Tribute Congratulations Kent Hughes for the best trade deadline in recent Habs history!

[the]

Tremendous work by Gorton and Hughes. Really proud of both of them and the standard of excellence they are bringing back to this team. We are really fortunate to have someone as knowledgeable as Gorton.

 

[Tyson]

Very well pleased with this deadline!

With additions of Barron, Smilinac and Heineman we must have one of best farms in NHL. It was above average when Bergs left.

Plus we have 13 picks in this upcoming draft. With Toffoli, Lehkonen and Chiarot traded clears 11 million in caproom for this summer.

And it could be the 1st overall pick

 

[Price is Wright]

I wasn't crazy about the Toffoli deal but everything else has been great.

 

[417]

That is quite the haul. It's clear that there is a direction in place.

Those picks allow the habs to also make some hockey trades over the summer if any young, nhl ready talent become available.

Guaranteed their parlaying some of those picks into NHL players

 

[Nevins]

Let's recap:

Out:

- Tyler Toffoli
- Ben Chiarot
- Brett Kulak
- Arthuri Lehkonen
- Andrew Hammond

In:

- CGY 2022 1st round pick (top 10 protected)
- CGY 2025 5th round pick
- FLA 2023 1st round pick (unprotected)
- NYR 2022 4th round pick
- EDM 2023 2nd round pick
- COL 2024 2nd round pick
- Justin Barron
- Ty Smilanic
- Emil Heineman
- Tyler Pitlick
- Nate Schnarr

CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY return.

Well done my good sir!

Agreed

 

[Lshap]

Man... for the last decade we've been navigating by sniffing the foliage, now suddenly we discover Google Maps. Talk about a directional shift...

 

[BLONG7]

Huge day for HuGo

 

[Nevins]

Welcome in Montréal Justin Barron:

 

[Clearedwaivers]

So refreshing to see competence and direction at the top.

 

[Justin11]

Well done. Still the draft and the offseason to go. So far, so good.

 

[Spearmint Rhino]

This is so refreshing for a TDL instead of the Merril Staal and Dwight King useless trades.

Or not getting anything for Tatar

 

[BLONG7]

Man... for the last decade we've been navigating by sniffing the foliage, now suddenly we discover Google Maps. Talk about a directional shift...

First time in 10 years we actually picked a direction to take

 

[Eco]

Can't believe we got a A type of prospect in exchange for Lehkonen!! Great job by Hughes and Gorton!!

I think this is what surprised me the most on today. Floored.

 

[Redux91]

I legit LOVE the bosses identifying our huge need at RD very soon
I bet Barrons already better than f***ing Widemand and Savard lmao

We were absolutely stacked at LD, but RD had the tank commanders Petry Savard and Wideman aaaaand basically only Logan Mailloux in the system

This adds great depth and a potential 2nd pairing D at RD, its huge

The superstar RD will only be able to be had at the draft (top 5) or a huge fish in UFA, so this is a pretty great get

 

[the]

Man... for the last decade we've been navigating by sniffing the foliage, now suddenly we discover Google Maps. Talk about a directional shift...

Couldn’t have said it any better. We really deserve it after enduring that crap Bergevin era for a decade.

 

[nhlfan9191]

Stage 1 of cleaning up Bergevin’s dumpster fire complete. Now we need to improve our drafting and figure out to do with some of the bad contracts but this is a really promising start. I guess we see where this leads.

 

[Andy]

Man, the Dwight King trade from a few years ago has really scarred some of you LOL.

 

[HuGo Burner Acc]

The 2017 Trade deadline will forever be a meme haha

 

[Tyson]

This is so refreshing for a TDL instead of the Merril Staal and Dwight King useless trades.

@HabsWhiteKnightLOL
You were right about your opinions on trading players like Lehkonen.

 

[hardcorehabs]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA++++++++++++++++++++++

 

[McGuires Corndog]

My goodness what a TDL.

I’m a Huge fan of Hugo right now. Amazing job thus far

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

@HabsWhiteKnightLOL
You were right about your opinions on trading players like Lehkonen.

The only thing i did not nail was Kulak giving us a 2nd pick , i expected a third.
Bottom 6 player for a potential top 4 dman on the right that we lack hard in the system is a complete steal.

 

[japhi]

Great TDL. And it's not like we lacked picks or prospects, that haul is on top of having a top 10 pool + a stacked 2023 draft.

 

[Prairie Habs]

HuGo have obviously been killing it, but MB also deserves a golf clap for adding toffoli, chiarot, and kulak all for essentially nothing to give these guys the ammo to make trades.

Very happy our recent relative success hasn't changed the plan and we are still building things the right way.

 

[MSLs absurd thighs]

I would assume that Jeff Petry is going to get traded around the NHL Entry Draft this summer, along with maybe one of Drouin or Hoffman. I would expect the rest of the guys to stay here for the time being, and to be honest it's all right.

It's not the return as much as the willingness to engage in a direction that delights me about the way Hughes handled this trade deadline. This indicates he has a clear plan in his mind. Something I couldn't say about Bergevin in his decade-long tenure in Montreal. Sure, the guy made some decent moves here and there, but in the end, there was no clear direction taken at any point.

Props to Hughes and Gorton. I feel like we're in good hands now.