Post-Game Talk: Trade Deadline Day: March 7, 2025: Montreal stands pat

[sampollock]

Figs lose this summer
PJ boy and Mitch

 

[Runner77]

5-Star Quality Human Being Alert!





“Jake is a good hockey player, but he's also a very good person who is very well-liked in the room and in the organization.”

 

[TennisMenace]

I am not mad either
This team needs more then a deadline deal to compete

Exactly. Do Leafs fans actually think Scott Laughton is the missing piece for them? Or even Carlo? And they gave up their #1 pick for Laughton, even though they got a 4th and 6th back. Yawn…..

 

[dinodebino]

Frankly, Ottawa and Leafs are better today. No doubt. Zetterlund to Ottawa? Great trade.

I like some of their moves.

And now, you can see opposition underneath us getting decimated. Which is good news. We do play some of these teams before EOS.

Toronto and Florida will be the beasts in the east. Although you never know with the Figs.

Out west, it’s going to be a slugfest.

 

[Sasha Orlov]

Bro really said “hey everyone, look how incompetent I am at my job”

 

[sampollock]

No team wanted Math?
Find that hard to believe

 

[red devil]

 

[thebestnic]

Hughes booting it forward to the summer. Likely some of the discussions today laid the groundwork for future deals:



Kent Hughes: "I've called some teams about players. I won't mention names because they're very good players and good prospects. Those are things we'll look at more this summer."

Probably easier to make a trade happen after they know where the two first rounders are also

 

[Vachon23]

Oliver Kapanen will finish the year with Laval when his season will finish

 

[EXPOS123]

They made call for players that were not reportly available and they will try it again this summer.

It getting more and more obvious that we cannot pus around anymore and be afraid to give up a haul to finally land that true #1C/2C

Sorry but if it means giving up Caulfield to get someone like a TageThompson (not saying Buffalo will make him available) then you do it. Wingers are easier to find. Look around at everyone else’s center ice 1 , 2 punch and we will never win until we fix this once and for all

 

[red devil]

Kapanen could join Laval

 

[sampollock]

Glad TSN can wet now

 

[Kobe Armstrong]

Hughes has balls of steel

What a masterclass deadline!!

 

[Vachon23]

So a 1st and Olivier Kapanen ?

 

[red devil]

 

[le_sean]

Hughes has balls of steel

What a masterclass deadline!!

A masterclass at re-signing a 4th liner.

 

[Team_Spirit]

I think the most baffling deal is the Zetterlund deal.....Why Grier? Why in the world would you get a kid that was finally exploding, tons of talent, for 2 pluggers and a 2nd round pick?

Active tanking.

That's why 4giev is playing so much.

 

[Runner77]

This is for @Whitesnake who wanted players for Laval.

 

[SwiftyHab]

Oh snap

When does his season end?

 

[HuGort]

Holy shit! Marchand to Florida.

Carlo to Toronto.

Bruins are tearing it down!

Carlo been good fit here

 

[CristianoRonaldo]

It won't fall from the sky, it doesn't mean it's okay to jump head first into Cozens. We have time to do better than that.

Nobody asked KH to jump head first on Cozens. Stating that you don't have the assets to land a #2C after you ended your rebuild is not a good sign.

 

[ReHabs]

People didn't want to rush into major deals at the trade deadline in years 2 and 3 of a rebuild. That isn't proof of commenting in bad faith as you suggest or believing Kent Hughes is always right.

You may disagree with it, but it's not like it's some ridiculous irrational notion.

Is selling UFA players and non-core now considered a major deal? He did that (to mixed results) his first trade deadline.

So I figure you think This isn’t PlayStation, trades are hard, etc

 

[red devil]

So a 1st and Olivier Kapanen ?

I was thinking a 1st and Beck but the difference between the Habs 1st and Leafs 1st could be significant

 

[Saundies]

I’m not sure how anyone can saying doing nothing is the right move

If you are trying to make the playoffs, you need a centre

If we’re not going for it, we should have sold parts like Armia and Savard given the high prices

Looks like we’ll end this year in no man’s land

What centre would you have gotten that moves the needle? The only one I can think of is Cozens and Ottawa paid a lot to get him. We don't have a Norris/Bernard Docker to give up to get anyone right now.

Sure, we got have gotten a stopgap centre. But even a guy like Scott Laughton costs the Leafs a first rounder.

As for selling, people literally think athletes and players are numbers on a scoresheet lmao. Do you know how pissed the locker room would be if we just sold guys for nothing picks that will have no impact on the org for 3-5 years? And that's what they would have been, nothing. Savard, the way he's playing doesn't get you a second. Joel Armia? Maybe the most desperate team. Don't even get me started on Dvo.

People mad at this deadline, just say you were bored and it sucks that you were bored. There was no franchise altering mistakes made today and it doesn't make Hughes a bad GM to not do anything.

 

[sampollock]

Need a fig injury to make the playoffs interesting