Speculation: Montreal deadline sale - make your offers!

[Bouboumaster]

Yes you would be correct if you were referring to any other team but Montreal

Montreal has had lottery picks for 3 years in a row and they selected the wrong player every time:

Reinbacher instead of michkov
Slaf instead of Cooley
Kotkaniemi instead of tkachuk

What’s the point in tanking if you are consistently making the wrong picks?

Reinbacher was a mistake
Slafkovsky > Cooley
Kotkaniemi was a mistake made by Bergevin

 

[Harry Kakalovich]

WAY too early to think about this. Nobody knows who will be buyers, who will be sellers, and what the holes are that need to be filled. I agree that Montreal will probably trade their expiring contracts, but why argue about the returns now when nothing is clear? Wait until January/February.

 

[Barsky]

Savard should get a lot of interest. Too few legit 2nd pairing RD in the league.

You're right, there are too few of those, especially since Savard won't be a top 4 D on any team that will trade for him

Reinbacher was a mistake
Slafkovsky > Cooley
Kotkaniemi was a mistake made by Bergevin

All things being equal, you always take the centre over the winger and so far Cooley and Slaf is too close to call anyway

 

[Barsky]

WAY too early to think about this. Nobody knows who will be buyers, who will be sellers, and what the holes are that need to be filled. I agree that Montreal will probably trade their expiring contracts, but why argue about the returns now when nothing is clear? Wait until January/February.

There's lots we know, and Montreal being sellers is one of the things that everyone outside Montreal knows. Chicago, SJ, Anaheim & CBJ all will be too, so its' never too early to speculate, that's what this site is built for

 

[Bouboumaster]

All things being equal, you always take the centre over the winger and so far Cooley and Slaf is too close to call anyway

Slaf is too Much of a physical Beast to pass on

 

[Barsky]

Slaf is too Much of a physical Beast to pass on

Maybe, it's different every year, but that draft had no clear cut #1, so who knows, but it will be a while b4 any solid determinations can be made. If Cooley develops into the #1 C Utah needs, it'll be no contest, he'll have more value than Slaf, all things being equal contractually at least

 

[The Great Weal]

Wait wasn't that Anderson?

No hold on, it was Evans.

Maybe it was Toffoli/Chiarot/Monahan? Oh wait nevermind these 3 all got one.

 

[Stickpucker]

A lot can change over the next couple months.

Need to insulate all of those youngins and work on culture.