Come on...
That one is clearly not credible at all.
Eklund has proven time and time again that he's making $hit up.
It's not even remotely comparable.
If someone tell you the earth is flat then you don't have to be open minded.
This is basically the earth is flat of rumour. Ehlers is older, never scored 30 goals, never did 70 points, is a winger, has worse playoffs stats. Unless Suzuki asked for a trade and Winipeg has a top 15 pick to compensate the downgrade it's not happening.
I'm not going to give one person the benefit of the doubt when they've been wrong in the past and not the other just because they were more vague (didn't say what the cost would be) and their proposal was more palatable to me. That's literally wishful thinking.
Of course Eklund's rumour is ridiculous (and worse than the Andersson rumour). But Montreal trying to trade for a likely costly D-man with two years of control in September is pretty farfetched too.
I'm not talking about being a contending team here, just a playoffs team, to start.
Yes, goaltending is still a question mark, i'll give you that, but they have the potential to be good enough to make the playoffs.
So because the second line has played 85 games last season means they'll play 85 again this season?
Suzuki is pretty close to being a P/G player. I also think he's still has room to grow.
You seem to agree with me that they need help on D.
So what's the most glaring hole this season?
That's the point though. For the biggest hole to be able to be filled by a guy like Andersson, we need a whole lot more certainty than potential, room to grow and relying on improvements. By that same measure Montreal can hope that their potential at RD can bridge the gap this season.
The goal this season is to be more competitive, ideally past the deadline. Its not to make the playoffs. Montreal needs to
As for biggest hole, its either #1 D, which Andersson does not address, or if we're relying on potential, then #2 center. Dach missed almost all of last season and wasn't a full time center before that. If he doesn't work out then Montreal does not have potential fix for a #2 C. Montreal's got a number of young D that have the potential to have an impact.