LongtimeLeafsufferer
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Lot of really "hopes" that might not have reality. Yeah, don't trade for Shaw, but there is no guarantee Montreal would have drafted the same players that were taken in the spot, and how successful they would be in the Montreal development.
Markov and Radulov were FREE agents. They really weren't signing again with the Habs. Certainly Radulov used Montreal for negotiating leverage, and Markov wanted to go back to Russia.
I wonder how much more more money, you could have offered Staal, and as player before he resigned, maybe money wasn't everything. He did return to his hometown, well Minni is close to Thunder Bay.