HF Habs: Trade Proposal Thread #88: 2024-25 Season

[Leto]

That's a lot of money/term for them to take.

Especially for a guy with an extensive history of shoulder injuries.

 

[Habssince89]

Depends if HuGo thinks Mailloux will ever have passable defence at the next level. They may not and they aren't the ones who drafted him.

tbh he has great potential but I wouldn't mind if we made a lateral move for a C using him. Just needs to be a quality player coming back. I worry about him being a one-way D

 

[Walksss]

Jiricek for Mailloux straight up. Does CLB say no? Do we?

 

[Beendair Donedat]

Jiricek for Mailloux straight up. Does CLB say no? Do we?

We do.

Molson took all the heat that went along with drafting Mailloux, and Hughes made it a personal mission to ensure he met and exceeded all the expectations that the organization had for him before even contemplating negotiations on a ELC contract.

Mailloux missed a ton of time in his development stage before being tossed into a full season of AHL hockey, where he thrived as a rookie. This year, he’s over a PPG (12 games, 13 points) so far. That type of point projection isn’t something you dismiss easily.

Ultimately the two players have put up similar points numbers in their AHL careers but the Habs have a lot more vested into Mailloux at this point, and I feel like he may have the higher ceiling offensively. Defensively he’s still an adventure, but you can teach defense. I see it as two guys going in different directions - Jiricek seems to have dropped substantially from where he was expected to be, while Mailloux is improving.

Just my 0.02$