Maybe:
* Scandella for a 2nd & 4th
Weise + Fleischman for Danault @ 2016 deadline
The Scandella, Chiarot, and Kulak deals are good reminders that dmen are in demand at the deadline. Hopefully Edmundson and Savard (and Petry?) will all be in good form on the final year of their deals.
Hum we paid more for Shaw than we got in return that's not selling high ...
We paid more but Shaw was great for us and played great hockey for us and he got injured and retired right after the trade.
That's not being fair, he's been one of Calgary's most dangerous players offensively, he's just been robbed a half dozen times by a goalie that's become lights out in this series.Tough au Lit with 1 secondary assist on a 5 on 3 and -5 in 6 games vs Dallas
Agreed. We got the last few years of decent hockey out of him, and traded a damaged asset back to Chicago and "almost" recouped what we had traded for him to begin with in terms of draft picks (2 + 2 VS 2 +3 + 7)
Selling Dmen at trade deadline is peak value, it's when they are at the highest demand, how else do you explain a 2nd round pick for Kulak. Then the return for Chiarot was awesome.
ya, maybe it's not super peak, but he's fairly young with lots of speed and toughness and just scored 19 goals in like 68 games I believe while not sticking in one spot with a good center. I could see teams salivating at the idea of sticking Anderson beside a top 6 center for a great team....like on McDavid's wing or Bergeron's or Crosby or Malkin, or on the Rangers, etc, etc, etc,
I don't think he's been cleared to play yet, he was practicing with the team in a none-contact jersey last week.
We need size so not Anderson.
That's still not trading high ... that's called ripping off another incompetent GM. Shaw's value was not particularly high when we traded him. Chicago was just being badly managed and it shows today.
Bergs drafted so badly. Passed on a lot of skill. Killed themthe funny thing is that Tatar ended up pretty solid for us and then Bergevin failed to sell high
Even the argument of the cup run fails, because he was benched most of the way because he... sucks in the playoffs.
You do realize that Bourque was just a contract going the other way?
The big issue with Bergevin was not finding value in trades, it was recognizing when to trade his assets to get the most from them. And by that I mean addressing needs by trading his assets.
MB found good vslue in Shaw, but he could have arguably got more before he was completely battered by injuries - still not sure why Chicago did that trade.
MB also did good (or lucked out?) by acquiring Tatar as a "cap dump - he ended up solid for us. But then, he failed to capitalize on Tatar's excellent play to orchestrate anything of value for the Habs.
And all the late rounders he got are good value for some of the players he gave away, but then those are just throwing shit at a dart board really.
Contrast this with the new management immediately capitalizing on the "cup finalist" values of guys like Chiarot, Lehkonen, Kulak, and I am way more hopeful. And the Lehk trade especially was a huge win for the Habs imo: we gained a RD prospect who's near-NHL ready! At a time where our prospect pool is barren of RD's and where we're employing AHL caliber D's to fill the spots.
And what did it cost us? A middle six winger. Ome that hurts to lose, but middle six nonetheless
