Speculation: Montreal is now clearly a seller

[slybel]

Habs need a real GM, now more than ever.

He's not going anywhere soon.. Sad but true.

 

[Doxinoctae]

He's not going anywhere soon.. Sad but true.

the only few one to go after this season are going to be Larry Carrière and Claude Julien (era change) from what I do understand both are too off-topic to seize the job as it as to be. Wonder if Muller can be introduced as head coach, he is perhaps the only Anglophone on earth to take the job cuz he is captain Kirk (and yes quebecers are ready to tune down the linguistic frontier for him [oh and if that happen hope that HF become a bilingual site for us frenchie that's our national sport after all ])

 

[Scintillating10]

Montreal needs to make a full courts press for the top pick. Where season is lost anyway.

 

[bbfan419]

Scandella (50% retained) for a 2nd
Kovalchuk for a 3rd
Cousins for a 4th
Thompson for a 5th
Kinkaid for a 7th

I doubt they get a 2nd for Scandella they only paid a 4th for him and he wants to stay in Montreal, also no one giving up much of anything for Kovy.

 

[bbfan419]

Montreal trades tatar at 50% retained.

Price is: 1st, 2nd ,3rd or 1st b prospect.

Too much

 

[Hockeyholic]

100% we should be sellers. We should be committed to a rebuild.

I feel bad for Carey and Shea. They should be moved ASAP to contending teams.

I feel bad for Claude. He's been doing his best with a mediocre roster but is likely to take the fall when we're officially eliminated from playoff contention.

I feel bad for the fans, too. We deserve better from this GM and organization.

Instead, MB thinks he can still salvage things when it simply isn't going to happen. Aside from our young and skilled prospects, no one should be untouchable. It's time to begin a new era.

He's a big reason why they are where they are.

 

[Tit]

With Bergevin as gm montreal has no direction at all. He has no clue what he is doing

The Weird part is with MB, he makes some of the worst trades I've ever seen, then turns around and makes some of the best ones. It's like he's just throwing darts at the board and some of them stick and some of them dont.

I feel for MTL fans. Kinda.

 

[Jumptheshark]

Hard to admit but Montreal is now a seller.

There will be trades but involving who?

Would love to play a guessing game and predict a trade.

The Leafs? Montreal could take cap for prospects or picks.

What you guys think?

The signing of Kovey means they are sellers....not

 

[Gaud]

We already have the goddam *****es on us with the words can we at least rebuild properly for once ...

haha problem in montreal is that if we rebuild, then the fans will still tear the town down if they dont make the playoffs the year after

 

[Omar]

Scandella (50% retained) for a 2nd
Kovalchuk for a 3rd
Cousins for a 4th
Thompson for a 5th
Kinkaid for a 7th

These are pointless moves with nothing of value coming back. You have to move guys like Tatar, Petry and Byron and get some 1sts back plus an NHL ready RD prospect.

 

[Omar]

Montreal can retain 50% on Scandella to get something better in return

They’ll re-sign Scandella for next year. They’ve been after him for a long time.

 

[Omar]

No way. They want Stanley Cup.

The Stanley Cup isn’t something you can buy at Walmart. You have to BUILD for it.

 

[Funk21]

I have been saying this for a while to my Habs buddy that Molson needs to embrace the scorched earth approach that the leafs embraced a few years ago. The great part is that the Habs already have some great prospects in the system and just need that one or two big draft years to get true superstars.

Trade
Tatar 1st + Blue Chip(retain 50% to get extra value)
Petry 1st + Blue Chip (retain 50% to get extra value)
Kolvalchuk 3rd
Scandella 2nd (50% retention)
Byron if anybody bites
Weise Late round pick
Cousins late round pick


Send KK, Poehling and Suzuki down to Laval.
Rest Price
Tank like you have never tanked and hope you get another top 3.

 

[Doxinoctae]

The Weird part is with MB, he makes some of the worst trades I've ever seen, then turns around and makes some of the best ones. It's like he's just throwing darts at the board and some of them stick and some of them dont.

I feel for MTL fans. Kinda.

he is not the only one to make trade i guess, my bet go to Mellanby throwing few punch behind the curtain !

 

[Tit]

I have been saying this for a while to my Habs buddy that Molson needs to embrace the scorched earth approach that the leafs embraced a few years ago. The great part is that the Habs already have some great prospects in the system and just need that one or two big draft years to get true superstars.

Trade
Tatar 1st + Blue Chip(retain 50% to get extra value)
Petry 1st + Blue Chip (retain 50% to get extra value)
Kolvalchuk 3rd
Scandella 2nd (50% retention)
Byron if anybody bites
Weise Late round pick
Cousins late round pick


Send KK, Poehling and Suzuki down to Laval.
Rest Price
Tank like you have never tanked and hope you get another top 3.

1st and a blue chip for Tatar and Petry what are you on exactly?
Who in their right mind would trade for Kolvalchuk he was available for hot lunch

Wow just wow.

 

[Doxinoctae]

haha problem in montreal is that if we rebuild, then the fans will still tear the town down if they dont make the playoffs the year after

well fans are alright with a busted season but our current overlord pseudo expert stating the «words» are looking for a jump for joy in a kleenex cuz they want playoff push ...

 

[LFCTML]

I feel bad for Carey and Shea. They should be moved ASAP to contending teams.

Maybe with 50% retention...

 

[PuckItUp27]

They need to fire their GM. Bergevin is f***ing clueless

 

[Treb]

1st and a blue chip for Tatar and Petry what are you on exactly?
Who in their right mind would trade for Kolvalchuk he was available for hot lunch

Wow just wow.

Because Kovalchuk is currently showing he can be effective on a team that doesn't have cement skates.

 

[WingsMJN2965]

That better come with a time machine and the rights to Datsyuk.

Bergervin would get too excited and bust him in the NHL at 18.

 

[Le Magnifique 66]

They need to fire their GM. Bergevin is ****ing clueless

Couldn't agree more, but I'm not complaining, they can keep him longer!!!

 

[Kraken Jokes]

The Weird part is with MB, he makes some of the worst trades I've ever seen, then turns around and makes some of the best ones. It's like he's just throwing darts at the board and some of them stick and some of them dont.

I feel for MTL fans. Kinda.

- signing Alzner
- failing to sign Radulov

Both of which happened in the same offseason. Even Radulov, no other Have fan was willing to put forth the AAV I was proposing.

So I'll give you those. But beyond that, what are some of these "worst trades" you're referring to? Please use context of where the team was at the time.

 

[bobholly39]

Pens junk for Gallagher.

Deal

There's this cole harbour kid on your team whose always injured and fast declining. We'll take him on as a cap dump alpng with a 3rd round pick for Gallagher

 

[Tit]

- signing Alzner
- failing to sign Radulov

Both of which happened in the same offseason. Even Radulov, no other Have fan was willing to put forth the AAV I was proposing.

So I'll give you those. But beyond that, what are some of these "worst trades" you're referring to? Please use context of where the team was at the time.

Shaw
Weber
Drouin

Are the big three I can remember.
Sure you could argue they weren't horrible, but I think they are all terrible trades.
Trading Subban seemed purely driven by racism. Maybe not perpetuated by MB, but probably ownership just didn't like him, not quite sure. But the optics were horrible. Drouin deal long term will continue to get worse and worse. Shaw trade is self explanatory.

Most of MB's deals aren't winners, either.

He only has a few that were flat out great (Petry most notably).

Also his signings and drafting have been arguably his worst work. (Price contract is laughable).

He is not a good GM and clearly has no direction or vision past one day at a time and desperately trying to win even though he should rebuild.

 

[BLONG7]

He's not going anywhere soon.. Sad but true.

If the fans get fed up, I can see Money Mol$on making a change this time....Money Mol$on has no ball$ and once fired a coach for being english over fan reaction so.............here's hoping.