Proposal: Buffalo - Montreal

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Lockin17

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The Sabres are looking good now with their line up. (they have to sign Skinner)
They need to start winning and make the Playoff next year.

MTL is at 1 or 2 years to be a great team with prospect comming up.

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BUFF : 7th overall first pick (Philip Broberg or Bowen Byram)

MTL : Drouin

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Buff gets a great RW to play with Eichel
Drouin - Eichel - Reinhart

MTL get a future D for their *None official Rebuild*
MTL need to make room for Poehling/Suzuki/Ylonen pushing to make the line up.
 

Hockeyholic

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The Sabres are looking good now with their line up. (they have to sign Skinner)
They need to start winning and make the Playoff next year.

MTL is at 1 or 2 years to be a great team with prospect comming up.

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BUFF : 7th overall first pick (Philip Broberg or Bowen Byram)

MTL : Drouin

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Buff gets a great RW to play with Eichel
Drouin - Eichel - Reinhart

MTL get a future D for their *None official Rebuild*
MTL need to make room for Poehling/Suzuki/Ylonen pushing to make the line up.

There are plenty of great players in the league. Drouin isn't remotely close to being said great player.
 

jfhabs

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There are plenty of great players in the league. Drouin isn't remotely close to being said great player.
He's a good player with the talent to be great, just needs to put it together. The player picked 7th overall has as much chance of being a great player, but also has chance of being worse.
 

Patagonia

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Trade seems reasonable, but doubt either team agrees.

HABs don’t want to just dump him for a pick. Maybe consider after next season. BUF is still years away, so unless they can get cheap players during the rebuild, they keep their pick.
 

koyvoo

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Look at the past 10-20 years of players picked in this range. Many don’t become stars. Many become fringe NHLers. Lol, before the draft most (on these forums) feel the top 20 picks in a draft will become 1st liners.
 
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HockeyDBspecialist

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People saying Drouin is not worth a top 10 picks.... The kid did 3 seasons in the 50's and has the ceiling of 1ppg.

It was the same with Domi, "he's worth nothing, he's bad, blablabla"

Just because he is a habs doesn't mean Drouin doesn't have value.
I think the deal is fair but I wouldn't pay Broberg for Drouin straight up, this year is not the best year for D.
 

WingsMJN2965

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7th overall for a head case like Drouin?

PASS.

EDIT: Also, Broberg's stock is falling, and if Byram makes it to Detroit, he sure as shit ain't making it past Detroit.
 

Super Hans

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Buffalo is the last place I'd look for an underachieving young player "to find his game". This is the trade equivalent of hiring Phil Housley to be your coach.
 

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People saying Drouin is not worth a top 10 picks.... The kid did 3 seasons in the 50's and has the ceiling of 1ppg.

It was the same with Domi, "he's worth nothing, he's bad, blablabla"

Just because he is a habs doesn't mean Drouin doesn't have value.
I think the deal is fair but I wouldn't pay Broberg for Drouin straight up, this year is not the best year for D.

Because he hasn't done anything to suggest he's worth a top 10 pick, who may not even become as good as Drouin, but still risk you take when you're not a competitive team. Ceiling is great, when you reach it, or look to be on track, but Drouin hasn't shown that, yet. I wouldn't trade a #7 for a 50 point player. Just like I wouldn't expect a 50 point player like Kreider getting a top 10 pick. That doesn't mean the player has no value. It means the player isn't going for a top 10 pick.
 

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The Sabres are looking good now with their line up. (they have to sign Skinner)
They need to start winning and make the Playoff next year.

MTL is at 1 or 2 years to be a great team with prospect comming up.

-

BUFF : 7th overall first pick (Philip Broberg or Bowen Byram)

MTL : Drouin

-

Buff gets a great RW to play with Eichel
Drouin - Eichel - Reinhart

MTL get a future D for their *None official Rebuild*
MTL need to make room for Poehling/Suzuki/Ylonen pushing to make the line up.

Sabres have great players but no depth. Swiss cheese roster with holes all over the place.
 

Shnooks

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Buffalo is the last place I'd look for an underachieving young player "to find his game". This is the trade equivalent of hiring Phil Housley to be your coach.
You mean like Jeff Skinner, who just had a career season?
 

Shnooks

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Look at the past 10-20 years of players picked in this range. Many don’t become stars. Many become fringe NHLers. Lol, before the draft most (on these forums) feel the top 20 picks in a draft will become 1st liners.
Zegras will be just as good as Drouin...Boldy and Caufield probably will too.
 

koyvoo

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Zegras will be just as good as Drouin...Boldy and Caufield probably will too.
Possibly. But around here people fail to realize that for as many players (even early in the 1st round) who live up to their pre draft potential, there’s an equal amount who don’t come close to it. Just take the player being discussed here (Drouin) as a perfect example.

Is this going to be the first draft in history where all of the top 10 picks meet their pre draft potential?
 

HockeyDBspecialist

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Because he hasn't done anything to suggest he's worth a top 10 pick, who may not even become as good as Drouin, but still risk you take when you're not a competitive team. Ceiling is great, when you reach it, or look to be on track, but Drouin hasn't shown that, yet. I wouldn't trade a #7 for a 50 point player. Just like I wouldn't expect a 50 point player like Kreider getting a top 10 pick. That doesn't mean the player has no value. It means the player isn't going for a top 10 pick.

you and other people talk like he achieved 40 points 1 time like yakupov. He didint... do you know how many players score in te 50's bellow 23 years old ?
 

Legend123

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Drouin is already better and certainly has more potential if he can somehow put it all tgtr.
However, with that said, i would trade him for a top 7 pick.
 

SpeakingOfTheDevils

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People saying Drouin is not worth a top 10 picks.... The kid did 3 seasons in the 50's and has the ceiling of 1ppg.

It was the same with Domi, "he's worth nothing, he's bad, blablabla"

Just because he is a habs doesn't mean Drouin doesn't have value.
I think the deal is fair but I wouldn't pay Broberg for Drouin straight up, this year is not the best year for D.

The persecution complex is beyond old. Being hesitant to pay a premium for Drouin has nothing to do with the team he plays for.

It has everything to do with Habs fans wanting pie-in-the-sky returns for a player they PROMISE is better than what he has shown.

Drouin's scoring at a 0.6PPG pace getting top minutes in Montreal; how can you definitively say that he has a "PPG ceiling"? He certainly could end up at that level, but you can't assert that as fact and then market Drouin accordingly.

No team is going to gamble on Drouin's upside at the cost of a top-10 pick.
 
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