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The Montreal Canadiens On Paper

07/22/2016 at 8:18am EDT

from Brendan Kelly of the Montreal Gazette,

The real question is whether the Canadiens are a better team now than they were at the end of this disastrous season. I spoke to my buddy Simon Boisvert – a filmmaker and former QMJHL scout – and his take on the new-look Habs is that this is an “all-in” edition, as in Bergevin wants to win in the next year or two.

But Boisvert calls it a “semi all-in” because the team still doesn’t have the roster to compete with the best teams in the league.

We agreed that presumably the first line next season will be Max Pacioretty, Brendan Gallagher and Alex Galchenyuk, which I suggested is a decent first line but hardly spectacular.

“It’s a second line at best on a championship-winning team,” said Boisvert. “But it’s not a top line on a championship team.”

Then the next line has to be Tomas Plekanec at centre, Radulov on the wing along with maybe Sven Andrighetto. The plus is you presumably have new pick-up Andrew Shaw on the third line.

“So your first line is actually a second line and your second line is actually a third line,” said Boisvert. “Then you have two fourth lines.”

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