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

[HuGort]

I'd trade Dach. He's just not getting the center position at all. He's so so bad defensively. I'd give him the rest of the year & trade him at the draft.

Philadelphia is desperate for centers, so maybe we can use him for their 1st round pick this year if it's top 10, which it should be.

Resign Evans, and come back next year with Suzuki, Kapanen, Beck & Evans. We need a stop gap centre until Hage is ready. I'm not sure Kapanen & Beck are top 6 C.

It would be really, really helpful if we could draft Misa as I think he can step into the #2C spot right away.

Hagens should go back to college for another year like Cooley, but imo, he's only a year away.

That's a lot of youth at center. Sign a skilled veteran with experience to blend with them. A Duchene or Giroux type.

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

That's a lot of youth at center. Sign a skilled veteran with experience to blend with them. A Duchene or Giroux type.

Pretty useless to sign those guys. We need a long term top 6 center who can feed laine and Demidov. Can't wait for Hage if he will get there. We have picks and prospects enough to make that kind of trade. Even if we have to overpay . This team needs help Suzuki can't be the only center to eo everything offensively. He's getting pinned down by all shutdown lines because teams knows we have nothing else.

 

[Habs Halifax]

...I'd say Mailloux is more of our (hopeful) Dobson-type...Reinbacher, if he's as good as he was made out to be, will probably be our defensive guy paired with Hutson...unfortunately, that may be years away...

Yeah, the timing has me ponding about it. Same with Barron... I think he will become a top 4D but how long will it take? Hopefully Mailloux is ahead of that curve. The skating/size/shot and offensive vision is there.

Who was better in the AHL defensively (D zone ability)? Barron or Mailloux? I have not watched many Laval games.

 

[Habs Halifax]

yeah I dont think Dobson is exactly what is needed here, and the huge cost to acquire will make it difficult to swallow the not so perfect fit. I think Nemec would be the best bet...and after that, there is like 0 youngish steady RD that could be available, those are very very rare!

So I looked up around the league which team has a surplus of center, and one of them that would be a great fit is Anaheim. They have Carlsson-Strome-Gauthier-Zegras-Mctavish-Lunderstrom that could all play center. the Zegras topic has been beaten to death but what about Mctavish? Id be ok paying more for Mctavish!

Problem is, they kinda need RDs as well.. and I dont think Dach + Mailloux would do it, id throw one of our 1st as well but I still dont think they would bite

I think we all like Dobson but I keep going back to our D core missing defensive studs (with me, it comes down to Reinbacher or Dobson). Nice to have both but we really do need more defensive studs and we don't have a lot of proven guys defensively yet. That guy is only Guhle right now. Hopefully Xhekaj can improve more... it's been a better year for him this year vs last so I do have faith he develops more and more and is mature come 25+. I like his fighting ability but I prefer and value his physical presence and steady D play more. He has to continue to focus and be hungry to improve in that area.

Dobson is also going to ask for a contract we might not like.

One option which appears not attractive right now is Xhekaj moving to RD to play with Hutson.... When Xhekaj is fully mature. Something to consider later (maybe)

Nemec is very well rounded (I believe anyways). Devils probably are holding onto his #2 OA value so cost may be too high. Lets see how the Devils manage their RD side. I know they want to keep Kova but they might have a Evans situation on their hands... both players looking for their bag of money after being on value contracts at the first half of their career. No doubt in my mind that their agents are advising them to use the UFA card with a much higher cap.

I'm a big fan of McTavish but I just don't see the Ducks trading their physical center. They probably ask for Slaf or have him on the untouchable list.

 

[Habs Halifax]

Pretty useless to sign those guys. We need a long term top 6 center who can feed laine and Demidov. Can't wait for Hage if he will get there. We have picks and prospects enough to make that kind of trade. Even if we have to overpay . This team needs help Suzuki can't be the only center to eo everything offensively. He's getting pinned down by all shutdown lines because teams knows we have nothing else.

Duchene for 2 years might not be a bad play though. That's basically Hage's development time.

Giroux? NO. His skating is not good enough to play center. Duchene can still skate