Rumor: Habs to test waters on Andrew Shaw

[Habsfan18]

As per Elliotte Friedman on Tim and Sid a minute ago.

Good luck with that..Doubt there are any takers..

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[LaP]

Maybe Shaw reputation is big enough but i doubt it. They'll need to add something.

Lehkonen+Shaw for cap dump on a one year contract and you'll have some teams interested.

 

[sandviper]

Will we get two 2nds for Shaw?

 

[Doc McKenna]

Nope we will retain 1.4 million and whatever team thinks he is worth 2.5 will be sending us a garbage prospect or vet ala martinsen/king in return.

 

[groovejuice]

As per Elliotte Friedman on Tim and Sid a minute ago.

Good luck with that..Doubt there are any takers..

One 2nd rounder at best for a team that craves his style of game. **** Bergevin.

 

[vokiel]

I'll believe it when I see it, Bergevin's Shawzie is not going anywhere.

 

[BLONG7]

As per Elliotte Friedman on Tim and Sid a minute ago.

Good luck with that..Doubt there are any takers..

MB is such an idiot to sign Shawsy to such a crazy contract...he's ours unless we keep some $$$ on the deal...pls fire Bergevin asap

 

[Runner77]

Will we get two 2nds for Shaw?

Two seconds of interest. Tops.

 

[LaP]

Will we get two 2nds for Shaw?

Nope not even close. Don't think we'll get even one unless we retain. But with 5 years left retaining is not optimal unless we go in full rebuild mode.

 

[Clumsyhab]

Maybe with Chicago if we retain? They like their old players back.

 

[didimentionlarseller]

trading Shaw is hard....

 

[Runner77]

Maybe Shaw reputation is big enough but i doubt it. They'll need to add something.

Lehkonen+Shaw for cap dump on a one year contract and you'll have some teams interested.

Only Shaw's term, salary, sub-par play and concussions exceed his reputation.

 

[LaP]

Retaining should not be an option unless we tank and rebuild. Even if we retain his value remains low. He's one concussion away from being on the LTIR forever. Waiting for that concussion is probably the best option if we don't tank and rebuild.

 

[Peanut]

Maybe MB can sucker Yzerman into him he did sign Girardi and Callahan maybe....

 

[OldCraig71]

Bergevin should be fired, what the f*** is Molson waiting for?

 

[Kudo Shinichi]

Pretty sure a lot of team would be willing to take Shaw
Just not for two 2nd round picks

 

[badbrains]

Our GM's resume here is a comedy of errors. If it wasn't so amusing at this point it would be very discouraging.

But it's mostly just hilarious now.

 

[Doc McKenna]

Bergevin should be fired, what the **** is Molson waiting for?

Trade deadline, maybe next draft, or UFA...oh wait sounds like some of our bergie defenders

Such a bad trade that we called before the ink was dry.

 

[RealityBytes]

Will we get two 2nds for Shaw?

Do we care. Just getting rid of him and his contract and freeing up his salary cap portion would be a welcome result.

 

[OldCraig71]

Our GM's resume here is a comedy of errors. If it wasn't so amusing at this point it would be very discouraging.

But it's mostly just hilarious now.

I used to find it funny that it seemed that most people could not see just how bad of a gm that Bergevin is but now I feel a bit sad about it only being October and our habs are in such a disastrous state.

 

[Runner77]

Maybe with Chicago if we retain? They like their old players back.

The Chicago Way.

Chicago takes a third line player from their roster following a Cup Winning season and trades him to a sucker since they can't afford his contract demands.

They exact a nice return ("this guy is a winner, won 2 Stanley Cups in 5 years, character, blah blah")

Player as a new shiny toy nets whatever contract he wants with his new team.

Wait two years until the parasite/ trojan horse player has become undesirable to his existing team.

Contact the team that owns him, to offer relief by taking back the player. All new team has to do is eat salary and take in an undesirable contract.

Net result: Chicago earns two high draft picks in a deep draft, gets the player back at a lesser salary and dumps a bloated contract for agreeing to take the player back.

 

[Captain Mountain]

Do we care. Just getting rid of him and his contract and freeing up his salary cap portion would be a welcome result.

It kinda hurts to look at what was given up for him, especially since it was such a strange move to make in the first place.

the 2016 draft was deep. Two of DeBrincat, Clague, Dahlen, Girard, Kuokkanen, Dube, Raddysh, etc. would be pretty nice right about now.

 

[Adam Michaels]

trading Shaw is hard....

It's Shawrd! <------ Hmmm. Not sure I'm sold on it.

 

[Runner77]

It's Shawrd!

"Fourfeit" it, before it's too late!

 

[Doc McKenna]

It kinda hurts to look at what was given up for him, especially since it was such a strange move to make in the

Even before the draft we argued about the kind of prospect you could get. But we were told those washington near 60's were as likely to develop as the 39-45 ones we had traded. At one time that would be an entire round of picks difference.

Hmmm kept our chi picks and have eller, or now trying to dump shaw, his higher cap, getting nothing and likely losing one of the wash 2nds to just get rid of shaw.