One of the main reasons they’re not playing him. He’s not in their plans, where you can obviously argue the other two are. If he’s traded, it will be on reputation more than his current play. Either way, they’re not getting much.
Everybody knows Allen. He's 34 years old, played more than 400 NHL games over last 13 seasons. No need to showcase him.
Pittsburgh needed to dump DeSmith on Montreal in the 3 way trade with San Jose to make things work. He was never part of Montreal's plan
Jake Allen, just for the record, played 24 minutes of the Blues cup run, faced four shots, and put up a .750. He was a glorified water boy.
Blues management said he was big part of coaching Billington that playoff. What most mean, not sure that was what other poster was getting at or not though.
I hope you’re proud to recite playoff stats. Well done. Now prior to that, one of the single biggest in season “comebacks”happened with that tandem. Bottom line is, I don’t think there’s too many available goalies that have a cup on their resume
That is true. But goalies are also voodoo.
… “that tandem” wildly underrates Binnington coming up and single-handedly saving their season. You’re trying to spin a narrative and nobody is buying it.
Exactly mate. Binnington was a newbie. Sheltered starts etc during the season. Allen has value and I stand by the fact that he fits well in a split workload system. Montreal is getting heavy on him I think with this three goalie rotation where he plays maybe once a week
You’re not buying it. Yhanks
I'm not sure it was true than, since Binnington was in net almost non-stop from the time he got called up that year. Allen got most of his start while Binnington was in the AHL.
Well that's the kicker there isn't it.
Probably asking for a 1st with no retention, when the value is probably a 3rd (or 2nd with retention) at best.
He gets credit for biningtons cup? They were last in the league with him starting that same year. Lol.
I think teams are asking for Montembault and that is the source of the delay in trading a goaltender.
That single season comeback only had to had happen because Jake Allen is doodoo garbage and sank a Stanley Cup winning team to last place.
I could see a team being more open to paying that if there was retention involved.
What if they are pursuing him as a backup? I haven't watched enough of Jake Allen this year to know, is he just not good enough to be backup either anymore?
I think expectation from the Habs POV is retention will be provided with the remaining retention slot. But nothing crazy. More like 750K ish.
If the Avs are trading for Monahan as the answer to their 2C woes, then they have thrown in the towel IMO.
