HF Habs: Trade Proposal Thread #90: 2024-2025 season part III

[DAChampion]

Cool ! You can guess what happened in the past

Dylan Holloway was obvious at the time though.

 

[Beendair Donedat]

Dylan Holloway was obvious at the time though.

Mentioned it more than a few times. Living in Edmonton, I saw a lot of him, and knew he had all the tools, just needed to take that next step. Wish we would have picked him up, this team needs big fast players that can forecheck.

 

[Beendair Donedat]

Sitting here, wide awake, playing pretend GM, I came up with a couple of different names I haven’t heard mentioned with the Habs and thought I’d share some late night thoughts.

One name I keep circling back on is Lawson Crouse. He seems like a prime “buy low” and profit type candidate. He’s only 27 years old and is a big, power forward at 6’4, 215 lbs, on a down year, recently being made a healthy scratch by Utah.

He can hit (has consistently had more than our most physical forward Josh Anderson), he can fight and he can score. I think he’d be a solid pickup for the Habs, and fits well with their budget (he’s making 4 million per for another 2 years after this) and what Gorton and Hughes are looking for in a player. He’s worn an “A” for years as a Coyote, and is known as a solid leader. I’d take a chance on him, and bring him in as a complementary winger.

Assuming the Habs are comfortable in giving Owen Beck the fourth line center role, I’d offer:

To Utah: Jake Evans

To Montreal: Lawson Crouse and 2025 2nd round pick.

Habs give up the cheaper player at the more difficult position while getting a second for the added years on Crouse’s deal. Utah gets the center depth they badly need. Both teams walk away happy.

UFA signing:
Morgan Geekie. Yes he’s a hated Bruin, and yes he’s a right handed shot, but as a guy who has broken out in the last couple of years, he seems like an excellent pickup for relatively cheap money. He has great size, good speed, slick hands and isn’t afraid to go to the dirty areas. Solid defensively and a decent penalty killer. He could easily center our second line next year.

Potential lineup in 2025-2026:

Crouse - Suzuki - Caufield
Demidov - Geekie - Slafkovsky
Heineman - Dach - Laine
Newhook - Beck - Anderson

Hutson - Matheson
Guhle - Carrier
Xhekaj - Reinbacher/Mailloux

Montembeault
Dobes

 

[Weltschmerz]

Sitting here, wide awake, playing pretend GM, I came up with a couple of different names I haven’t heard mentioned with the Habs and thought I’d share some late night thoughts.

One name I keep circling back on is Lawson Crouse. He seems like a prime “buy low” and profit type candidate. He’s only 27 years old and is a big, power forward at 6’4, 215 lbs, on a down year, recently being made a healthy scratch by Utah.

He can hit (has consistently had more than our most physical forward Josh Anderson), he can fight and he can score. I think he’d be a solid pickup for the Habs, and fits well with their budget (he’s making 4 million per for another 2 years after this) and what Gorton and Hughes are looking for in a player. He’s worn an “A” for years as a Coyote, and is known as a solid leader. I’d take a chance on him, and bring him in as a complementary winger.

Assuming the Habs are comfortable in giving Owen Beck the fourth line center role, I’d offer:

To Utah: Jake Evans

To Montreal: Lawson Crouse and 2025 2nd round pick.

Habs give up the cheaper player at the more difficult position while getting a second for the added years on Crouse’s deal. Utah gets the center depth they badly need. Both teams walk away happy.

UFA signing:
Morgan Geekie. Yes he’s a hated Bruin, and yes he’s a right handed shot, but as a guy who has broken out in the last couple of years, he seems like an excellent pickup for relatively cheap money. He has great size, good speed, slick hands and isn’t afraid to go to the dirty areas. Solid defensively and a decent penalty killer. He could easily center our second line next year.

Potential lineup in 2025-2026:

Crouse - Suzuki - Caufield
Demidov - Geekie - Slafkovsky
Heineman - Dach - Laine
Newhook - Beck - Anderson

Hutson - Matheson
Guhle - Carrier
Xhekaj - Reinbacher/Mailloux

Montembeault
Dobes

Why is Utah shopping for a rental?

 

[HabbyGuy]

Just for shits and giggles, what would it take to get Shane Wright for our 2C spot?

 

[HuGort]

What is your reaction if we trade Newhook and Reinbacher for Cozens?

Or Reinbacher for Cozens straight up? Can’t imagine we don’t send a contract the other way

Just wondering what we would think about that kind of move?

I'm tired of trying to develop another team's problem child. It rarely works out. We tried that with Dach, Barron, Laine, Newhook.

Better off keeping your own draft picks and develop them.

 

[salbutera]

I'm tired of trying to develop another team's problem child. It rarely works out. We tried that with Dach, Barron, Laine, Newhook.

Better off keeping your own draft picks and develop them.

75% of 1st rounders don’t even play a single NHL game

Those types of moves are made in hopes of achieving higher success probability

 

[ReHabs]

Just for shits and giggles, what would it take to get Shane Wright for our 2C spot?

Are you prepared to give up Slafkovsky+ and beg them to take your call and not hang up?

And then beg Wright to forgive the hideous and cruel things Habs fans and Habs media said and implied about him over the past three years?

I don’t think there’s a fit there.

 

[ReHabs]

75% of 1st rounders don’t even play a single NHL game

Those types of moves are made in hopes of achieving higher success probability

It makes sense to go for the “proven” NHL talent over magic beans but when they cost first round picks in the first place, are older, are busted or castoffs, and unproven as reliable players… what’s the point?

Would anyone do the Newhook trade knowing he produces as another Drouin at best? No. Would anyone trade the 13OA for Dach knowing he can’t really play C and has dubious upside given his injury troubles? I hope not.

 

[HuGort]

75% of 1st rounders don’t even play a single NHL game

Those types of moves are made in hopes of achieving higher success probability

Stastics show you are better off trading your first round pick each year. Generally on draft floor for maximum value. Not always though. But trading them for somebody else's head aches are a no-no.

The FourthPeriod. Not exactly a good source but there is no reason that Zegras isn't available.

Zegras another team's headaches. Be another mistake.