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

[EXPOS123]

I don’t hate it….we have a lot to look forward to and the real impact moves will happen during the off-season

But that’s the thing....all the big names moved or re-signed or signed extensions.

Who’s left for the summer besides some over the hill vets like Duschehe looking to use Montreal cash in one last time?

 

[Canadienna]

Putting aside whether Zacha would be a good fit here, I don't like how many former clients or Quartexx clients we've acquired/been linked to.

Objectivity is an important quality in a GM.

 

[The Great Weal]

Makes little sense to trade a 2nd for a player who doesn't have a spot on the habs next season. And I doubt he would return a 2nd if you try to trade him again in the summer.

Why would he not have a spot on the Habs next season? So if Zetterlund wouldn't return a 2nd in the summer, do you think we'd have to add the Flames 1st to move Newhook who's very clearly an inferior player?

 

[Sasha Orlov]

Don’t think EDM have the depth/defence/goalie to pass Dallas

I thought the same last year but really all it takes is for 97 and 29 to go ballistic and they can beat anyone

 

[Boss Man Hughes]

Care to explain why you think Minten is a better prospect than Kapanen? Just curious to see if others see it the same as you do.

No. Kapanen is a much better prospect.

 

[LaP]

And how many of this picks will play in the nhl?

Drafting is so overrated...

You pick 10 players and your lucky if 2 of them become nhl regular.

yet is the way pretty much all cup contenders are built rofl

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

That’s the price of a top line C!

This is why you can’t bring back any of the 3 high salaries. Pezzetta is flammable as MSL won’t play him so give someone else a chance.

Don't want any of those 4 clowns in our lineup next season. Getting upgrade from those 4 is easy

 

[Miller Time]

Jesus some people are whiny lmfao

Its okay to be disapointed but jesus christ you'd think we traded Demidov for a 5th.

Its fine to do nothing now but there won't be any excuses not to improve the team this summer. And I'm not talking abkut adding depth players only. Hughes will have to cough up some of our assets to improve our 2nd line.

And really, it's just 1 legit top 6 player we need to add

Slaf Suzuki CC is a good -soon-to-be great first line.

Add a legit top 6 C with 2 of Laine, Demidov, Newhook, Dach, and that should give us a very good 2nd line.

Slaf Suzuki CC
Laine Malkin Demidov
Newhook Evans Dach
Anderson *Beck Gally/Heineman

Giddy up

Re-sign Dvorak 1-2yrs at less than 2.85M if he'll take it and keep Beck/Kapanen in Laval playing top 6 pro roles and injury call up.

 

[Boss Man Hughes]

Putting aside whether Zacha would be a good fit here, I don't like how many former clients or Quartexx clients we've acquired/been linked to.

Objectivity is an important quality in a GM.

It has NOTHING to do with objectivity. It has everything to do with familiarity with the player you are acquirng.

 

[Runner77]

Who started the Hoes Mad meme? It's a good one.

I made this one:

 

[Sasha Orlov]

And really, it's just 1 legit top 6 player we need to add

Slaf Suzuki CC is a good -soon-to-be great first line.

Add a legit top 6 C with 2 of Laine, Demidov, Newhook, Dach, and that should give us a very good 2nd line.

Slaf Suzuki CC
Laine Malkin Demidov
Newhook Evans Dach
Anderson Beck Gally/Heineman

Giddy up

Laine, Newhook, Dach are not top 6 players on a serious NHL team

 

[Guy Larose]

I personally don't think selling the players was the bad move for low picks. The team deserved to stay together. That being said, a little help I'm sure would have been welcomed. Obviously the 2nd line center would have been tough, but at least get a capable winger and use Newhook as a stop gap until summer. You're 1 point out and you worked for it all season, so missing by a point or a couple, I'm sure will be devastating.

PS. If we sold players, I'd hate to see X cry like that little bitch Tkachuk lol

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

Hmm I'd take a look at Quartexx Client List

I have the list right here:

 

[Miller Time]

Laine, Newhook, Dach are not top 6 players on a serious NHL team

Completely untrue

Might want to go back and look at top 6 forwards from the past decade of cup Winners & finalist.

 

[schwang26]

Thank God KH didn't acquire anyone. People are so impatient. Just because Suzuki, Caufield and Hutson have been carrying the team does not mean you throw away Hage and 1st rounders for that famous 2C (because that would have been the price).
His mess up was acquiring Dach. 2 wrongs do not make a right.
I swear people would be happier if the Habs had done shitty trades instead of staying put.

I’m not mad at that. It’s dumb to not pick up depth. Dach isn’t coming back, which means Beck is their 2C??? The second line hardly plays. Beck doesn’t belong in the nhl right now. What happens if they make the playoffs? Beck stays up, Laval suffers a bit. Makes no sense.

 

[Harry Kakalovich]

Hughes did nothing? He should be fired...

 

[Junohockeyfan]

Glad Hughes stood pat. A 3rd round pick or late 2nd for the Savard / Armia is not going to change anything and could demoralize a team that is playing their arses off.

Smart to stand pat.

 

[Noble]

Nobody is mad about not getting Cozens , no help for a push no help to replace beck on the second line even if it was a cap dump for the rest of the season

Called the no man's land

Idk, seen some people upset about not getting a 2C today and the only one that somewhat fit that bill would have been Cozens.The truth is that we're not sellers anymore and there weren't many guys available that fit the long term plan.

I get the whole no man's land thing but that is exactly the kind of year we expected at this stage of the rebuild to be honest. We are a no man's land team right now but shouldn't be for long. Id rather forego adding to the roster right now and instead hold on to our assets and continue to build in the summer when a lot more guys are available and prices aren't so high.

 

[Sasha Orlov]

Completely untrue

Might want to go back and look at top 6 forwards from the past decade of cup Winners & finalist.

Laine is a PP specialist and almost completely useless 5v5

Can’t think of a single top 6 F worse than Laine on any Cup winner in recent memory

 

[Canadienna]

It has NOTHING to do with objectivity. It has everything to do with familiarity with the player you are acquirng.

Do they not have pro scouts? Is that not still a bias if you have this much of a blindspot for non Quartexx clients?

Presumably every GM has players they are more and less familiar with, they're just not concentrated under one agency.

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

Idk, seen some people upset about not getting a 2C today and the only one that somewhat fit that bill would have been Cozens.The truth is that we're not sellers anymore and there weren't many guys available that fit the long term plan.

I get the whole no man's land thing but that is exactly the kind of year we expected at this stage of the rebuild to be honest. We are a no man's land team right now but shouldn't be for long. Id rather forego adding to the roster right now and instead hold on to our assets and continue to build in the summer when a lot more guys are available and prices aren't so high.

Well I think Ufas are even worse than TDL prices. Also the Ufas are awful. You don't build teams with ufas. Unless we somehow get a ppg player.

I just think they could have gave help to The AHL put beck for a playoff run in Laval.
Dvorak Evans and Beck is not it. People will ask why Laine is invisible outside the PP well matched with Newhook and Beck , the hell you want him to do.

 

[vokiel]

Well I think Ufas are even worse than TDL prices. Also the Ufas are awful. You don't build teams with ufas. Unless we somehow get a ppg player.

I just think they could have gave help to The AHL put beck for a playoff run in Laval.
Dvorak Evans and Beck is not it. People will ask why Laine is invisible outside the PP well matched with Newhook and Beck , the hell you want him to do.

Sam Bennett is going to be UFA.

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

Completely untrue

Might want to go back and look at top 6 forwards from the past decade of cup Winners & finalist.

You don't win cups with Newhook and Dach in your top 6

 

[Adriatic]

Marchand, Bennett and Tkachuk all on the same team. Whoever they match-up against will have to get down and dirty to beat these guys lol

 

[Sorinth]

Savard is done, if we re-sign him, it will be worse than not trading him today.

Which is irrelevant to the point I was making. He's helping us maintain our position of being in the mix, and being in the mix is good for the development because you learn what it takes to win by playing in must win games.