HFHabs: "We're tired of French players using us just to go elsewhere! It would be nice if they actually followed through and signed here for once!"
Good French Player: *does almost everything in his power to try and force his way to Montreal*
HFHabs: "Red flags! Red flags! He's a diva!"
Jokes aside, I think the PLD attitude problems are way overblown. He wants to choose where he lives and works, what's the problem with that? People forget that these aren't just hockey players, they are human beings. How many of you would pack your shit and move somewhere you have no interest in going rather than be where you want to be?
Right now, Dubois holds almost all the cards. His primary choice is the Habs, and he has no contract signed. That narrows down things considerably as he may not be willing to sign a contract with any old team that comes along in trade talks. This puts us in a really strong position leverage wise in working out a trade with Winnipeg.
And if the trade demands/contract demands are not a fit, we simply move on. No harm no foul. But we are in such an advantageous position to pick up a top 6 PWF at below market rate. We've been dreaming of a player like that for how long now? And yet people want to pass because maybe we can tank a little longer and cross our fingers and hope a star falls into our lap. Teams are not built on hopes and dreams and crossed fingers. When you are in an advantageous position to add a player at a below market cost with a contract that works for you, you do it every single time.
