NotOpie
"Puck don't lie"
yeah, lowe has managed to progress from a below average third-pairing defenseman in the ahl to an average one. i'd be shocked if he ever touched nhl ice again. he's been on the checkers for almost four years and got a couple nhl games at the end of a lost season. then again brett bellemore managed to play over 100 NHL games, so maybe lowe can hope to catch on with us again in a couple years to fill our yearly career AHLer on the NHL roster quota.
what could this possibly a precursor to? we now have a different depth defenseman in the ahl, so....?
Like I said maybe it's nothing, but teams don't do other teams favors for nothing. There was literally no reason to do this trade.
So my conspiracy theory-ridden mind looks at this as us giving the Habs slightly more value so that we can accept slightly less value in another deal....like Rask for Galchenyuk