Confirmed Trade: [MTL/CBJ] Patrik Laine, '26 2nd for Jordan Harris

[Kimota]

Yes no more Harris talks in trades! Thank you Hughes just for that.

 

[HuGo Sham]

Not at all. I like Laine and would like to see him succeed.

Montreal doesn't look like it fits to me having watched him quite a while. You think he does. Time will tell. If/when it doesn't work out, the next thing to watch will be how long it takes he and his family to receive death threats from Montreal fans.

you are upset

with troll takes

see ya

 

[Monsieur Miz]

Dach and Laine together is one hell of a porcelaine line. Hopefully they can stay healthy.

 

[Runner77]

Halak was a number 1 goalie for a while.

Ryder was had some 30 goal seasons.

I believe that 2nd ended up being Subban.

The only person who couldn't get value out of this would have been Bergevin.

The 3rd round pick that the Habs used to select Harris, was begotten via the Halak trade tree.

 

[HuGo Sham]

Good deal for Columbus. They got out from under his contract for basically a 3rd in value. Excellent work. Horrific for MTL.

it's always the same posters with same montreal takes.
always.
boring

 

[Arthur Morgan]

Going to be lovely when Laine pots 100 points playing with Caufield and Slafkovsky next season.

wow I mean its good to have high expectations but wow

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

Seems like a bad move on Laine POV. Mental health issues and goes to biggest markets in canada.. yikes

Would have agreed to that like 40 minutes ago.

Thread is moving fast, but the Habs, more specifically, Hughes, Gorton and St. Louis were granted permission to talk to Laine and made him well aware of the pressure.

He's also been told his success won't be determined in goals scored, but rather he's being brought in to help the team in all areas and aid in the younger players' development.

 

[Rob Sense]

Good deal for Columbus. They got out from under his contract for basically a 3rd in value. Excellent work. Horrific for MTL.

Jealous much?

 

[Cowumbus]

Because Columbus will be bottom 10 again in 2026. Look at that line-up.

You have no idea what the lineup will look like in a year, is the point. Crap tons of cap space.

 

[SteelCityCannon]

Huge win for the Habs that is a pretty loaded forward group. Deals only 2 years and I think he’ll play close to his cap hit.

Goalie and D isn’t great but neither is Torontos. Probably a wildcard team now.

Laine being the difference in getting a team to the playoffs is not what I expected to read today.

What year is it rn

 

[Cowumbus]

It's pretty easy.

1. Columbus is early days in their rebuild. I expect them to be bottom 5 for a couple more seasons.

Tell me you don’t know anything about the Jackets, without telling me you don’t know anything about the CBJ

 

[JianYang]

What is Montreal trying to do?

My guess.... it's kind if a black hole up front after Suzuki, caufield, slafkovsky, and dach. Laine comes in cheap and on a short term. If he has a turnaround, he can be dealt for something down the road, or if he ends being a really good fit, they can try keeping him as I think they are planning to take a step next offseason.

 

[ellusive]

Lol.. as expected.. not much for Laine

 

[Arthur Morgan]

Laine playing less than 50 games for Montreal

I think he can play more than 50 but can he be more consistent? he scores in bunches and fades for long long stretches.
prey for no massive Fortnite updates throughout the regular season and if lucky playoffs

 

[ole ole]

Tell me you don't understand the player Montreal is getting without telling me you don't understand the player Montreal is getting.

Hughes didn't rob anyone you got a player that hasn't played 82 games since 2019 with mental health issues that tries half the time on an 8.7 cap hit.

Well if he keeps half trying and stays at that PPG clip i'll be happy.
Looking just at the Habs end of the deal they did very good.
Now if CBJ fans are happy with what they got then we are all good.
Anyone shitting on the Habs for this deal are just, lets just say they don't like the Habs period.

 

[Michoulicious]

Next year Habs top 9:

Slafkovsky-Suzuki-Caufield
Laine-Dach-Demidov
Anderson-Newhook-Roy

 

[Runner77]

Best part of this trade is future Habs fan cope and seethe on the boards.

Every fan base has its embarrassing sorts. Hopefully most will have the good sense of not judging the many on account of the excesses of a few dolts.

 

[knight23]

Lineup:

Slafkovsky - Suzuki - Caufield
Laine - Dvorak - Demidov
Newhook - Dach - Roy
Evans - A.Koivu - Armia

Laine play first line and second line

Laine/Caufield/Slafkovsky are the team.

Montreal have very talented team.

Montreal will reach the playoff race.

 

[Three On Zero]

Good for Laine and Montreal

 

[Sasha Orlov]

I think he can play more than 50 but can he be more consistent? he scores in bunches and fades for long long stretches.
prey for no massive Fortnite updates throughout the regular season and if lucky playoffs

I didn’t even mean 50 this season I meant 50 total lmao

 

[MCB]

Wanted the ducks to take a chance on him, grats habs fans, it looks like a great trade, hope he turns it around.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

But all the CBJ fans said they didn't like Harris lol.

fans have no control what a gm does. they might say they dislike a return because as fans u always want that home run win. well it usually doesn't work that way and most returns are disappointing.

 

[Viqsi]

It's pretty easy.

1. Columbus is early days in their rebuild. I expect them to be bottom 5 for a couple more seasons.

The CBJ rebuild started one season before Montreal's. The first lost season was the same season the Habs had that Unexpected Last Gasp run to the Cup finals; it got us Kent Johnson and Cole Sillinger.

 

[ole ole]

I mean clearly no other teams that had the space wanted Laine. Not really a matter of Harris's value. Columbus just wanted him off the books.

Agree and at that price the Habs were happy to accommodate them.

 

[Petes2424]

I have to fall in the Great job by Waddell category…

This isn’t a slumping player anymore. He took no salary back, for a guy averaging 14 goals over the last 4 years, making $8.7 million for another 2 years…. And he got a serviceable player in return, who should settle into being a nice 5/6 with more experience and maturity.

Montreal is making a pretty large wager, Laine will return to Winnipeg form, and be able to deal with all the outside noise of playing in Montreal. If he doesn’t though, it’s not the end of the world. They’d likely just buy him out next summer.

One thing’s for sure. Montreal’s media and fans, won’t put up with a player making $625,000 per goal…. So getting off to a quick start is gonna be important for Laine.