Friedman: "If I'm the Edmonton Oilers, I'm calling the Montreal Canadiens and asking for Max Pacioretty"

[Captain Mountain]

For montreals sake i hope you are right

Well, He's at 6-4-10 and is on pace for 30+ goals again with the lowest shooting percentage of his career and one of the lowest on-ice shooting percentages of his career. He'll be and is fine. He started off the season worse last year.

 

[beowulf]

This is why you don't make knee jerk trades. Dude is heating up and I believe 2 of his 6 goals are game winners.

 

[Mallard]

Gallagher for Puljujarvi and a 1st.

You sure that's enough from Edmonton?

 

[PatrikOverAuston]

Habs fans know this thread is about Max Pacioretty and not Max Bentley right?

 

[Whileee]

I think the Oilers would end up regretting any trade they make that involves Puljujarvi now.

 

[Habs Icing]

I'm probably the biggest Pacioretty hater on the Habs board and even I know that Pacioretty is better than RNH by a fair margain. Not barely as you say. That's rediculous.

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No, you're not. I am! Stop bragging. BTW I agree with the rest of your post.

 

[Habs Icing]

To MTL: RNH + Lucic + Puljujarvi
To EDM: Pacioretty + Galchenyuk

You keep Lucic and we keep Galchenyuk and we got ourselves a deal.

 

[Habs Icing]

Patches doesn't know how to spell the word "intensity"

He doesn't have to know. He makes enough dough to get someone to spell it out for him.

 

[tempest2i]

You keep Lucic and we keep Galchenyuk and we got ourselves a deal.

Nuge + Puljujarvi for Pacioretty?

Yeah... that's not going to happen for a variety of reasons.

 

[THall4]

Assuming a decent cap increase, no, it's not written in stone RNH has to go.

He also said that other measures can be looked at if salary needs to be moved out...its not a foregone conclusion that Nuge will be the cap casualty. BUT he is the most valuable of the secondary pcs that can be moved...esp with his play thus far.

 

[Habs Icing]

Nuge + Puljujarvi for Pacioretty?

Yeah... that's not going to happen for a variety of reasons.

No hard feelings. You ain't getting Patches for less than that.

 

[tempest2i]

No hard feelings. You ain't getting Patches for less than that.

No hard feelings taken.

My comment had little to do with value and a lot more to do with the team's needs and make up of the roster.

Ignoring value for a moment, just the concept of adding another top 6 LW (welcome to the 3rd line Lucic or Maroon), while removing a RW prospect (position of need) on an ELC (extremely important for the team) and the team's current 2C (pls welcome your new 2C, Ryan Strome!) is very unlikely to make the team better now or in the future.

 

[ChaoticOrange]

He also said that other measures can be looked at if salary needs to be moved out...its not a foregone conclusion that Nuge will be the cap casualty. BUT he is the most valuable of the secondary pcs that can be moved...esp with his play thus far.

I don't even want to think about our 2nd through 4th lines without Nugent Hopkins.

I think a much more likely scenario is Maroon is allowed to walk in free agency, Strome isn't qualified but possibly re-signed (like Schultz in Pittsburgh) and Letestu is re-signed cheaper than he's making now considering he'll be 35.

Roll with something like this next year:

Neal-McDavid-Yamamoto
Lucic-Drai-Puljujarvi
Hansen-RNH-Strome

The free agent class is pretty solid. Overpaying for wingers isn't smart at all.

 

[CaptainCrunch67]

Are you talking about James Neal,

Neal-McDavid-Yamamoto
Lucic-Drai-Puljujarvi
Hansen-RNH-Strome

He's probably getting 6 or more on the open market. So your talking

about 20.5 for the first line
at least 15.5 on the second line
11 on the third line
So a total of about 47 million bucks
let say 5 to 6 on the fourth line so now your at 53 million

On your blueline you have Nurse playing really well so he's probably looking at 4.5 to add to Sekera's 5, Klefbom, Larsson and Russell making about a combined 12 so what about 21 million. You still need another defenseman so add 2. So now your total is about $73 million, right, and you still need to add Talbots 4 and probably a back up at 1 to 2. I doubt the cap is going to go up all that much this year, so your lineup is over the cap probably by 2 to 3 million right.

 

[Deebs]

Go big:

To MTL: Lucic, Klefbom, Russell
To EDM: Weber, Pacioretty

lol...what is this garbage

 

[DingDongCharlie]

You keep Lucic and we keep Galchenyuk and we got ourselves a deal.

Keep Galchenyuk we keep RNH and add our 2018 1st.

Lucic, Puljujarvi and 2018 1st for Patches

 

[Runner77]

Hey we would like your 30 goal scorer but we'll tell you how much he sucks and that we have nothing we're willing to give up for him.

It's the premise of every thread started on this forum. They ought to have it automatically appear as the first message of every post.

They didn't get any impact NHLers. They got two good prospects, some picks, and a throw in goalie. Colorado got a good package but it's 100% futures.

You were claiming that Sakic was having all kind of trouble trying to make a move -- and you weren't wrong. Except that Sakic got a lot more than most anticipated. In the end, he reaped by being patient. As far as who won the trade, it's not always evident from the get-go but FWIW, most pundits appear to believe he got quite a haul. What you call "some picks" are a 1st, 2nd and 3rd round picks in a deep draft. Suits Colorado's identity as a rebuilding club.

 

[Vancouver Canucks]

Keep Galchenyuk we keep RNH and add our 2018 1st.

Lucic, Puljujarvi and 2018 1st for Patches

Not many want RNH, anyways.

 

[Habs Icing]

Keep Galchenyuk we keep RNH and add our 2018 1st.

Lucic, Puljujarvi and 2018 1st for Patches

I don't want Lucic.

 

[DingDongCharlie]

Not many want RNH, anyways.

Good cause he’s finally play solid, producing points and gotten good in the circle while playing tough matchups. I could care less if there’s a market for a #2 24 yr old centre I’d wish to retain