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.

 

[RC51]

every year it's the same thing. over and over again. some hab poster asks for bids on hab players. every year the entire habs roster is worth a bag of pucks. so you know what. STOP the entire HF boards has become a platform to just hate hate hate and lie demean all the while hiding behind the keyboard and this has been going on for years and years. If this was real life and a gang of haters would show up face to face to say all the same things right to the habs fan faces, yup a BIG BIG fight with at least 30 in the hospital all the hate would stop with everyone understanding i think we went too FAR with all this hate stuff. But because everyone is hiding behind the keyboard it NEVER GETS TO STOP EVER.