The move that would really bring us to that top contender level would be if acquire Eric Staal. DD+Allen for salary cap reason+ 1st 2015, Beaulieu and Andrighetto or a package like that i would defintely pull the trigger if i was MB.
Jim Matheson from the Edmonton Journal saying the Habs/Oil discussed a Perron for Eller deal two weeks ago.
For one of the most overrated players in the league. I'll pass.
Jim Matheson from the Edmonton Journal saying the Habs/Oil discussed a Perron for Eller deal two weeks ago.
A report out of Montreal says the Canadiens might be willing to listen to trade talk for third-line centre Lars Eller, 25, who just signed a four-year deal ($3.5 million cap hit) because they’d still have Nail Yakupov’s junior buddy Alex Galchenyuk, Tomas Plekanec and David Desharnais in the middle. The Habs are painfully shy of scoring on the wing outside of Max Pacioretty and predictably French-Canadian David Perron’s name has come up. The Oilers forward makes $3.8 million this year and next. …
13 points in 15 games this season, and he normally starts the season slow. Seems like he'll have a bounce back season.I have no idea why you call Eric Staal overrated. Nobody talks about Staal yet the guy produces at a rate of 70-75pts per season for like the last 10 years.
While DD here gets called the best offensive center of the team but plays at a rate of 50 pts per season despite playing with a 35g+ winger.
The term overrated is so over/mis-used on this board.
Jim Matheson from the Edmonton Journal saying the Habs/Oil discussed a Perron for Eller deal two weeks ago.
If true hopefully it was the Oilers contacting the Habs about the possibility of such a trade and not MB initiating the discussion. I'd rather keep Eller and I hope MB feels the same way.
Would you do Eller vs Yakupov ? Both sides can add few minor throw-ins.@DarrenDreger
Word from eastern teams: MacTavish is very eager to land a center. Source says "no one is off limits." Normal procedure to get talks going.
Would you do Eller vs Yakupov ? Both sides can add few minor throw-ins.
No doubt, Yakupov is not performing great right now, but I think he'll be better than Eller in the future.
That would be atrocious. If they made that deal I would rage quit
Would you do Eller vs Yakupov ? Both sides can add few minor throw-ins.
No doubt, Yakupov is not performing great right now, but I think he'll be better than Eller in the future.
Jim Matheson from the Edmonton Journal saying the Habs/Oil discussed a Perron for Eller deal two weeks ago.
Let's say Eller + for Staal?
Trading Eller now, would be a big mistake IMO. Im not attached to Eller anymore than the next Habs player but his puck possession is off the charts, not to mention he forms quite the line with Sekac and Prust. That is not the move to make. Perron would not make this team any better then Eller does at the moment.
We need to trade DD. He cant hack it in the playoffs and it seems like his regular season play is just not up to par with the other centers we have.
Not sure I would support Bergevin if he made a Perron for Eller swap. All things considered, I think MB is a lot smarter than we can imagine. He has basically pin pointed every problem most fans see with the team and fixed it. I don't think he would make that trade.
Now if we talk about Yakupov, Id entertain the idea of an Eller+ swap. But that's an entirely different scenario
@DarrenDreger
Word from eastern teams: MacTavish is very eager to land a center. Source says "no one is off limits." Normal procedure to get talks going.
Certainly Bergevin wouldn't trade any player if he wasn't getting equal or better value in return and it made sense to the Habs now.
Trading one of our centres now creates a hole in our lineup that needs to be addressed seeing as Chucky isn't ready for that role yet and we're contenders now. . So if we did trade DD or Eller, we'd have to get a VERY good scoring winger to compensate as well as a 3rd line centre. Not sure Edmonton and montreal make good trading partners in this scenario as the oil won't trade RNH and they don't have anyone else other than their 4th line centre.
A winger for a D+ makes more sense from our perspective IMO.
Take off the rose colored glasses. We're not contenders yet. Too many holes to fill.
For those who want to trade Eller to the Oilers. Who would then play 3rd line center and Eller's minutes? I'd rather not play Galchenyuk as the 3rd line center and have him out of the top 6. So who replaces Eller?
Certainly Bergevin wouldn't trade any player if he wasn't getting equal or better value in return and it made sense to the Habs now.
Trading one of our centres now creates a hole in our lineup that needs to be addressed seeing as Chucky isn't ready for that role yet and we're contenders now. . So if we did trade DD or Eller, we'd have to get a VERY good scoring winger to compensate as well as a 3rd line centre. Not sure Edmonton and montreal make good trading partners in this scenario as the oil won't trade RNH and they don't have anyone else other than their 4th line centre.
A winger for a D+ makes more sense from our perspective IMO.