Confirmed with Link: Canadiens acquire Jake Allen and a 7th-round pick in 2022 from the Blues in return for a 3rd and 7th

[montreal]

to pick up a 4.35M cap hit, I would not have given up a 3rd, maybe a 4th or 5th but at least we finally have legit backup for a change and he's a UFA although him or Lindgren will need to be re-signed for the expansion draft so we have someone to expose.

Plus it means hopefully they can't rush Primeau and he gets a full year in Laval as the start. A Primeau/Lindgren duo should be good enough to get us into the playoffs, just need to get better vets this off-season then they did last year.

 

[That Habs Fan]

All you guys saying great move are on crack.. We aren't paying a backup 4.3mil.. Price is on his way out in a much much bigger trade is my guess.

are we getting Lafreniere? Because otherwise...

Also, Allen only has 1 year remaining on his contract, and we have a tonne of cape space, relax.

 

[Kairi Zaide]

Allen finished 8th in the league for GSAx.

Despite playing 24 games.

Finally a decent backup for Price.

 

[ManofSteel55]

Why invest so much in G??

Especially when Price is still there

 

[WeThreeKings]

Niemi f***ed up the Habs 2018-19 season with his atrocious play. They would have made the playoffs with a legit backup. Last year's backups sucked just as much. The NHL is talking about an 82 game season starting in December. There's going to be an enormous amount of back-to-backs and the Habs can't keep throwing out garbage to give Price a break.

Have you seen the UFA goalie market? We could have paid any number of goalies the similar contract and not given up a top 90 pick.. it made sense if we were getting compensated. We are not. We are paying up to help another team out while free options were available.

 

[habsfan92]

This is a TERRIBLE trade.

So we spend 14 million in cap on GOALIES.
Blues are hurting to move salary OUT to retain their core.

And WE are giving up the compensation?

This direction also tells me what Bergevin is thinking.. so we are in for a terrible off-season. He's gonna f*** up our prospect pool and pick pool to over-correct on a Covid invitational dream..

Maybe Price is on the way out?

 

[sheed36]

I like the Habs picking up Allen but I don't like that the Habs didn't get anything else included for helping the Blues clear some much needed cap. Seems like the Habs could've used their valuable cap space to get another Armia type deal especially with so many teams against the cap this season.

Allen is a good pickup but it seems like it's a missed opportunity here to get another decent asset included like they did with Armia IMO.

 

[Kudo Shinichi]

Domi and Mete are the only guys needed to be re-signed

 

[Milhouse40]

By far the best backup Price had since he’s #1

By far the most pricy too....4.3 millions for a back-up.....

So now, we can forget about the Laine, Hall and using our most needed cap space for help on D and upfront.

For me it's not a good trade.

 

[HabbyGilmore]

Hopefully the next move is to ship Price out.
Doesn't make sense to me to trade a 3rd round pick to a team that needs to create cap space for a 4+ million back up goalie. Could have used the cap space to better use like the Marleau trade Carolina did.

agreed.. don't know why others aren't seeing the bigger picture here.

 

[Whitesnake]

All you guys saying great move are on crack.. We aren't paying a backup 4.3mil.. Price is on his way out in a much much bigger trade is my guess.

There's no reality where Jake Allen is a starter. So unless they idea is to tank, Price is not going anywhere.

 

[26Mats]

This is a TERRIBLE trade.

So we spend 14 million in cap on GOALIES.
Blues are hurting to move salary OUT to retain their core.

And WE are giving up the compensation?

This direction also tells me what Bergevin is thinking.. so we are in for a terrible off-season. He's gonna f*** up our prospect pool and pick pool to over-correct on a Covid invitational dream..

We have tons of cap space for the 2020-21 season and MB is reluctant to use it on contracts that go beyond 1 season, because of everyone he has to sign next summer. Chances are ver low this won't allow us to sign someone else we would have wanted.

 

[InglewoodJack]

Jake Allen's going to be just fine for us, further illustrating the point that investing top draft picks and 8 figure contracts into goalies is really f***ing stupid.

True, I will never forgive the Habs for drafting price over some real blue chippers like Gil Brule and Jack Skille

 

[WeThreeKings]

"Hey man.. I'm really in a bind, I need to get rid of this..."

"Sure, I'll PAY you to DO you a favor"

It's just stupid.

 

[le_sean]

Have you seen the UFA goalie market? We could have paid any number of goalies the similar contract and not given up a top 90 pick.. it made sense if we were getting compensated. We are not. We are paying up to help another team out while free options were available.

Which of those goalies is going to sign for one year? You'd have a point if Allen had extra years on his contract, but he doesn't.

You also need to expose a goalie at the expansion draft. Allen can be that goalie.

 

[Kwikwi]

Wish we had Crawford but health wise hes not a sure bet.

We wont spend to the cap next year forget it.

and tons of 2 games in 2 night coming next season

 

[angusyoung]

Hopefully Jordan Harris, Norlinder, and Cale Fleury have something to say about that. With a little luck Hillis too.

A quick peek at 3rd rounders shows less than 50% even make it and of those have very little games played,exceptions of course. Just wouldn't get all up in arms bout losing a 3rd round pick is all.

 

[Spearmint Rhino]

Allen was on my wish list but had hoped to get a sweetener with him like we did with Mason. Guess his good stint in the playoffs raised the price. Maybe an asset we can flip at the TDL to recover something extra and gives us a legit back up til Primeau is ready. Ok with the deal

 

[David Suzuki]

The « were paying 14 million for goalies » would hold lot more wait if allen didnt have one year left lol

 

[Supersonic]

Price with his contract isn’t going anywhere.

We either provide him with quality backups (Allen this year, Primeau moving forward) or we don’t.

If we don’t, that contract is going to haunt all of our dreams for years. This moves makes way too much sense especially a 1 year deal with no major RFAs/UFAs on our team and paying a 3rd for it

 

[Archijerej]

As far as addressing a need, this seams like a good move. We could hardly have hoped to find a better backup.

But I would imagine we'd be able to weaponise our cap space this off-season and take advantage of St. Louis' situation to pry an asset from them. I was hoping for Dunn.

Dissapointing.

 

[Torspo21]

Next they trade Carey Price to the New York Rangers for #1 pick and then draft Lafreniere... voila!

 

[JoelWarlord]

Baffling move. Why on earth are we paying to fix another teams cap bind when there is an absolute glut of goalies available. Hate this even if I realize some idiot is going to quote this when Allen has some good games as if my problem is with the player and not us failing to leverage cap space for the trillionth time.

 

[le_sean]

Allen was on my wish list but had hoped to get a sweetener with him like we did with Mason. Guess his good stint in the playoffs raised the price. Maybe an asset we can flip at the TDL to recover something extra and gives us a legit back up til Primeau is ready. Ok with the deal

They got a sweetener with Mason because Steve Mason really sucked. If Price goes down, Allen is a starter you can be happy with.

 

[Dirby Kach]

This is a TERRIBLE trade.

So we spend 14 million in cap on GOALIES.
Blues are hurting to move salary OUT to retain their core.

And WE are giving up the compensation?

This direction also tells me what Bergevin is thinking.. so we are in for a terrible off-season. He's gonna f*** up our prospect pool and pick pool to over-correct on a Covid invitational dream..

you hit the nail on the head.
Get Bergevin outta here.