GDT: Trade Deadline Day: Tick Tock...

[Whitesnake]

Deadline for the AHL for players with no NHL attachment is next Monday. I'll bet we see some movement there too.

 

[LaP]

They are taking a gamble because it could be a steal in the next 2 years but Kotkaniemi this season struggle to play on the third line with awful icetime.
He did not even progressed from last year a habs in a stacked team with Carolina.

Terrible extension. the ''4.82m'' to mock the habs is even more pathetic

It's a bad gamble imo. It would be fine if it was 4 years or a millions less but this is a huge contract for a kid who always projected as the next Lars Eller. People laughed at that woman on draft day but she was right imo.

 

[417]

Dubas and Leafs have fumbled the bag big time, not only this deadline...but after being eliminated and deciding to go with Campbell/Mrazek and let Anderson go.

Yikes

 

[le_sean]

Is the Kulak trade official ? It is not mentionned on the Habs twitter account while they talk about lekh and hammonds

They are busy putting together the highlight video of his time in Montreal. Skating and not doing much else for 5 mins. Oh and there’s that goal the other day against the Sens.

 

[Habit11]

Which is.... getting rid of players who are useful and willing to play in Montreal instead of getting rid of real dead wood and pouters ????

You can disagree with the approach, that's fine... but is it clear or not?

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

If you're watching TSN on Youtube, this is how they are ranking teams.

Edmonton B?????
LOL

 

[Vachon23]

 

[Colezuki]

So happy those years are gone

 

[LaP]

Allen instead of Hamburgler would have been my only preference but HUGO killed it today.
Gives me faith we can move at least a couple more contracts in Petry/Gally/Armia/Byron/Drouin/Dvo during the summer.

We should be a really good team in 2 - 3 years.

He probably did not get his asking price for Allen. He can still be traded next deadline.

 

[MarkJ]

we didn't need Aho here now anyway, he'll come when our Stanley Cup window is wide open.

 

[Treb]

You love quoting tweets from past years without context, don't you?

 

[NicRattlehead]

Not a fan of Domi but not sure i'd call him not an improvement to a team. It's strange that our fan base, supposedly the most knowledgeable, still fail to realize how good Carolina is. It's okay to be salty but at one point you must keep contact with reality.

I'm admittedly not knowledgeable, I'm still learning, but I do think Kotkaniemi's 8 year extension was odd. I'm not saying "he's terrible. What a waste" but 8 years is a loooong time and at $4.82m AAV......that's a lot of money paid to a guy who has 23 points in 59 games. I actually like Kotkaniemi but I think I would've gone for something a little shorter.....maybe 4 years and I would've shot for $3.5 AAV. Again I'm not an expert whatsoever but that 8 years was shocking to me.

 

[Treb]

we didn't need Aho here now anyway, he'll come when our Stanley Cup window is wide open.

So next year?

 

[Koivu11]

They are taking a gamble because it could be a steal in the next 2 years but Kotkaniemi this season struggle to play on the third line with awful icetime.
He did not even progressed from last year a habs in a stacked team with Carolina.

Terrible extension. the ''4.82m'' to mock the habs is even more pathetic

Such a cringe organization.

 

[Hostile Offer]

Hughes and Gorton absolutely killing it this deadline!

 

[LaP]

Really surprised by the lack of movement concerning Allen. If I was any team wanting a goalie, I would have jumped on him even before MAF. What is Edmonton doing? They already made a trade with the Habs, I would have asked for Allen. Although I figure the Habs were really not interested in moving him?

Allen never was a number 1 and never will be. Number 2 goalies with term is rarely what teams look to address at the deadline. Next year is the last season of his contract he'll be more interesting at the deadline.

 

[le_sean]

I'm admittedly not knowledgeable, I'm still learning, but I do think Kotkaniemi's 8 year extension was odd. I'm not saying "he's terrible. What a waste" but 8 years is a loooong time and at $4.82m AAV......that's a lot of money paid to a guy who has 23 points in 59 games. I actually like Kotkaniemi but I think I would've gone for something a little shorter.....maybe 4 years and I would've shot for $3.5 AAV. Again I'm not an expert whatsoever but that 8 years was shocking to me.

Yeah he’s the perfect candidate for a bridge deal. No one has any idea of what he will become. He also doesn’t know either because he accepted this deal.

 

[Vachon23]

You love quoting tweets from past years without context, don't you?

Sometimes there is nothing to add..

 

[waffledave]

Carolina has paid/committed over $40 million to Kotkaniemi. f***ing absurd.

 

[Prairie Habs]

They are taking a gamble because it could be a steal in the next 2 years but Kotkaniemi this season struggle to play on the third line with awful icetime.
He did not even progressed from last year a habs in a stacked team with Carolina.

Terrible extension. the ''4.82m'' to mock the habs is even more pathetic

I'm blanking, what the significance of the number?

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

You love quoting tweets from past years without context, don't you?

Context is that Bergevin TDLs were 95% of the time scrap players with 0 skills whatsoever
while now we trade when the value is at best.

Bergevin should have done that with Tatar Gallagher Danault Armia and Petry

The difference is that Hugues is trying to make this team better and think about the future and he's not using Carey Price as a scapegoat .

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

I'm blanking, what the significance of the number?

82 his number in Carolina which is cringe

 

[Prairie Habs]

Was Kessel not traded or did I just miss it? I guess they just never got any worthwhile offers

 

[Kimota]

Allen never was a number 1 and never will be. Number 2 goalies with term is rarely what teams look to address at the deadline. Next year is the last season of his contract he'll be more interesting at the deadline.

Still a pretty damn good goalie. If you want to be a contender and you have serious goal tending issues, you should jump on a guy like that. Leafs should have been on it.

 

[Prairie Habs]

82 his number in Carolina which is cringe

Ah, stupid. The funnier version was when marner wanted to tack on some dollars with a "special" number so they added an extra 93k per year as a tribute to Gilmore rather than marners own 16. Dubas is a joke