Martin on course, and other weekend links
by Kevin van Steendelaar on Jul 16, 2011 2:02 PM EDT
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Well it's a beautiful Saturday afternoon in my neck of the woods. Yours truly, who would rather be out on the course or at least at the driving range, is homebound dog sitting.
That said, it at least gives me time to work on some upcoming projects for Eyes On The Prize, get a little reading in (currently Glenn Hall's bio), as well as see what everyone else in the hockey blogosphere is up to.
On Friday the Montreal Canadiens dealt Mathieu Carle to the Anaheim Ducks for Mark Mitera. Carle will likely get a better chance to earn full-time work in Anaheim, where the depth ladder is easier to climb.
Mitera was a former first-round by the Ducks in 2006, when current Toronto Maple Leafs boss Brian Burke was GM, but after five years hasn't met much promise. Lindsay Kramer of the Syracuse Post-Standard feels the edge in this deal went to the Ducks.
Benoit Pouliot deal v2.0?
The Canadiens also signed Frederic St. Denis to a one-year, two way deal.
Regular Olivier Bouchard gives us some excellent analysis of the quality of opponents the Habs faced last season. A Google translation is provided here.
Steve Farnham of AllHabs on Josh Gorges and arbitration.
Yves on looking forward to a good year with Erik Cole in the Habs lineup
Jacques Martin hosted his annual golf tournament on Friday. La Presse's Francois Gagnon tweeted earlier Saturday morning that this was the last year for the event. If so, it is a real shame as The Ominium Jacques Martin has raised over $1.5 million to various charities, including Rogers House and the Ontario Heart Foundation.
Marc de Foy spoke to the Habs coach at his tournament on the upcoming season and also on replacing Kirk Muller.
Toronto radio shoots it's mouth off....again.The follow up story from PPP.
"I'm a pretty dirty player," Paquette said. "I did my job, like Matt Cooke."
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Thx for link to Farnham’s story on Gorges. PG really does have all the power here. Over the weeks, I know lots of folks on EOTP have been expecting Gorges to sign for 3-4 years at $3MM+ per year. Right now, that just doesn’t make sense. I can’t see Gorges winning more than $2.25MM in arbitration – it would be stupid for PG to present higher number & risky for Gorges to ask for more than 75-80% raise given his stats/injury.
Maybe the number ends up being $2.0MM and PG is left with ~$6MM in cap space, another vet Dman expiring in 1 year and another year to evaluate if Habs want to keep Gorges long-term. If they’re already decided that they DO want him long-term, Year 1 contract at $2.0-2.25MM is much better than Year 1 at $3MM+ for the 3/4 year deal that everyone was expecting a few weeks ago.
Seems like a lot of penny pinching for one season given that there’s barely any possible way for us to be a cap spending team this season. Then again, it’s not my money to spend, and maybe Gauthier’s plan is to never pay for UFA years in advance. In this case, the argument seems less practical and more philosophical. But Gauthier got this job with a plan, and Molson probably expects him to adhere to the standard he set.
It’s just weird that the Habs aren’t likely to be within even $2m of the ceiling. Yet people still think we should dump Gomez even though there is literally no pressure to do that this year. They also think the Cole contract will be an albatross moving forward. That’s hard to believe when after a pretty solid season not even Gomez’s contract is an albatross moving forward, and we could add another so called albatross in Cole.
I guess we’re now really seeing the benefits of not signing RFA’s to UFA style contracts that the Habs have been doing every year post-lockout.
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