Confirmed with Link: [PIT/MTL] Jeff Petry and Ryan Poehling for Mike Matheson and 4th PIT 2023

[JeffreyLFC]

I love Matheson. He is Quebecois after all, maybe JC should make a segment on how great we finally get player from Quebec.

 

[Estimated_Prophet]

Trade all the Americans for
Top Canadian or European players. Americans don’t want to play here

So we should trade Caufield, Farrell, Struble, Hutson, Primeau, Pitlick (just signed lol), Biondi, Tuch and Wideman......?

 

[BenchBrawl]

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[MarkovsKnee]

Who’s your bordeline NHL centre in case of emergency? That was Poehling. Jake gets injured once or twice a season. Dach, unsure of his physical status. You need more.

Pitlick can play center, and played there for Montreal when we needed him too.

 

[BargainBinSpecial]

Love the player. Hate his injuries. His time is done....at least in MTL. Considering your got him off waivers, getting a 6-7th rounder at this point would be quite sufficient.

Even getting future considerations would be just fine.

 

[Belial]

Yes, I know....but considering we'll need to sign other players, like Caufield....not much Cap space is amde in the end.

Last thing we needed was another long term heavy contract.....especially at a position where we have Guhle, Harris, Norlinder, Xhekaj are pushing to get a spot.

I understand the trade and being stuck with Petry and we shouldn't get something in return.....but nothing would have been a better return in my book.

Hughes confirmed that he absolutely looked to get a D back so I guess this was the plan all the way.

 

[FerrisRox]

Who’s your bordeline NHL centre in case of emergency? That was Poehling. Jake gets injured once or twice a season. Dach, unsure of his physical status. You need more.

During a season where the team is hoping young players develop and the team loses a lot of hockey games to get a high end draft pick? My guess is whoever is centering the first line in Laval, followed by whoever is centering the second line in Laval.

 

[tazsub3]

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Yeah Matheson was excellent for Pens in their playoffs.

i agree, i could not laugh more when something said he is an alzner....lol some here comment on players they never watch... i guess his PS4/5 rating must be the same as alzner.

 

[dinodebino]

Well, he can play on a bottom 6 but he is not good at anything, not consistent, good speed and big body but he doesn’t use it to his advantage, still some potential but expect a bottom 6 player in the upcoming years

Exactly. And falls asleep. Becomes complacent without having accomplished anything yet.

 

[FerrisRox]

Hey! You back!

Indeed I am.

Matheson is actually a good skater.

I would say his mobility is his greatest asset.

 

[Max2]

I don't remember Matheson being as bad as some folks are portraying here

This is the dysfunctional hab's forum.Everyone on the roster is shit and every player coming in is shit even if you dont know much about them or seen them play.Everyone and everything is shit.

 

[OpenIceHit]

After the trade and the Pitlick signing, the Habs now have, according to CapFriendly, $1.24M in cap space. If they want to create more cap space, they can either ship out other players or at worst, they can place someone on Off-Season LTIR, which would most likely be Byron. So that would create an extra $3.4M in cap space for them.

They can also go 10% over the cap in the off-season.

Still A LOT of work to be done to fix this team. Still way too many bad contracts. One step at a time.

 

[morhilane]

Hughes confirmed that he absolutely looked to get a D back so I guess this was the plan all the way.

He's been saying it since the start that if he traded Petry, he would be looking for a vet D to replace him. What people missed was the unsaid "as the return for Petry".

 

[blarneylad]

Pens fan I come in peace.

Wondering how good of a prospect Poehling is?

I see a lot of comments about Matheson being shit. I think you guys are going to love him.

Matheson is incredible and honestly I think he's on the up.

Edit he isn't a prospect he's 23 Big F.

I like Poehling. Thing he has upside as a Lw. Fast with some offensive upside. Wouldn’t expect much more than a 3rd who will bounce between the fourth line. Can spot on a second line but don’t think he has that upside. But who knows.

 

[japhi]

Personally I'd like to see Matheson stay and grow into the veteran defensemen around a lot of the younger guys he's going to be playing with in Montreal, but I don't think it's realistic.

The reality is, Matheson is going to be a guy targeted at the trade deadline while logging big minutes on a non playoff team and I think Hughes will end up cashing in those chips.

With 4 years left that TDL deal is a ways off. If he does play solid top 4, hard to think they will trade him. I'm not sure that Hughes wants to tank the way the posters here do, obviously not as playoff team next year but I suspect and hope Hughes understands that a total tank season would be detrimental to his young players.

 

[Habaneros]

Mike is already a very solid dman,.. i do expect to see him elevate his game further just like
how Petry , Chiarot did after coming to Montreal,..Also Mike's born in Quebec and speaks
french so that's a bonus for this market .

I would imagine he will be extra pumped up to play in his home province .,.,.,.,
welcome home and welcome aboard Mike , good luck this season!

 

[Milhouse40]

Matheson is not defensive at all, his 11 goals at ES put him 9th in the entire league for D's goal scoring.

I mean he scored more EVP points than Klingberg and Pietrangelo last season...

Maybe they plan to use him on the PP as Letang was eating all the PP minutes in Pittsburgh.

You know what I meant.......
Yes, he had his best season last year, but he's not an offensive D-man like those you mentioned neither and never forget he won't be playing with Crosby, Letang or Malkin over here.

 

[BaseballCoach]

Struble is done. He shouldn't get signed.

What is the problem?

 

[Hacketts]

No you're not.

Consider though that Petry became an expensive liability at 34. Which team was really willing to give a king's ransom? A prospect and 2nd rounder would have been fine. This trade hurts the rebuild.

Matheson seems like another Alzner, but Petry was just like him when he came to Montreal. If Matheson has the will to do well, he can become a top pairing D in his home town. If things don't workout, the Habs saved about 2 mil in capspace for the next 4 years.

I have a feeling that HuGo wants to shed as much salary for Molson as he can. The plan is not working out lol.

Alzner couldn't skate nor open a jar, Matheson is a fantastic skater and from reports can still open jars.

 

[HostileCapSpace]

Renaud approves.

Reading that tweet you'd think he's a Habs employee. Well...

 

[tazsub3]

Indeed I am.



I would say his mobility is his greatest asset.

yep, exactly like alzner as the poster said . lol.... seriously i rarely if ever mock a post repeatedly, but i cant resist.

 

[Milhouse40]

Hughes confirmed that he absolutely looked to get a D back so I guess this was the plan all the way.

Hughes also mentioned 10,000 times the need to get some cap flexibility, mentioned Petry many times while talking about it. We didn't get any Cap flexibility so far.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Still A LOT of work to be done to fix this team. Still way too many bad contracts. One step at a time.

Exactly. One step at a time. This won't be fixed in one year.

But Hughes has already created cap space with the deals he's made so far, particularly the Toffoli and Petry trades.

 

[CoopersFalls]

No one can say with a straight face that we won this trade. We barely save any cap space AND we give Poehling for free. Beyond brutal.

 

[BaseballCoach]

Norlinder instead of Harris for me

Tanker?