Confirmed with Link: Jeff Petry (50% retained) traded to DET for Gustav Lindström and conditional 4th-round pick in 2025 (later of Detroit or Boston's pick)

[BLONG7]

I suggest that your invective is better aimed at the fool who signed Hoffman to that outrageous contract rather than the player who benefited from that foolishness. Hoffman was the player he was before he came here. To have expected more is one of the reasons why Hughes is now the General Manager.

It's not easy moving on from The Rinse and Repeat Era.....
/slowly but surely, we are going in the right direction.

 

[Habs Halifax]

it's very telling how completely out to lunch a lot of fans are.

A quote from one of our all time great GM's.... "1 million GM fans living in the basement of their parents house". He wasn't a complete idiot.... bang on with that one.

 

[HabsCowboysOwn]

Damn 29 pages for this nothing trade, can't wait for training camp to start so we have something interesting to talk about.

 

[Frank Drebin]

Damn 29 pages for this nothing trade, can't wait for training camp to start so we have something interesting to talk about.

And then 10 months to wait till the draft lottery

 

[Andy]

And then 10 months to wait till the draft lottery

Random thought considering this thread and sorry to use you as a springboard. I wonder how many times in nhl history a team with a 50 goal scorer finished bottom 5?

 

[CHfan1]

Random thought considering this thread and sorry to use you as a springboard. I wonder how many times in nhl history a team with a 50 goal scorer finished bottom 5?

Having a quick look at the salary cap era. Kovalchuk scored 52 in the 2007-08 season and Atlanta finished 3rd last. Ovechkin scored 52 in the 2005-06 season and Washington finished 4th last.

 

[the]

Random thought considering this thread and sorry to use you as a springboard. I wonder how many times in nhl history a team with a 50 goal scorer finished bottom 5?

Without looking, I got to believe my boy Ilya Kovalchuk got screwed a few times.

That guy's talent was wasted in Atlanta.

 

[Frank Drebin]

Blaine Stoughton (remember him?) Scored 52 goals in 1981-82 for the 18th place (of 21) whalers.

He also had a 56 goal, 100 point campaign in 79-80

 

[jrom]

Damn 29 pages for this nothing trade, can't wait for training camp to start so we have something interesting to talk about.

Can’t wait for the 50 pages thread: “Slaf at 225 pounds, under/over” once training camp starts with the usual 60 pager for Lane’s size

 

[Mrb1p]

Random thought considering this thread and sorry to use you as a springboard. I wonder how many times in nhl history a team with a 50 goal scorer finished bottom 5?

That should be the list:

Kovalchuks thrashers in 07-08 (3)
Ovis caps in 05 06 (25th)
Bures Panthers from 00-01 (4th)
Bures nucks in 97 98 (3)
Selannes Ducks in 97-98 (4)
Stevie Ys Wings finished 3rd last in 89 90
Jimmy Carson in 87 88 (4)
Cicarellis north star in 86 87
Rick Vaive in 81 82 (3) and 83-84 (4)
Mike Bullards and his pens in 83-84 leading the charge to draft the GOAT (last)
Blaine Stoughton and the Whalers in 81 82 (4)
Dennis Maruk and Caps in 80 81 (5th)

 

[OldCraig71]

Damn 29 pages for this nothing trade, can't wait for training camp to start so we have something interesting to talk about.

Slafkovsky is enjoying the break from the usual suspects.

 

[Scriptor]

And then 10 months to wait till the draft lottery

It's only borderline funny because there are some Montreal fans who know so little about hockey that this is truly all they can look forward to experiencing.

 

[dackelljuneaubulis02]

Yup.

Some people might see it as players might think "Look at the habs, they did Petry a favor, sounds like nice place to play."

But there's other side which is "Damn, Petry REALLY does not want to play in Montreal. I thought it was a covid restriction thing, guess not."

There are always other considerations and I don't think the gesture we did for Petry is as well perceived as people think.

Yeah but did Hughes want him to play here?

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

That should be the list:

Kovalchuks thrashers in 07-08 (3)
Ovis caps in 05 06 (25th)
Bures Panthers from 00-01 (4th)
Bures nucks in 97 98 (3)
Selannes Ducks in 97-98 (4)
Stevie Ys Wings finished 3rd last in 89 90
Jimmy Carson in 87 88 (4)
Cicarellis north star in 86 87
Rick Vaive in 81 82 (3) and 83-84 (4)
Mike Bullards and his pens in 83-84 leading the charge to draft the GOAT (last)
Blaine Stoughton and the Whalers in 81 82 (4)
Dennis Maruk and Caps in 80 81 (5th)

Rick Nash comes to mind. Luc Robitaille? Just trying to think of bad teams and big scorers. Joe Sakic?

 

[Mrb1p]

Rick Nash comes to mind. Luc Robitaille? Just trying to think of bad teams and big scorers. Joe Sakic?

Nash never scored 50 and no to all these guys.

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

Nash never scored 50 and no to all these guys.

He won the Richard with 41 goals? Wow.

 

[CHfan1]

Nash never scored 50 and no to all these guys.

The Kings finished 4th last in 1987-88 when Robitaille scored 53 goals.

 

[montreal]

Random thought considering this thread and sorry to use you as a springboard. I wonder how many times in nhl history a team with a 50 goal scorer finished bottom 5?

not something we have to worry about just yet

 

[the valiant effort]

Sakic ruled.

 

[sheed36]

Just finished reading a Petry piece in the Detroit Free Press from today.

Once he told his dad he favored hockey, Jeff Petry was destined to join Detroit Red Wings

Michigan State alumnus Jeff Petry has the offensive numbers — and sweater number — to enjoy his time as a Detroit Red Wings defenseman.

www.freep.com

"When the GM of Montreal called me and told me I was traded to Detroit, it was a big relief, and also a lot of excitement," Petry said.

Really Jeff? The guy just did you a huge favor and accommodated you and your family by trading you to where you wanted to go (maybe even for a lesser return that he may have gotten later elsewhere) and you couldn't even call him by his name Jeff b'y.

Also was it a big relief Jeff like when you need to take a crap very badly and there's no bathroom close by but you finally make it to one at the very last second right before crapping your pants? Was it a big relief like that Jeff?

To hear that news that you're coming home and coming to play for the team you watched growing up, to be able to put on this jersey, that means a lot," Petry said. "Detroit was the No. 1 spot on my list. I want to play here, and I've wanted to my whole life.

And yet you re-signed for 6 years with the Habs the first time you were gonna become a UFA and then another 4 year extension after.

 

[Rapala]

it's very telling how completely out to lunch a lot of fans are.

I suppose you are the genius on this board? The poll had most of us saying he was being traded or at least Hughes was trying to trade him. I'm not going to fault fans for trying to determine how he would fit in if we had to use him. I'm also not going to fault fans who understood we coud only get his full value by playing him. Petry is still better than most if not all of our right side Einstein.

 

[Rapala]

Slafkovsky is enjoying the break from the usual suspects.

...and he's breathing a lot better.

 

[Redux91]

He won the Richard with 41 goals? Wow.

Crosby once won the Rocket with 44 goals lol

 

[ChesterNimitz]

While Hughes has proven to be a quantum improvement over his very limited predecessor, it doesn’t mean I agree with everything he has done. For example, I wouldn’t have drafted Reinbacher at 5OA. My preference was Leonard or to have traded down and selected Moore. But his acquisition of Newhook and his passing on Wright were excellent moves. Likewise, his initial re- acquisition of Petry was a Machiavellian-like move. On its surface, the recent trading of Petry was, at best, curious. I can’t see the huge risk we would have assumed in retaining Petry and trading him at the next trade deadline. If he got injured or his play materially regressed, what would we have lost? A 4th round pick in 2025? A marginal prospect? But if his play even approached 75% of prime Petry, he would have served as a great bridge player until our other prospects arrived and been a valuable trading asset. But that calculus is based on a superficial review of this recent transaction. None of us know what went on behind close doors. I will give Hughes the benefit of the doubt for no other reason than in the end he was able to rid us Hoffman’s contract, retain little on Petry’s contract and secure second and fourth round picks.

 

[Boss Man Hughes]

While Hughes has proven to be a quantum improvement over his very limited predecessor, it doesn’t mean I agree with everything he has done. For example, I wouldn’t have drafted Reinbacher at 5OA. My preference was Leonard or to have traded down and selected Moore. But his acquisition of Newhook and his passing on Wright were excellent moves. Likewise, his initial re- acquisition of Petry was a Machiavellian-like move. On its surface, the recent trading of Petry was, at best, curious. I can’t see the huge risk we would have assumed in retaining Petry and trading him at the next trade deadline. If he got injured or his play materially regressed, what would we have lost? A 4th round pick in 2025? A marginal prospect? But if his play even approached 75% of prime Petry, he would have served as a great bridge player until our other prospects arrived and been a valuable trading asset. But that calculus is based on a superficial review of this recent transaction. None of knows what went on behind close doors. I will give Hughes the benefit of the doubt for no other reason than he was able to get rid of the Hoffman contract, retained little on Petry and secured a second round pick in the end.

Unless he would get the Habs a 1st round pick he wasn't worth keeping. Matheson, Savard, Harris, Barron, Guhle and Xhekaj should be playing. Petry would just impede the progress of one of the young players. And Petry dodn't want to return to the Habs and his comments on the trade make him an undesirable. He should have thanked Hughes for getting him to Detroit. And as was already said his comment about always wanting to play for the Wings is bullshit.