HF Habs: Trade Proposal Thread #91: 2025 Trade Deadline edition

[sampollock]

KH will not get a RD D or 2C until draft or summer

 

[lamp9post]

I'm ok with given up Beck, Kapanen is better player anyways. No way I give up Hage in a deal for Zegras though.

I wouldn't target Zegras at all personally, unless he can be had for 'reclamation project' pricing. I'd do Dach for Zegras, but I'm not including our top prospects or first round picks.

 

[BergevinBurner]

This is the issue with Dylan Cozens - $7,100,000 Cap Hit per season. Too big a risk


This is the issue with Dylan Cozens - $7,100,000 Cap Hit per season. Too big a risk

Any young established 2C out there that we could realistically trade for is going to have a risk in some regard. But if prime Cozens is a ~60 point, physical center that's good at faceoffs then I'd have no problem paying 7 million for that with the cap set to sky rocket.

 

[WeThreeKings]

I wouldn't target Zegras at all personally, unless he can be had for 'reclamation project' pricing. I'd do Dach for Zegras, but I'm not including our top prospects or first round picks.

I wouldn't even do a reclamation project for him. He's not at all what we need.

We need a 2C with jam and some defensive conscience to him.

 

[schwang26]

At best I think Hughes will add depth players at the deadline (which he should do). I think it’s going to be a boring day for us.

 

[Habssince89]

KH will not get a RD D or 2C until draft or summer

I can see him getting a middle6 C to shore up the team the rest of the way, and then make a bigger splash for a bonafide top6 C in the summer, having the middle6 C slide down to 3C, with Evans at 4C (let beck cook)

 

[WeThreeKings]

At best I think Hughes will add depth players at the deadline (which he should do). I think it’s going to be a boring day for us.

I think he might wager in and pick up Gourde or something like that. There should be a desire to return Beck to Laval. He's not really offensively ready for the role he's in.

 

[HomaridII]

 

[TheArch]

It wouldn't surprise me if the 2C position remains unfilled by starting of next season. Not a lot of good options in the UFA market, and not obvious which teams currently not rebuilding will enter a rebuild this summer. Even so, rebuilding teams rarely part with mid-20s centers given how difficult they are to find. If you look around the league every year there are good teams starting without good 2C, Winnipeg and Colorado immediately come to mind as good teams who've started multiple seasons in recent years without a 2C only to try and acquire one by trade as a rental or short term solution.

One good option, Matt Duchesne. You may be able to get him for 2 years for too much money if HuGo can't get a long term C.

 

[Pompeius Magnus]

Neither are an improvement over what we already have IMO. We should be aiming higher than that or why even bother.

 

[schwang26]

I think he might wager in and pick up Gourde or something like that. There should be a desire to return Beck to Laval. He's not really offensively ready for the role he's in.

He’s pretty small. I know there may not be much to choose from though.

 

[red devil]

The no asshole in Dallas

 

[le_sean]

Damn those would be two great pieces for them.

The no asshole in Dallas

Isn’t their captain Jamie Benn?

 

[WeThreeKings]

He’s pretty small. I know there may not be much to choose from though.

Yeah it ain't a long term thing. Just a stop gap but looks like TB is grabbing Gourde.

 

[Team_Spirit]

Beck isn't going anywhere certainly not for a guy that just got beat up by K f***ing K. Just be patient he will be alright.

Winners only

 

[Non Player Canadiens]

The no asshole in Dallas

also Stars: team captain is Jamie Benn

edit: damn @le_sean beat me to it

 

[Leon Lucius Black]

The no asshole in Dallas

Need to start spreading lies on how Wyatt Johnston is a huge asshole then.

 

[Catanddogguitarrr]

If we're trading for a young, cost controlled 2nd line C it is hard to imagine the package going the other way would not include Hage or Beck.

Or maybe 2 1rst and one of Mailloux, Ghule, Xhekaj, Reinbacher, Hage and Beck. Maybe Dach if we are lucky. I think 90% Hage and Rein are out of tradable material for Hughes.

 

[bonneaug]

Not much going on around the league at pretty much 48h of the trade deadline.

Good, I took Friday off just for that

But TBH the blockbusters always happen one or two days prior, hopefully we have a change of pace this year haha

 

[jellybeans]

I wouldn't target Zegras at all personally, unless he can be had for 'reclamation project' pricing. I'd do Dach for Zegras, but I'm not including our top prospects or first round picks.

Dach won't get you Zegras not even close but i do agree with you that we should stay away from Zegras

 

[lamp9post]

I wouldn't even do a reclamation project for him. He's not at all what we need.

We need a 2C with jam and some defensive conscience to him.

I agree. Especially when Demidov comes over next year, I'd like a more reliable option with the characteristics you've outlined. Dach and Laine just don't seem like a good fit.

 

[Catanddogguitarrr]

I keep hitting refresh and I still haven't seen our new 2C announced. Must be something wrong with my interwebs machine I guess

I have an apply that warns me by ringing a loud "Lacuracha song" on all the 38 speakers I have in my manoir. I'm awaiting that Lacuracha so badly my doctor tells me to cool down.

 

[CHwest]

Barzal would cost a fortune, don't like Cozens but would take a chance on Zegras if the price was right

Zegras is a problem child.

 

[TheArch]

I agree I think he could flourish in Montreal the question is what do you need to give up to get him?

I assume all trades start with Logan Mailloux.
Would a 2nd rounder, Alex Newhook and Mailloux be enough to get Zegras?


Montreal also needs a winger to round out that 2nd line ??? Zegras Laine

Heineman.

 

[Pompeius Magnus]

Zegras feels all wrong style wise with what we'll have on the roster next season. He's not the right fit IMO. That and he's not much of a center.