Montreal Canadiens: Are team bio changes worth worrying over?
By Omar L
Players making changes to their team bio on social media platforms always causes a stir, and this latest one involves Max Domi and the Montreal Canadiens.
When you hit the offseason, and there are a lot of question marks around your team, anything and everything can catch your eye. It makes it worse when a player has some trade smoke around their head. Enter Max Domi and the Montreal Canadiens.
Domi is one of 13 restricted free agents in need of a contract. If you were to bring this up after his first season as a member of the Canadiens, it would be a no-brainer to sign him. Now things have changed, and after a disappointing follow-up year in combination with a rather mundane playoff performance, the window of moving on from him isn’t exactly closed.
Because of that, it makes something as small as changing a social media biography something worth paying attention to. If you’ve taken a gander at Domi’s Instagram or Twitter pages, you may have noticed that it doesn’t have the ‘MTL’ on his bio anymore.
Now, this isn’t the first time a player has done this, and it won’t be the last. Some fans are taking this as a pure fact that the Montreal Canadiens are trading Max Domi. To go even further, the initial response from any player who does something similar is to assume that they’re gone. But that’s not the case here, at least I don’t think it is.
I feel this is more of an initial step of the contract negotiation process rather than a declaration of a departure from Domi. He can’t leave the team of his own accord as the Canadiens own his rights with him only being an RFA. The only way that happens is if Marc Bergevin doesn’t qualify him, which would make Domi a UFA, but that would be horrible asset management.
It’s the game within the game when it comes to contracts. It’s within Domi’s right to take off the ‘MTL’ tags until a new deal is reached because it’s fair for him to not see himself as part of the team until it happens.
That said, it’ll be interesting to see how this goes. As much as I don’t think this is Domi saying he’s done with the Habs, I also don’t think it’s out of left-field to say he could be traded.
Evaluating The In-House Solutions To The Montreal Canadiens’ Backup Goalie Problem
The Montreal Canadiens have three candidates within the organization who can back up Carey Price, whether they’re good enough for the task is another question.
The Montreal Canadiens can’t give up on Ryan Poehling, but it’s time to act
Ryan Poehling not being in the best shape doesn’t do well for his standing within the organization, and he’s running out of time to change that perception.
Who played their last game for the Montreal Canadiens?
It’s a difficult question, and one of the answers may be a tough pill to swallow.
Is a Busy Offseason on the Horizon for Marc Bergevin?
Bergevin had a lot to say in that final press conference, and it hinted at some possible changes for the Montreal Canadiens in the offseason.
Are we heading to an all-Canadian regular season?
The NHL worked out a bubble model for the playoffs, and it looks as if they’re trying to adopt a similar format for the 2020-21 regular season.