The most I’d have to think Dallas pays for him is a 2nd, anything higher we should get better options via FA or a trade.

With his current play that package is very unlikely and if that’s your expectations, I can assure you that you’ll be disappointed with what you get.

I have no expectation on what Petry will fetch, its why I asked what Dallas Fans thought of the Idea since it was in the article

Wouldn’t even pay a 2nd. Don’t want anything to do with Petry’s contract. Dallas would be much better off playing LD on the right side than absorbing that contract for the next 3+ years

The question isn’t what Dallas would give up for petry, it is what montreal would give for Dallas to take petry.

Dallas needs to get younger and has way too many players to sign in the offseason with not a whole lot of cap to work with adding 6m in cap is just not something they can afford especially for a guy that is ass defensively and isnt producing offensively i wouldnt pay a dam 6th for petry

I don’t see him fetching a major prospect at all

Every insiders whove talked with gms have said that they still value him almost as much as last year when he was a top dmen in this league. I prefer believing in actual hockey analysts than you

Petry isnt a cap dump and professionnal GMs are going to rub it in your face.

There’s a lot of factors involved here, I’ll try to name them all:

1. Petry is 34, he will not get better with time
2. Petry is signed to a 6.25 million contract till he’s 37 or 38
3. He’s currently having a sh*t season this year and has chances to regress next year
4. Jim Nill is the least active GM there is, he’s not the one to move big pieces out, maybe fringe AHL’ers or something like that.
5. Montreal selling high on him while it has the odds to backfire on the team trading for him, this is the major factor here. If Montreal requires a big package and in the scenario that we give them that, Petry starts playing like he’s doing now, you just traded top prospects and pick for a cap dump. Jim Nill would kiss his job goodbye if that happened.


I think Petry will stay in Montreal because I don’t see other teams matching Montreal’s risky proposal.

Petry will go to Dallas for a 2nd At best /// + Another pick sent by the team that will get Klingberg for the retention.

Dallas paying a 2nd for Petry is a 2nd too much imo. We shouldn't touch him at all. Our defense is already old enough.

With Suter under contract, there's no way trading for Petry makes any sense. Makes it difficult to re-sign all of our key FA's this summer and next. Would rather give Klingberg the deal he's looking for than add Petry.

Maybe if you say it a few more times it will magically become true that a declining 34 year old with four years of term will have value!

Hockey analysts don’t make a habit if saying, “that guy stinks.”

But sure, believe whatever you want to. If he had value, he’ll be moved at the deadline and you can laugh. It’s not going to happen though due to, well, logic.

Would you want the habs to give up assets for Jamie Benn?

You are wrong on so many levels:

-Im not the one saying it, GMs are saying it to Lebrun;

- he's not declining, hes having a bad season. He had 42 points in 55 games last season and is still skating faster than the average nhler;

- He has 3 years left, not 4.

It's like talking to a toddler...

This season, and three more. That is four years.
A bad season at age 34 doesn’t strike you as a decline? What on earth would?

It is you saying it. You’re here saying it. You’re calling someone else a toddler when you’re coming on here ignoring all evidence to the contrary whining, “my teams player is still good and everyone wants him!!!! Except for all us habs fan desperately hoping for a trade that is.”

That’s rich. We’ll wait and see, logic seems to be on my side here.

How do you know he’s not declining?? Jamie Benn had a bad season in 2019… then the bad seasons just kept coming. That’s how decline works. Can you see the future? Will Petry have a 50 point season for the Stars next year? If we’re giving up a top forward prospect and second round pick he better at least hit 40. Right now Hakanpaa is out producing him, so forgive me if I’m a little skeptical. I hope he does turn it around. Never like seeing stud players like him fall off. Btw if you really can see the future shoot me some winning power ball numbers when you get a free second

I know he's not declining because he had a 42 POINTS in 55 GAMES less than a year ago and his skating is still as good. People that actually look at him play know that he got BETTER from 30 to 33...

Fake specialists on this site just look at his stats like if it was a proof of something. Have you seen the freakin team?!?! Any player placed in this AHL roster would perform miserably, and they all do.