Habs Halifax
Loyal Habs Fan
Ummm... right now Lekkonen looks like more of a potential bust than a top 6 player...
DLR is at best a 4th liner which is a disappointment.
Mete, Juulsen, Scherbak could all go either way. Mete is off to a good start but he is seriously undersized for a D.
Also you mentioned above what we could GET for Alzner? I think you need to be realistic. You want to move Alzner it's about what else we are willing to GIVE. We are not getting for him....
- I think Lehkonen is a good middle 6 asset. He had an injury season and far from bust.
- DLR is a bottom 6 player but he is much better than you are willing to admit. I like his size and compete level. We saw that part of his game after Pleky was traded and he got more ice time with better players. Vejdemo is a similar player IMO.
- Mete, Juulsen, Scherbak are all very solid prospects that any team would love to have. I do agree with your size concerns with Mete though.
- Alzner is a decent 3rd pairing D man. Problem is we are paying him as a top 4D. 4 years left from age 30-33 at $4.625M. It's not impossible to move and we don't have to trade a major asset on top of him to make the deal work. We were not the only team interested in signing him and he can be moved.