Canadiens sign Moen

wprager wrote:Moen will help in the post-season. Maybe I should rephrase that to say "would help". In the regular season he is just a 4th line checker, but in 2007 he scored the Cup winning goal .

He's signed for 3 years, though, so he has a chance to help out in the post-season.

Also, how can he help protect the top-line guys playing on the 4th line? No, they got Gill and Mara for that.

I agree that Moen will help in the post-season. If things are not going well during the season, Moen is a very tradeable commodity at trade deadline.

wprager wrote:Moen will help in the post-season. Maybe I should rephrase that to say "would help". In the regular season he is just a 4th line checker, but in 2007 he scored the Cup winning goal .

He's signed for 3 years, though, so he has a chance to help out in the post-season.

Also, how can he help protect the top-line guys playing on the 4th line? No, they got Gill and Mara for that.

perhaps the presence of him being there may be enough to protect the Smurfs, however, I figured that was Laracque was for, boy that didn't work out well.

Laraque always reminds me of a smaller Andre the Giant, but without the humor. He really is not much of a hockey player, and in the current NHL is definitely more of a detractor. Gainey should ave tried moving him when he said he wanted to be moved last season. Except, probably, there were no takers. And now he is one of 4 francophones on the team, so trading him would definitely not be politically correct in that climate.

Gainey got 7 new players; surely he could have gotten *one* that spoke French? I'm sure Briere could have been had from the Flyers.

PKC wrote:

dennycrane wrote:Finally a deal where I think Gainey made a good move. 1.5 million per season isn't too bad, but he didn't underpay.

Really? You think this is a good deal? 3 years at 1.5 per for a fourth line checker? Did they have no one in the minors to play that role for less than half that money?

4th line checker? Moen is a mean-Donkey 3rd line checker who can play 12-15 minutes a game and shut down the other team's best lines, and beat the snot out of any one giving your best players a hard time.

Did you watch the 2007 SCF at all? That line of Moen, Pahlsson, and R. Niedermayer, combined with our inept 2nd pairing of Redden / Meszaros, was our complete undoing in that series.

When I think about having Kelly for $2.1 mil or Moen for $1.5 mil for the next 3 years, I want to cry. And I'm a Kelly booster, in my own way.