Since the Habs are a distant 2nd favourite team after the Pens, I want them to do well, but I have a feeling they are missing the playoffs this coming season. They essentially swapped Radulov for Drouin, which is about a chop, so they aren't going to be better offensively, their defence is worse than last year, and I don't think it was very good then either. Price will be Price, but at $10.5 after this year he handcuffs his teams ability to build a real solid contender around him, not that I trust Bergevin to be able to do that.
I didn't like the Weber-Subban trade last year, and I hate it now. Weber is good and all, but it's obvious he's already lost a step from 2-3 years ago, and they have him signed for what, 8 more years? Losing Emelin and Beaulieu hurts when you don't have the organizational depth to fill those spots after trading Sergachev, and they still don't have a top line center, and it's arguable that they don't even have a true 2nd line center either. They should be in "win now" mode in Price's prime, but they are NOWHERE close to doing that. They better hope his knees hold up considering his history, or that could be an albatross in 4 or 5 years, and the contract is virtually buyout proof and would be almost untradeable.
But they signed Hemsky.