HF Habs: Trade Proposal Thread #89: 2024-2025 season part II

[StCaufield]

Why would you ruin your salary structure for someone you dont need? In couple years we might have the best top6 wingers in the league. We primarly need top4 RHD and 2C, the rest needs just patience.
Btw, Rantanen can easily drop out of 100 pts player to PPG player without McK and Makar.

Basing things off of “might” is never a good look. Every team needs a player like him. Also cap keeps going up and our financial structure would still be in better shape than most teams especially by the time the Gally and Andy contracts end

 

[GettingYourMoms]

Yes, with KK as his center majority of the time. Necas wants to play center but he's not good enough defensively for Rod and he sucks on face-offs.

His huge offensive streak at the beginning of this season was at center and then he majorly slowed down, Carolina was slumping so he was moved back to wing.

Yeah that´s what 16 minutes per night do to you, Avs won big time even Mittelstadt is massive upgrade for Necas over Kotkaniemi. Will be funny to see Rantanen playing without MacKinnon like pre-boom Necas.

 

[MarkovsKnee]

Yeah that´s what 16 minutes per night do to you, Avs won big time even Mittelstadt is massive upgrade for Necas over Kotkaniemi. Will be funny to see Rantanen playing without MacKinnon like pre-boom Necas.

I wouldn't under estimate how important Makar is too. It's going to be interesting to see how Rantanen does without them and if Necas gets explosive again with them.

 

[CaptainKirk]

Kirby Dachanen

He also forgot Newhook from New Finland…

 

[Guy Larose]

14m! We don't need Mikko Rantanen, Slafkovsky is our Rantanen, remember? Any day now.

Wouldn't be a normal day without you bashing him

 

[yianik]

I don't understand the Habs interest I'm Rantanen. We already have 4 top 6 wingers. Where's he going to fit. A C would make more sense imo.

Well it's Habs fans interested in Rantanen. And it's because he is a great player of course, but you are correct. Unless we were moving one of the 4 wingers for Rantanen it makes 0 sense as we need to keep our assets for a 2C if Dach fails, or for possibly a top RHD

The Ehler talk is worse, the only guy he might be an improvement on in the here and now is Slaf. That's it. And I'm not taking Ehlers over Slaf.

 

[Deebs]

Wouldn't blame Bedard one bit if he asks for a way out of Chicago. I was thinking a team might offer sheet the kid after next year but with all the cap space in the world, Chicago will match anything and then he's stuck there for another 8.

 

[26Mats]

Granlund would be great on a third line. Just think the Timing is a bit off. Id rather keep Newhook for now but Granlund is a good player overall.

I don't mean trade Newhook. I mean bump him down to the 3rd line. But Granlund would cost at least Struble and a 2nd or a 3rd.

That's a lot to give up for a 32 year old, given our timingbinnthe rebuild.

 

[le_sean]

So Carolina traded for winger Rantanen to have a 2nd line center.
And Colorado traded for winger Necas to have a 2nd line center.
Chicago...no idea what Chicago is trying to accomplish, they dumped Taylor Hall I guess...



This trade feels like 3 GMs decided they wanted to do a trade, but couldn't bother thinking too much about it.

Carolina traded for Rantanen because he’s a top 10 forward in the league. This is a team that keeps losing in the playoffs because they can’t score and they added a premier player for a guy that’s always disappointed at even strength.

 

[morhilane]

Carolina traded for Rantanen because he’s a top 10 forward in the league. This is a team that keeps losing in the playoffs because they can’t score and they added a premier player for a guy that’s always disappointed at even strength.

I was commenting on MarkovsKnee saying Carolina traded for Rantanen to play him at center permanently (which I don't think they will do). Carolina 100% won that trade...unless they fail at extending Rantanen.

 

[vokiel]

Wouldn't blame Bedard one bit if he asks for a way out of Chicago. I was thinking a team might offer sheet the kid after next year but with all the cap space in the world, Chicago will match anything and then he's stuck there for another 8.

Why would he ask for way out? Taylor Hall is at the end of his career.

 

[Thomas Sowell]

Wouldn't blame Bedard one bit if he asks for a way out of Chicago. I was thinking a team might offer sheet the kid after next year but with all the cap space in the world, Chicago will match anything and then he's stuck there for another 8.

Demidov - Bedard - Slafkovsky
Laine - Suzuki - Caufield
Heine - Hage - Dach

Hutson - Reinbacher
Ghule - Carrier

Fowler
Dobes

 

[eklund the clown]

Demidov - Bedard - Slafkovsky
Laine - Suzuki - Caufield
Heine - Hage - Dach

Hutson - Reinbacher
Ghule - Carrier

Fowler
Dobes

Except you forgot that half of the players here shown will be going to Chicago

 

[Deebs]

Why would he ask for way out? Taylor Hall is at the end of his career.

Nothing to do with Hall, he's been cooked for years.

The Hawks are a dog and pony show organization. They've been doing nothing to make their team better and/or surround the kid. There's nothing coming up that's overly exciting besides Levu. Moore and Nazar are not going to move the needle. They are so far back in their rebuild it's gotta seem like a drastically long road ahead and I'm not sure he'll want to stay put. Just my opinion on it.

Demidov - Bedard - Slafkovsky
Laine - Suzuki - Caufield
Heine - Hage - Dach

Hutson - Reinbacher
Ghule - Carrier

Fowler
Dobes

No lie, I was thinking how we could pull that off but Chicago has all the cap space to match anything that comes their way.

 

[Vachon23]

Except you forgot that half of the players here shown will be going to Chicago

Demidov would be at least in the package going to Chicago

But that’s all hypothetical since Bedard is going no where

 

[DAChampion]

I had to go to the Chicago board to understand why they did the trade.

I think it's that ... Taylor Hall is so bad now, and so expensive, that they need to pay to get rid of him.

 

[Victoire HuGo]

I had to go to the Chicago board to understand why they did the trade.

I think it's that ... Taylor Hall is so bad now, and so expensive, that they need to pay to get rid of him.

Their GM is so bad.

 

[eklund the clown]

Wonder what the Canucks are asking for Pettersson ?I think he would be the icing on the cake here.Looking ahead it's about all we need.He is the right age ,superstar potential as he has shown .We do have 2 1st round picks to dangle .Maybe a future one also?Thrown in Dvorak if they need a centre

 

[SOLR]

Wouldn't blame Bedard one bit if he asks for a way out of Chicago. I was thinking a team might offer sheet the kid after next year but with all the cap space in the world, Chicago will match anything and then he's stuck there for another 8.

Why? Just the 2nd year of the rebuild. He has a few years to go and he knew that from the start. Chicago as a good group of kids coming. It will become interesting for Bedard soon.

 

[Thomas Sowell]

We

I think this trade suggests that we have a chance at signing him

Can do it too.

Demidov and reinbacher on entry level for 3 years, Dvorak coming off the books. We're pretty much going to have to either buy out Gally or send a pick with him though. But we can do this

Cap is allowed to go up 5% per year's. In 3 years we could be looking at a cap over 100 million

now wait a minute!

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That would be nice lol. But realistically the only thing I can think of is Peterson but is Peterson bigger than rantanen?

 

[Habs]

Avs are trading future HOF'ers and Montreal can't figure out what to do with Savard and held onto Barron like he was the second coming of Bobby Orr. Imagine the load they could have got for Price if they let him goto a contender instead of sucking the life out of him the last 8 years.

Anyhoo.. c'mon Kent, you crushed it with the Laine deal and Carrier has been great. Don't let this hot streak get in the way, move Savard while he has some value.

 

[RationalExpectations]

I had to go to the Chicago board to understand why they did the trade.

I think it's that ... Taylor Hall is so bad now, and so expensive, that they need to pay to get rid of him.

In a vacuum, they created 1.5m cap space getting a 3rd rounder. They also only have one retention spot left, maybe they did not want to use for Hall. Pretty sure they would have gotten more for Hall at 50% but who knows maybe other GMs were not interested…

 

[Treb]

Avs are trading future HOF'ers and Montreal can't figure out what to do with Savard and held onto Barron like he was the second coming of Bobby Orr. Imagine the load they could have got for Price if they let him goto a contender instead of sucking the life out of him the last 8 years.

Anyhoo.. c'mon Kent, you crushed it with the Laine deal and Carrier has been great. Don't let this hot streak get in the way, move Savard while he has some value.

Am I the only one finding it funny to criticizes Hughes for holding on Barron and then praising him for the Carrier trade?

 

[Habs Icing]

Kirby Dachanen

Actually, it would be Kurvikas Ankka (curvy duck) in Finnish.

 

[DAChampion]

Am I the only one finding it funny to criticizes Hughes for holding on Barron and then praising him for the Carrier trade?

That post you're quoting looks like complaining for complaining's sake.