On this episode of the Basu & Godin Notebook, Arpon and Marc Antoine compare their list of top-10 Canadiens prospects (0:00). MONDAY MAILBAG: Canadiens players who get you through the playoffs (1:10:25), performances at the Worlds (1:16:30), Carey Price and the Lightning (1:21:40), Nick Bobrov and his penchant for Europe (1:29:50), Newhook’s impact on Gallagher (1:33:19).
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Recorded: May 27, 2024
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Finalement le premier.
Been F5ing all day for this
The intro song only gets better and better!
Et de deux
A top 5 of Fowler, Mailloux, Reinbacher, Roy and Hutson screams of a lack in offensive prospects, the top center prospect being Beck adds on top of that, hell Roy was a 5th round pick that developed himself into a potential top6 forward, like Harvey-Pinard, he willed his way into the lineup, he wasn’t a major piece in the plans of the Canadiens until recently.
Please do not select another defenseman with either first round picks this year (and next), couldn’t care less if the scouts were 75% sure of getting a first pair defensemen by doing it either, because let’s face it being first pair in MTL currently doesn’t mean much league wide.
Montreal needs offense very badly, they needed it 5 years ago, 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 30 years ago.
He is Serge Savard all over again.. maybe even upstairs too. We'll have big hockey brain and big brain.
Sign toffoli for 2 years will be good
Great podcast as always guys! Given you both have said you look at the comments can you please comment on the following in your next podcast. My question relates to Yevgeni Volokhin whom Marc Antoine mentioned briefly. Many "experts" have been saying Ivan Demidov is the best winger in the draft despite him playing in the MHL. Volokhin, who turned 19 in April, put up extremely impressive numbers this past season in the MHL so why isn't he in your top 10? Why do you rate Kapanen as being the higher prospect? Yes he had a great playoff and did well in the IIHF but do you actually think he has a higher ceiling? Many thanks and best regards from Scotland.
Good show guys !
Another great show , you guys make traffic bearable.
curious if you both think the top 5 pick this year for the habs and all of the options at that spot, would launch that player to the #1 status of our prospect pool
The only team that would want Prices contract is to hit the cap floor….
Good lists guys, I agree with most of it, I tend to exclude players that aren't here like Fowler etc.. We have 7 roster spots opening after 24-25, and as spots open I see, Hutson, Mailloux, Beck, Heineman, Roy, joining the team this season. Guys I wonder about are Kidney, Davidson, Andersen, Trudeau, I'm curious to see if they earn a call-up. Thanks, good show.
On the question of LTIR. A team in the beginning of the season has to fit all their contracts into the cap including LTIR. Once that is done, LTIR is calculated at that point. So Montreal would start the season with 10.5 million of LTIR space because of Price's contract.
You can't simply aquire LTIR space and then have that extra space as cap room. Its why when Las Vegas picked up Weber's contract, they realized that they couldn't do much with it and immediately traded it to Arizona who could use it to get to the cap floor since they could use Weber's contract to get to the cap floor since it counts as one of your contracts.
LTIR is not a magic bullet. What Las Vegas has to do is some serious cap shenanigans this off season since they won't be able to resign players like Marchesault or Martinez.
For Montreal's part, Price's contract is basically dead money that they can't use. They can't really sign free agents until that is cleared in two years. Any money they do free up, they should be using it to sign their young core to new contracts since they will be demanding a higher contract. Its why Kent Hughes when he does a trade, he takes contracts that are expiring since if he took a multi year contract, then that cap hit will roll over into the next season and Hughes would have to factor that contract into the cap including Price's LTIR.
So don't expect any splashy FA signings this year. Maybe next year Kent Hughes will go all in. But we have Price's LTIR for 2 years. Josh Anderson and Brendan Gallagher contracts for another 3 years. So we have 22.5 million tied up on 3 players that we are waiting on. And if you look it at that, that is a HUGE chunk of the cap space that is hamstringing Kent Hughes from doing anything dramatic. He has to wait and not destroy any flexibility in the future.
the next lineup in D: Reinbacher R1 Hutson L1, Engstrom L2 Mailloux R2, Trudeau L3, Konushkov R3, Strubbel 7, the rest trade them, get some offense…Ghule is too prone to injuries and will get some assets….ok….Trudeau?…he is better than you think….:) Forget Harris and the others….