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)

[Habs 4 Life]

Oh boy. I would not have retained for that package. Woof

Terrible, I would have preferred playing him to be honest. It's 2 years of retention, not just this season. Whatever...

 

[sampollock]

We got rid of Hoffman and pitlick for a couple picks and prospects. It’s a W.
Now we just gotta ditch DeSmith and we good.

he wont fetch much like a 7th pick maybe

 

[Vachon23]

The day he was traded with a 2nd round pick for Hoffman, it was a good indication that he was worth nothing..

Some just have put some to high expectations for the return…

 

[sampollock]

Terrible, I would have preferred playing him to be honest. It's 2 years of retention, not just this season. Whatever...

i guess if he gets hurt, he is old

 

[Nova_Scotia_Vees]

Great work.

 

[JeffreyLFC]

That is the first loss for hughes because of the retention.

 

[Skip Bayless]

The day he was traded with a 2nd round pick for Hoffman, it was a good indication that he was worth nothing..

Some just have put some to high expectations for the return…

Capspace, not just Hoffman.

 

[Habs 4 Life]

The Wife wins!!! lol

 

[domiwroze]

Considering the first trade and then the flip of Petry. It's pretty amazing that we got any type of value back for Hoffman and Pitlick. That value being a 2nd, 4th a decent back up that can too be flipped and a fringe NHL RHD ; I'd say that's just Amazing.

Went Wughes strikes again.
Lindstrom will have a good long look at camp, he'll see this as a perfect occasion to be a regular in the NHL and SHOULD, bring his A game.

 

[dackelljuneaubulis02]

Yeah that’s not a great return at 50% retention. Unless Lindstrom has some kind of upside that shows beyond his stats.

I’m sure Petry’s thrilled but I’m not lol. I would’ve sooner kept him. Yzerman taking full advantage of the fact that Petry really wanted to be in that area.

The whole thing was still a win but it could’ve been much more imo. Bit of a waste.

 

[Andrei79]

First impressions is this is a really poor deal. Losing a retention spot makes no sense for this return unless they know something about Lindstrom that we don't. The only positive is this helps be lower in the standings.

 

[McGees]

he wont fetch much like a 7th pick maybe

That’s fine - he’s a body to dump

 

[ottawa]

Underwhelmed but we still came out ahead in the grand scheme of things

 

[BaseballCoach]

We lost cap space in 24-25, 2.3m. Do you really think it’s great?

I do not. We could have ridden out Hoffman and sat him if he did not perform.

This is so bad that I wonder if Hughes had a deal in place for Petry that fell through suddenly and unexpectedly. It is absolutely not like him to have added cap hit for next year.

 

[sampollock]

what kind of Dman is Lindstrom?

 

[Spring in Fialta]

The day he was traded with a 2nd round pick for Hoffman, it was a good indication that he was worth nothing..

Some just have put some to high expectations for the return…

I thought he'd have better value than this at 50% retained TBH.

 

[Ezpz]

Somehow through this all we have ended up with a logjam at D again. Harris, Barron, Guhle and Xhekaj are all waiver exempt so don't be surprised to see someone starting in Laval.

The puzzling thing is we are making a divisional rival better. Maybe we are trying to Pollock the division to force a good pick.

 

[waitin425]

Gustav Lindstrom???

 

[sampollock]

Somehow through this all we have ended up with a logjam at D again. Harris, Barron, Guhle and Xhekaj are all waiver exempt so don't be surprised to see someone starting in Laval.

The puzzling thing is we are making a divisional rival better. Maybe we are trying to Pollock the division to force a good pick.

Harris goes down for sure

 

[Spring in Fialta]

Yeah that’s not a great return at 50% retention. Unless Lindstrom has some kind of upside that shows beyond his stats.

I’m sure Petry’s thrilled but I’m not lol. I would’ve sooner kept him. Yzerman taking full advantage of the fact that Petry really wanted to be in that area.

The whole thing was still a win but it could’ve been much more imo. Bit of a waste.

I don't know about 'much' more. But I find it underwhelming for sure.

 

[De Montreal]

Cap is going up like 8M after this year, retaining 2M$ next year is nothing in the grand scheme of things

 

[Ezpz]

what kind of Dman is Lindstrom?

Worse version of Kovacevic. Unremarkable safe player, but not physical. Never done anything at any level offensively so there isn't untapped potential there.

 

[Hope Of Glory]

Meh. Thought we'd get more but still overall a pretty good double trade.

 

[sampollock]

Worse version of Kovacevic. Unremarkable safe player, but not physical. Never done anything at any level offensively so there isn't untapped potential there.

so ahl type of guy... ride the bus then

 

[Dr Quincy]

Lindstrom doesn't beat out our top 6 so this is pretty awful. Detroit were very close to us in goals against and most of our guys missed half the season. He wasn't even able to crack their lineup and had the second worst +/- after Chiarot.

I assumed there was no retention but you are all mentioning it.

Petry probably couldn't agree to come back here.

He's about equal as a player to Kovacevic but a completely different style.. and a style they don't really need so.. yeah don't seem him as an every day guy.