Confirmed with Link: Trade: Kerby Rychel for Hunter Shinkaruk (Flames)

[MXD]

Honestly the real problem with trades like that is not the GM but RDS and the media. This is an AHL trade involving two AHLers soon to be pro European skaters. The only mention of this trade should be in the AHL subsection of RDS.ca. Yet RDS runs it as the main news on their front page. Honestly it's borderline amateurish. This is not even close to be the big sports news of the day worldwide. It should not be mentioned on the front page at all. But Le Réseau des Sports de La Ville de Montréal just can't resist running anything related to the CH as a big news.

Fans who don't know hockey much think we just improved the team because those type of fans think management knows best and the only trades they do always improve the team 100% of the time.

This isn't exactly a huge day in the world of sports though. I mean... Pierre Gasly getting the 2nd RBR drive. Other than that?

 

[LaP]

This isn't exactly a huge day in the world of sports though. I mean... Pierre Gasly getting the 2nd RBR drive. Other than that?

MLB season is on. NRL season is on. Tennis season is on. US open about to start. NFL preseason is on. Golf season is on. All those leagues are bigger than the AHL by a fair margin. There's absolutely no way a news like that should be the number 1 news on your front page.

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

Decent trade useless but decent

 

[vokiel]

"I'm not going to make a trade just for the sake of making a trade"-MB

This trade feels like that right? Or maybe Rychel asked for it I don't know.

Arnia onboard = A lot less space on the RW

 

[V13]

This isn't exactly a huge day in the world of sports though. I mean... Pierre Gasly getting the 2nd RBR drive. Other than that?

Not only that but RDS know that by putting the word Trade along with the word Habs on their front page they are going to get and shitload of clicks , traffic and ad revenues

I doubt anything bring more traffic than Habs news on RDS.ca

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

what does Bergy have against deck chairs.

Stop kicking them around already

He's polishing the brass on the Titanic

 

[Whitesnake]

For what it is....I think it's a fine trade. I prefer to see a Shinkaruk type of player with his speed and his hockey sense. But...chances are he plateaued already. But let's see. At worst, he'd be a fine AHL player for Laval.

Next? McCarron for Frédéric Gauthier.

 

[DesmondDekker]

Next up: McCarron for Emile Poirier

 

[MXD]

MLB season is on. NRL season is on. Tennis season is on. US open about to start. NFL preseason is on. Golf season is on. All those leagues are bigger than the AHL by a fair margin. There's absolutely no way a news like that should be the number 1 news on your front page.

... on a Monday afternoon?

 

[26Mats]

Just read up on him a little bit. He scored 49 goals the year before his draft year in Junior. But after he was drafted he had to sit out most of his final year with hip surgery (2014). It was revealed he had been playing with the injury throughout his junior year.

I wonder if his hip injury has never really healed, and he's got a bum hip from trying to play through the injury. Would also be nice if he could further heal and start to excel, but that seems unlikely at this point.

 

[tazsub3]

Just read up on him a little bit. He scored 49 goals the year before his draft year in Junior. But after he was drafted he had to sit out most of his final year with hip surgery (2014). It was revealed he had been playing with the injury throughout his junior year.

I wonder if his hip injury has never really healed, and he's got a bum hip from trying to play through the injury. Would also be nice if he could further heal and start to excel, but that seems unlikely at this point.

well last small player we got from Calgary worked out.
And he is better suited for the new NHL, so i am willing to look positively at this swap

 

[26Mats]

well last small player we got from Calgary worked out.
And he is better suited for the new NHL, so i am willing to look positively at this swap

Because of Rychel's skating, he's a real long shot.

 

[26Mats]

Watching his youtube video,

his style of play looks like Matt Duchene with a skating stride similar to Alex Galchenyuk's.

Perhaps his hip injury history slowed him down that extra fraction of a second that's needed to break away at the NHL level. He seems like a dynamic offensive talent at the junior level.

 

[Seb]

Classic useless trade

 

[tazsub3]

Because of Rychel's skating, he's a real long shot.

thus cant be bad. as rychal had huge doubts too about his skating, here we have a lottery ticket

 

[dackelljuneaubulis02]

I never understand the spleen vented towards these types of trades. They don't come at the expense of the ones we actually want MB to make. You want your GM to try and find diamonds in the rough through trades like this. These moves in and of themselves are completely fine.

 

[tazsub3]

I never understand the spleen vented towards these types of trades. They don't come at the expense of the ones we actually want MB to make. You want your GM to try and find diamonds in the rough through trades like this. These moves in and of themselves are completely fine.

i agree, from all angles, and rated on its own merit, this is a great trade, lots of upside, and no downside. problem every trade, people rate it as if rating bergevin's tenure as a GM

 

[Tyson]

What will hppen with McCarron? Is he done as a hab?

 

[Bacchus1]

Hopefully a late bloomer breaks out for us. Our luck has to turn at one point. :-/

 

[Milhouse40]

What will hppen with McCarron? Is he done as a hab?

I think there's still some hope left for him to turn into a Brian Boyle type of player......but on the other hand, i really think the NHL has move in another direction since his draft year and he's the type of player that got out of the game.

Must change his game and be great defensively,PK and faceoff....or play dirty a la Wilson

 

[vokiel]

What will hppen with McCarron? Is he done as a hab?

yes he's most likely done.

 

[Sterling Archer]

Hockey is a game played not just on the ice but in the kind. Shinkaruk has ZERO confidence and is beaten. Maybe a change of scenery can help but ultimately he’d need a team to take a chance in him which isn’t likely. MAYBE Bouchard can ignite the flame again and IF there’injuries and he gets his shot he can do something. Ultimately, he’s better suited to the new NHL and does have the physical talent but mentally, he’s done.

 

[smirob]

Personally I prefer Rychel, but it’s such a nothing trade I can’t get too worried about it.

Hopefully Shinkaruk can turn it around in Laval

 

[tazsub3]

Hockey is a game played not just on the ice but in the kind. Shinkaruk has ZERO confidence and is beaten. Maybe a change of scenery can help but ultimately he’d need a team to take a chance in him which isn’t likely. MAYBE Bouchard can ignite the flame again and IF there’injuries and he gets his shot he can do something. Ultimately, he’s better suited to the new NHL and does have the physical talent but mentally, he’s done.

heard he was a huge habs fan, so that might also help

 

[26Mats]

Hockey is a game played not just on the ice but in the kind. Shinkaruk has ZERO confidence and is beaten. Maybe a change of scenery can help but ultimately he’d need a team to take a chance in him which isn’t likely. MAYBE Bouchard can ignite the flame again and IF there’injuries and he gets his shot he can do something. Ultimately, he’s better suited to the new NHL and does have the physical talent but mentally, he’s done.

There will be injuries, plus we'll probably be out of the playoffs by December. So, he'll get some NHL games in.

Watching him, I think his style of play has a higher upside in the new NHL than Rychel.

I like the trade. Could be a Nikita Nesterov type acquisition or a Paul Byron type. Time will tell. Hopefully he plays a lot in Laval as opposed to playing 4th line here, takes off and then gets a call up. He'll compete with De la Rose, Froese, and Deslauriers for the last 2 spots in the top 12, or with Froese for the 13th forward spot, assuming De la Rose and Froese are ahead of him.