RHD
prospect, not roster player. We're already exposing a quality blueliner; we don't need to do multiple. And Petry would be on our bottom pairing; doesn't make much sense to be spending that much on such a guy. And for
damn sure we're not taking on a defense NMC, not with Jones and Murray and Savard to protect.
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I love Boone Jenner, but with CBJ defensive prospects already looking nice, add the fact that Montreal needs to keep whatever defensive prospects they have, I wouldn't do this trade and I don't think CBJ does it either. Value is there, just don't think it's the right move for either team. Habs need to keep their d-man prospects IMO.
We do indeed have plenty of high quality blueline prospects, but nearly all of them are lefties, so getting a RHD still in juniors has some merit. That said, I didn't think Montreal had that much in the way of blueline prospects to spare, and your assessment seems to back that up. (And we can also very easily address that point of weakness of ours by, like, drafting.
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I would offer JVR for Jenner with CLB adding a small plus. Jenner would fit nicely with our kids and if CLB is up for a real SC run JVR at this point looks to really push them to the next level.
Wouldn't work. We are full to ****ing bursting with high quality LWs.
If we trade him, it'd be to dodge expansion draft worries and shore up our future - which is a bit of an unlikely prospect to begin with.
Now, if there's any major injuries between now and the deadline, that can change, naturally. But it's more likely we just call up the wingers we have.
