Quoting: Jleblanc
MTL paid a 1st for Dvorak, and CBJ is trying to get rid of Domi.
I had no idea they were trying to "get rid" of Domi... He has 9 pts in 10 games and is +5 in only 13:01 of ice-time per game
And I think Montreal realizes now that Dvorak maybe wasn't worth what they paid.
Columbus should try to re-sign Domi instead but if they can't, they shouldn't be giving futures (like a 2nd) for a lesser player
Quoting: palhal
IMO the overrating was caused by the Habs unlikely Cup run last season. Reality was they made the playoffs by four points in the Northern Division then caught fire in the playoffs. The "value" bar for the players is based on the being a Cup Finalist team. Reality is they were had middling talent to begin the season, and now even the value of some of the players have decreased.
Good point and since I haven't been looking at this ACGM section before, hard to compare. I have been on hockey forums for a long time but CF is really the place you can directly see how fans value their players.
That being said, I think the medias here play a huge part. They have/had dinosaurs like Ron Fournier praising some players like they're almost Gods. Carey Price for example, I think it was last winter, I heard him on the radio saying that if the Habs were to trade him, they could get a good young defenseman like Cale Makar... Speaking of Makar, I think it was JC Lajoie who said "we also have a pure blood like Makar in Alexander Romanov"
I mean...
Imagine how some of them must have felt when Price went unclaimed by Seattle. And I like Price but there's this thing called reality.