I would think COL takes that all day long.

No way MTL does that

Im not a fan of Evans to be honest, they already have LOC. Dont need multiple guys with term as 4th liners and that is what Evans really is

Yeah but he is a center making $1.7M, normally I’d be opposed to that but at that price and production on the 4th line I’d roll the dice.

this is a good trade for the avs. evans is a decent 3rd liner with a fair contract. it's a good way for the avs to add depth scoring without adding too much cap.

just be mindful...that production was based on heavy minutes. He was 3rd in 5v5 ice time out of montreal fwds...3rd.
Avg 22 mins a game, 1122 5v5 minutes. That is almost the same deployment as MacKinnon last year.

Hes above average defensively, not very good on the PK, and really isnt very good offensively p60. Hes not awful but at 1.7m aav...its a bit meh for me

Fair points.

hes not bad, would make any bottom 6 better, just think as a pick up, there could be better options.

last season evans averaged just over 15 and a half minutes a night.

Last year when He and Suzuki handled most of the Faceoffs cause there was no other options
You know this is true look up Poehlings Faceoffs and then look at his numbers after Martin St Louis took over.
MSL publicly stated when questioned why Pitlick > Poehling at 2nd C during injury timeline that Dvorak was out, Perrault out,Paquette sucked and was out but still mostly just sucked.


Evans wasnt given Mckinnon minutes he was tasked with giving Nick Suzuki some relief who finished 18th in NHL Faceoff Wins and 4th in the NHL in Faceoff Loss's

You're entire Premise is built off he's trying to be more then he is without seeing thats his value
He's a bottom 6 forward who when needed can play a lot more after all he took a ton of faceoffs for 61st in Wins and 59th in loss's
From a pure Volume point of view he finished top 64 in the league as MTL's as MTL's 2/64 contribution.
Its not because he was played as 2nd pair as much as you think , even during injuries we were so spread thin as Center we could risk it.

It was easier to play Dauphin's , Pitlick,ext there while at one point Suzuki,Evans and Poehling were our only faceoffs options at Center due to injury.
League leading IR issues and a Historic 52/82m cap on IR or LTIR at once means Context and Circumstances have to factor in at some point .
Dont believe me put their numbers in Context to the leagues then take a look at MTL's IR log from last year
Or if you want a simpler way here's a site with all the line ups going back to 2004 (among other things)
It'll be pretty easy to remind yourself who was out at what time and why

http://www.cs.unb.ca/~mwf/habs/