We shouldn’t trade anything for him. If he wants to sign here as a cheap UFA fine. Don’t disrupt the rebuild for a quick fix. And definitely don’t trade assets.
PLD is not a quick fix. He is 24 yo ppg player with size. If you have an opportunity to get him for a reasonable package, you should do it and make him part of the core.
That being said, the fact he probably wants to play in Mtl gives HuGo a big advantage
I wouldn’t pay what the poster you were responding to was proposing though.
But my package would include Dvorak and Harris as pieces that can help Winnipeg right now, which would probably be an ask from them. And we probably would need to include our 2nd (top 40) or the late 1st we would get for Monahan at the deadline.
Habs are in a position now where they can give up that kind of pick or even a decent prospect.
Right now Habs need to add top end talent, which they will get with our 1st and Florida’s. PLD would also bring that.