Joel Armia, Christian Dvorak and David Savard could all leave Montreal as unrestricted free agents on July 1. While Dvorak doesn’t appear to have a future with the Canadiens, should Hughes try to re-sign Armia and Savard?
That’s the question answered on this Hockey Inside/Out Bonus episode as The Gazette’s Stu Cowan is joined by former Canadiens teammates and 1986 Stanley Cup champions Chris Nilan and Rick Green.
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Keep Armia if the costs are reasonable…
Keep Savard as a 7 until…league minimum
Armia could stay but as a checker pay rate
Only if they don't want to improve. Savard's skating is in decline and will only be worse next year.
Keep David Savard.
None of our prospects is capable of doing half of what Savard is doing, trading Kovacevic backfired a little.
For Armia, again no prospects are knocking, he fits with Evans and Heineman and as long as we don’t know what the f*** Dach and Newhook are yet, modifying one of the only two lines that somewhat works seems unwise.
Caufield – Suzuki -Slaf
Laine – Center #2 – Demidov
Heineman – Evans – Armia
Gallagher/Anderson (?) – Dach – Newhook
Hutson – Guhle
Matheson – Carrier
Xhekaj – Savard
Dobes/Montembault (1a/1b or 1b/1a)
no way, definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Signing the same players nets the same results, need 3 new forwards, back / kapanen will replace dvorak, demidov takes newhooks spot on the 2nd line, reinbacher or maillioux will take a spot, still need a spot for dach / newhook
Let’s see how much these guys love playing in MTL when they get an offer below what they currently make. Savard is year to year and Armia is no more than 3yrs.
Armia turned it up last time he needed a contract and then floated for two years. No thanks.
Savard has reached the end – he's no longer a mobile defenseman by any standard.
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I would say thank you to Savard, but it is time to move on. Hopefully Armia wants to stick around. Money?
Armia is a [must] to keep because his Hockey is a great thing for the Habs & it will help this new team to get a young established skilled player that can fill his void when he finally ends his tenure with the Habs. Re-signing Armia would mean a couple extra won games looking to next years season.
I thought about hard last year and I thought we should have kept Kovacevic and traded Savard
Savard should be an excellent player development prospect. There's a time for everything.