he deserves more hype than the general consensus is giving him and I think he things need to be a little calmed down amongst half. Yeah. Like honestly, I’ll watch Michael H in Michigan, but like like you and I, we’re talking about like as early as next season, it you know. Well, well, okay, so there’s two ways of looking at this and I think this is where the conversation gets fun. Kent Hughes made it a point during his end of season presser to say it multiple times that they don’t want to bring in a guy that’s going to stop a young player from getting into the lineup. Correct. Now, that’s one thing, but you can never have this is also the same GM that said you can never have too many centers, right? That’s why he acquired Alex Newa because you can never have too many centers. Yeah. And so you move, you have guys that could potentially play center and then you have guys that can play center. If Michael H like if they go and get a second line center and Michael H comes in and he looks like a second line center, then there’s absolutely no problem shifting the other second line center to the wing or vice versa or having three strong centers, you know, one, two, three. Like that’s how cup teams are built. So to me, there’s no problem. But where where I have issue is like waiting for Michael Haye. And I think that’s that’s problematic because there’s a lot that can go wrong. He can get injured. He could become like because like I’ve spoken to him. He’s committed to becoming a center in the NHL. But again, like to do that, you need to be a good centerman at lower levels before you can, you know, and right now he’s trying to figure that out at the NCAA level. So I’m just kind of like, okay, that is their biggest need. So if they go out and trade to for that need, you know, like to me that’s it’s trading is going to be costly, right? And I think like this summer especially, there’s a lot of teams looking for a center. Um, so that I got to tell you, hold on. I got to tell you, like I I don’t know where the fan base is going with what they think is going to happen next season, but there’s part of me that’s like, hold on a minute here. Like yes, they had a great year and they defied all the odds at every turn and became the last team to get into the tournament, but there’s a very real world that’s probably going to exist where they’re going to lose talent uh and experience primarily, right? Experience. Chris Nevorak won a lot of faceoffs. Um was a silent operator, short-handed, and did a lot of heavy lifting. And I’m not so sure both of them, one of them are are going to be back next year. So, like when we talk wants and needs going into 2025, 2026, yes, we can find common ground. Getting the second line more established, more potent, more consistent is number one. But also right up there for me is experience and finding the right players that yes can do what you mentioned not impede the progress block the way of young players that have you know you want young players coming into camp thinking oh man if I do really well I can win a job here. Yeah right. So you want to leave that door partially open but they already have that. Is there a concern that maybe this team might take a step back next year and we need to get people ready for that possibility? Yeah, there is a possibility for it. Um, but on the flip side, I think this is the way I see it. Yeah, this is a team that was basically playing do or die hockey from like December on. Exactly. So, they were gassed. Apologies. They were gassed. And I think the issue is if they are prepared now, physically prepared, conditionally prepared to go through a full season, I think they’re still in the fight for like they’re still a bubble playoff team unless they add a serious piece up front. Yeah. Right. And so where I stand on this is that I feel like if the Canadians would have started last season with the Dawesh U Montbo pairing, they would have been well into the playoffs. They would have it wouldn’t have gone to 82 games. It would have gone to maybe 75. Okay. But at the when you look at, you know, other factors to keep into consideration, right? like David Sevard, bless his career, bless his soul, bless everything he’s done for the game and for the Canadians, was a negative factor on that team from a performance standpoint from basically November to the end of the season. Yeah. And that’s probably due to injury more often than not and, you know, an injury that, you know, got him to seriously consider and eventually lead to retirement. So, I can’t really, you know, think about that. But then you factor in adding a guy like Ivan Demidov. You factor in the growth of the younger players. I don’t necessarily think they’re going to take a step back, but to take a step forward is the is the big problem here, right? They may stagnate next season if they don’t fill one of these needs. And that is on Kent Cubes. Half of it at least preparing that team. And I’ve said this before and I said it again. There was a lot of uh negativity online when they got eliminated from the playoffs and during the playoffs where it was like, “Oh, fire Martine St. Louis or uh this team sucks. You know, they’re going nowhere. They need to get bigger now.” Okay. But you have to understand that team was not built to beat a Stanley Cup playoff team like like the Washington Capitals, right? Correct. Correct. Like when you look at and people like wanted to compare it to 2010. Look at 2010. That was an old ass team. That was an experienced team. Scott Gomez, you know, Gian Cameri, Hammerlick, Space, you know, that was that Planets, that was a very seasoned team. Marov, very very seasoned team. So, when you look at the what the Canad Canadians were the youngest team to ever make the playoffs. Yeah. They’re probably going to be younger next year. Yeah. Well, I mean, when we say probably younger, see, like this is my thing. When we say probably younger, we’re talking about younger because periphery players are leaving the lineup. Yes. 100%. Yes. The core is getting better. Oh, it means nothing. It’s It has zero value in my opinion. The core pulled this team to the playoffs. Correct. Correct. And the core is only getting better. 100%. And then you’re adding a year of experience like Lane Hudson at the beginning of the season versus Lane Hudson at the end of the season were two very different players. 100%. You’re adding a Demodv that just got all this playoff experience and is going to be training his mind off this summer, right? Like there there is pieces there that are going to get them into playoff contention, but if they want to ensure then they have to cover they have to they have to get a competent second line. Not a second line that is going to be benched, you know, in the end of a third period when you’re defending a lead. No, consistency is key. A second line that you’re not afraid to play on the road. Correct. That’s why, you know what, like we could talk wants and needs and everything else. I I want to see this team get bigger. I want to see them get a little bit nastier, right? And that’s why Logan Mayu and David Rybacker are I think are to be dramatic vital. They’re vital to see this team to another level. You need you can make the same comments about uh Florian Jackie for example, right? I think that a guy like Florian Jack eyee developing into that mean crash and bang, you know, offensive fourthline center, third line center if he if he, you know, he surprises is essential for the Canadians because that’s the kind of player that teams trade first round picks for, right? So that’s what I’m saying is like they just need to continue to develop that process. Uh you can follow Marco De Mo on X MN Demo and check him out at RG Media where they’re hiring. So, if this is something you want to explore in terms of a career, a pivot perhaps, here’s what they call an opportunity. Thank you, Marco. Thank you guys. Have a good one.

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