According to xGAR, these 100 players are better than Mike Matheson and make less or about the same amount as him in salary Matthew Schaefer Denton Mateychuk Jordan Spence Travis Sanheim Darren Raddysh Janis Moser Sam Malinski Esa Lindell Jonas Brodin Ryan Shea Nick Blankenburg Ryan McDonagh Sean Walker Philip Broberg Nate Schmidt Shayne Gostisbehere Brandt Clarke Charle-Edouard D'astous Mattias Samuelsson Brayden McNabb Mattias Ekholm Niko Mikkola Brent Burns Kaedan Korczak Lian Bichsel Ryker Evans Nils Lundkvist Jake McCabe Connor Murphy Adam Pelech Rasmus Sandin Dylan Demelo Trevor Van Riemsdyk Matthew Robertson Oliver Ekman-Larsson Josh Manson Nick Seeler Tyler Tucker Alex Nikishin Emil Andrae Jamie Drysdale Ben Hutton Bowen Byram Cam York John Marino Olen Zellweger Ian Moore Pavel Mintyukov Gustav Forsling Ty Emberson Vincent Desharnais John Klingberg Brett Pesce Connor Clifton Ian Cole Mario Ferraro Shakir Mukhamadullin Dylan Samberg Axel Sandin-Pellikka Mikey Anderson Jared Spurgeon Samuel Girard Nicolas Hague Yan Kuznetsov Radko Gudas Simon Edvinsson Maxwell Crozier Emil Martinsen Lilleberg Jeremy Lauzon Jonathan Aspirot Marcus Pettersson Artem Zub Brian Dumoulin Dante Fabbro Logan Stanley Parker Wotherspoon Martin Fehervary Uvis Balinskis Carson Soucy Simon Nemec Joel Hanley Brenden Dillon Jacob Bernard-Docker Wyatt Kaiser Matt Roy Scott Mayfield Sean Durzi Tyler Kleven Timothy Liljegren Rasmus Ristolainen Johnathan Kovacevic Justin Barron Albert Johansson Nick Jensen Zayne Parekh Erik Cernak Adam Larsson Jake Walman Neal Pionk Jacob Middleton

The vocal jays fans are the same vocal leafs fans who clearly cannot comprehend the obvious Vlad jr will be fine if he rests well this offseason Now signing Bo and Suzuki will help the offense. Skubal is a dream for the rotation but King would be very nice. Bullpen kinda chill, just get a better lefty than Little C: Kirk 1B: Vlad Jr 2B: Bichette SS: Gimenez 3B: Okamoto LF: Barger CF: Bateman RF: Suzuki DH: Sanchez/Santander Cease King Soriano Yesavage Ponce

Just saying, if you kept Matheson scratched for long enough, he’d be willing to waive his NMC for some teams You won’t get anything in return but honestly just getting the 6m in cap and the roster spot is enough for me

This team is so fun to watch for 50 minutes a night Those 10 minutes is the worst team in the league

Kapanen leave my hockey team

Reinbacher’s best shift was with Guhle But Xhekaj is never the problem

Benson is getting to Stutzle territory

Oh the Habs have a 2 goal lead, give them a penalty

Savard Struble Carrier Reinbacher Not a single one of these players has looked good next to Xhekaj But Xhekaj isn’t the problem

That’s not on Reinbacher wtf is Xhekaj doing Push your man

What is it with the media and drumming up trade rumours with players that fully don’t fit the teams age group

I know small sample size but thats a great top 9 right now When Demidov returns, id move Anderson for Demidov and scratch Dach

Now my opinion on trading for a C changes when you bring up Pettersson Pettersson is good enough to move Hage to the wing and would lowkey give the Habs a Left and Right handed faceoff takers on the same line Id be willing to give this up for him Kapanen Zharovksy Pickford 2027 1st 2028 2nd If you do not think Elias Pettersson is not elite, you simply do not know puck or have never seen him play.

Trading for a C wouldn’t make sense with Hage getting that spot next season and Newhook doing a good job there at the moment Zharovsky is 2 years out minimum and isn’t much of a goal scorer. Habs still need a top 6 winger that can score. The Habs should target someone 27 and under to fit with the current roster Here are the “options” Owen Tippett Daniil But Ivan Miroshnichenko Matvei Michkov (prob not available) Or a Center good enough to move Hage to Winger like Elias Pettersson Quinton Byfield Sidney Crosby (only vet id target)

Remember when Pettersson was the “issue” in Vancouver under Tocchet Pepperidge’s farms remembers

Hes 29, too old. Same as Larkin. Got after under 25 pls

Yes a 25 year old with lower potential than a 21 year old will be scrutinized more for bad play

Breaking news Habs fans who have been treated with the mostly consistent goaltending with Carey Price for over a decade is flippy floppy with an inconsistent goalie that is the main reason they have lost games that should’ve been wins in a tightly contested division in a season with actual expectations More at 11pm

Habs only need league average goaltending Dobes is not giving them that right now

That was one of the most complete 2 periods I’ve seen from a MSL team Lalonde has helped this team immensely defensively. Penalites are still an issue but that comes with time in the system Only issue now is talent. Theres just a lack of talent on the roster in certain areas but really only need to acquire 1 player for this Hage and Reinbacher solve the talent issues except for 1 position and that’s 2nd line scoring winger

Matheson is gone and the D core actually looks pretty good Really only need to upgrade on Xhekaj