Rumor: Habs Inquired about Loui Eriksson's availability?

[WickedPegJets]

I don't believe the rumor because at Bergevin's post trade deadline press conference he said he wanted to get younger and faster. So then he "may have looked" into acquiring a player who turns 33 in July, with another 4 years at $6million? Yet he was listening on his 29 year old Captain? So are you getting younger? No. Are you getting faster? No. So why lie to the fans again? That is why people are on here pissed off.

Question: What goes up but never comes down? Your age.

 

[WickedPegJets]

Gallagher's value is high, trade him at the draft.

Gally is Theo Fleury II and what team doesn’t value a sparkplug who went bloody with PK Subban?

 

[Halakitlikethat]

Sure. Either retain half of it or retain $1m and give us your 2018 1st.

Was gonna post this. Id do it if we get the 1st or Pettersson

 

[McGuires Corndog]

To be honest there's nothing wrong with inquiring. There's everything wrong with accepting if you're just eating the contract. The report says it went nowhere because Bergevin wanted Vancouver to take some of the cap hit and they wouldn't. That tells me that if he tried to do an Alzner for Eriksson -$2M swap, Vancouver was having none of it.

To be honest, this is the most troubling thing.

It clearly indicates a man who has not learnt a damn thing from his past mistakes. He’s still out there haggling, wheeling and dealing trying to snatch up his next reclamation project.

It’s the same pattern with Bergevin, over and over and over again. It’s no wonder he’s one of the most active GMs and has one of the highest trade totals amongst all teams since 2012.. This guy is LITERALLY the NHL’s very own garbage man.

Eriksson solves nothing for us. At 6M a year, 4M a year... Hell I don’t even know if I’d take him at 2M a year. He produces at the same rate as Andrew Shaw, and gives you a far less inspiring performance. We all want Shaw gone at 3.9.

Bergevin needs to stop rooting through other people’s trash.

 

[McGuires Corndog]

I don't believe the rumor because at Bergevin's post trade deadline press conference he said he wanted to get younger and faster. So then he "may have looked" into acquiring a player who turns 33 in July, with another 4 years at $6million? Yet he was listening on his 29 year old Captain? So are you getting younger? No. Are you getting faster? No. So why lie to the fans again? That is why people are on here pissed off.

Wouldn’t be the first time Bergevin trades a player and replaces him with a lesser player 4 years older. Why expect any different?

 

[Price is Wright]

Bergevin needs to stop rooting through other people’s trash.

Or he needs to root their trash and get draft picks out of picking up their awful players because this club is going nowhere for a long time.

You are correct on the bigger problem, which is calling for Eriksson in thinking he could bring this team back to the playoffs. But if I'm a GM I call every team for their situation on every player and see how it fits my plans. If I can get Eriksson and they will take Alzner but I get their first in 2018 and a second in 2019 for it? I'm not asking for cap to be taken back. But if they don't want any cap taken back and want a team to take him with no cap held back they better be giving me Pettersson or I'm hanging up. But I'm still going to call.

 

[JianYang]

Why

Only logical explanation is that the Habs would use their cap space to take a bad contract off of someone's hands for picks/future assets.

 

[DXStriker]

Lololololololol
An anchor for a WINGER lol unless MB was asking for VAN 1st rnd or Petersson than I dont know what to say anymore about MB .

We are dangerously close if not already there to becoming the Laffs pre Shanahan

 

[Scintillating10]

The Provies: The Stretcher, the JV18 secret sauce and the showdown with Friedman

Sounds like Habs tried to get extra draft pick out of Van by eating his contract.

 

[Vachon23]

if they take Alzner and Shaw yess I could be interested

 

[Koivu11]

Yeah let’s acquire one of the worst contracts in the league. Good idea.

 

[Vachon23]

Yeah let’s acquire one of the worst contracts in the league. Good idea.

for 2 bads ones yes why not

 

[Wats]

I'd take Erikson for Shaw/Alzner in a heartbeat.

 

[Per Sjoblom]

I am happy that he said no to the WC this year, his heart isn't in it anymore. He's too busy making babies (4th on the way).

 

[Habaneros]

God no.

Hemsky replacement...

 

[Habaneros]

I'd take Erikson for Shaw/Alzner in a heartbeat.

some wouldn't take any .....

 

[The Great Weal]

I'd do it for Alzner.

 

[BLONG7]

I'd take Erikson for Shaw/Alzner in a heartbeat.

For sure...........but the Nucks wouldn't do that........MB is stuck with his mistakes...and with this summer coming, do we want him to make more of these moronic mistakes?

 

[montreal]

Eriksson made 8M in salary this year. Ouch. He's owed 20M over the next 4 years (7M, 5, 4, 4)

Alzner made 6M in salary this year, what a joke. He's owed 17.25M over the next 4 years. f*** you MB. also he has a limited NTC, there's 7 teams he can't be traded to

Shaw made 5M in salary this year, but we need to hear about his injury status as he has had several concussions now. He's owed 12.9M over the next 4 years.

 

[ottawa]

Oh man that would have been SWEEEEEEEEEET!

Our long lasting hole at LW would have been filled. Thank god Bergevin isn't trying to pick up centres, who needs em!?

Centers don't get traded these days, this isn't playstation.

 

[ECWHSWI]

Gally is Theo Fleury II and what team doesn’t value a sparkplug who went bloody with PK Subban?

that's an insult to Fleury's talent...

 

[McGuires Corndog]

Must have the right “stuff”, the right “attitude”.

f*** off.

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

Unless we trade Shaw and Alzner for him

There is no way in hell its even true.

hes so bad

 

[WickedPegJets]

Peter Chiarelli of the Bruins basically exchanged Tyler Seguin for Loui Ericksson. That dumb trade plus signing Milan Lucic to a ludicrous 7-year, $6M per season contract cast doubts about his competence as a general manager.

 

[groovejuice]

that's an insult to Fleury's talent...

I completely agree. I had the great pleasure watching Fleury in Calgary hundreds of times. They're not similar players except for the floored accelerator.