Matt’s take on the Habs acquisition of goaltender Jake Allen from the St. Louis Blues
To Habs: Jake Allen, 2022 7th round pick
To Blues: 2020 3rd & 7th round picks
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Love it, NB boy also pretty happy about this!
Jake Allen has Been a blues?
I love this trade! I called it a while back in a video!
Finally after how many seasons Bergavin relises price needs support . I guess it’s never too late but fuck I feel like this needed to happen sooner
The cap isn't a big deal. Allen isn't here for long. The main problem is the scoring and the defensive play overall of the players. Price covers up these issues a lot. I think the main problem with our backups was that they aren't as good as Price… Meaning what Price makes up for the team is too big. I know Allen's good. But I'm skeptical he'll be much different than some of the recent backups we've had. And that's simply because I believe that a goalie can only be as good as the defense let's him be. If Allen somehow covers up the issues, than paying 15M for two goalies is a cheap way of fixing the team's gaps. But I'm not convinced he'll be able to cover up these issues.
1. Goal scoring forward ____ ?
2. Backup Goalie Allen ✅
3. LD ___ ?
4. Size ?
I can't wait for the next move
Not a bad move, just hope this leads to a bigger move .. very happy they are not going to sit on the cap space again this season
Youre gonna need a new shirt if that #13 is Domi. Guy is getting shipped.
So happy for the Habs. Moving in the right direction. Finished up with a much better season than expected. May the Lord bless and keep you all.
Hopefully more trades to come, needs some more offensive, hopefully other high cap teams need to dump
Perfect G2. Now three things: No issue here using draft picks or prospects (they are assets, and most won't ever play for the CH) in order to improve the team NOW (think 31-6-26 not forever). Second, they might be closer than we all thought. But clearly, need to improve size/scoring on the W. Look at those goals in the playoffs (as usual): 2-3 deep screen in front of goalie, deflections, ugly! CH wings are simply swatted away by D-men, or not part of their DNA. Third, Allen. Now will CJ still play CAREY, like 20 or lat 22 games (temptation!), should the Habs be in some knda race]? CJ said it before, he's there to win.
This will help price so much. You saw how well he played in the bubble after the rest.
Nice optimism! Allen has a ton of experience and definitely a notch up from say those "Kinkaid" types.. There's now no rush to push Primeau! Let that guy marinate down in the "A" for a more immense amount of valuable grooming!!! When you see Primeau in the top 3 goalies routinely down there, then he'll be very close for bigger minutes…But hey Scotian, see you with that "13" t-shirt on lol ironically, could you give a little break down on the Domi situation??? I'd like a player back for sure rather than picks…But what could we get for him? Realistically…It always seems, when we go looking for a FA or RFA, the asking rate is a top end prospect or high pick and/or a top 6 roster player…But when we have trade bait, we can't get shit back from any team!!! Usually it's a journey man, an ungroomed prospect on his last legs or a bag of pucks….We made out very decent with the patches deal, vegas' game suits patches needs to excel and it's great!! Put patches on grinding dump and chase team he'll be as exposed as a high society centerfold 😂😂😂 just saying lol you get the point…
Now time to trade Domi for Johnny Gaudreau
Love the trade 😊 we needed a good back up for a long time.
Habs are his fav team growing up
Finally, a quality back up, and local guy to boot, being from my hometown of Fredericton, NB, so doubly excited, the whole town is excited.
By product of this trade, it frees up money for St Louis to resign Pietrangelo, and screws the Leafs out of possibly getting him! LOL
Allen (2.50 career goals against) is as good as Price (2.49 career goals against). Canadiens 1971-1979 won 6 cups. They had Ken Dryden (2.24), but they also had goal scorers. So what we really need is a couple of 30-50 a year goal scorers. Check back to when Habs were winning cups. Lemaire, Shutt, Lafleur, The Big M. These guys put the puck in the net. Management can't be cheap. Spend some money and get 3 or 4 young high scoring French Canadians or Russians like Ovechkin. Keep Gally, Price and Allen. Get rid of all the forwards. Just keep Gally. He's tenacious.
Leafs spend 30+million on three guys and they didn't even pass the qualifying round 🙄 in the bubble 15 for Price and Allen for 1yr all 4 lines in Montreal are around 38 million combined 3 guys in Toronto get 32 million lets play hockey and see
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