Value of: Buchnevich to Montreal

[Treb]

You obviously have to give to add a prime age established scoring winger to your team.

Hage and a strong 1st round pick (top 2 protected) would be the main value.

However the Blues have a glut of forward prospects on the cusp: Dvorsky, Snuggerud, Stenberg and Stancl (who is making a big move right now) all look legit and in similar timing as Hage.

[Major RHD prospect is also a Blues need but not too much else ... you offering Reinbacher?]

Montreal has plenty of wingers and shouldn't be looking at guys like Buchnevich. The premise of this trade makes no sense apart of the unnecessary idea of getting a Russian in Montreal.

A Russian addition in Montreal would need to be a top6 C or a top4 RD.

 

[Treb]

Why not go after like a Tarasenko or Dadonov or someone in that range that’s on the backend of their career instead of Buch who just signed an extension for 6 years?

Highly unlikely Blues entertain moving Buch. Even less likely Habs fans would like to pay the price that it would require.

We don't have a spot for any of them.

Caufield-Slaf
Laine-Demidov
Newhook-Heineman
Gallagher-Anderson

Need to trade someone out to get one in and that's not counting the winger prospects that should be pushing for spots next year.

It just doesn't make sense to pay fair value assets for a winger right now.

 

[MXD]

I like the premise of adding a Russian player to help Demidov, but a very pricey Top-6 winger whose biggest impact would be to push down Demidov (or Slafkovsky or Laine) down the depth chart because of the money he commands would be all sorts of stupid.

Go for someone like Namestnikov. Or Artyom Zub (well, NOT Zub, but someone like him, can't think of a great fit on top of my head. No, not Romanov).