He isn't worth that, like not at all

Then you are not moving him. 🤷🏻‍♂️

You forgot to include Dallas

People on this site really need to learn that this league is still run by an old boys club. A club that likes size and speed which are Anderson's only real assets.

This will be this year's Chairot trade, Habs fans will be yelled at for saying he has value, he will get a good return and we will be proven right, again.

Sure he is, the problem with this website and commenters like this one is that they don't think like GM's. Power forwards of Anderson's ilk are highly sought after and GM's pay a premium to acquire them.

Rumor was at the deadline some team offered a first for him so maybe that is his value but us Devils fans don't really care. The reason we are so tried of the trade ideas to the Devils is the value is way off. Our GM looks for bargains so overpaying for a bottom 6 winger, which he would be on the Devils , isn't something our GM would do. Our GM has also said multiple times he doesn't like in season trades or trading away our 1st.

There in lies the rub, the Habs are not interested in trading him, it's fans on this site that are. The Habs have already gotten "good" offers for him and turned them down.

I was literally saying that the Devil's should not be making any significant trades let alone one for Josh.

he is 3rd line forward making 5mil for the next few years. forwards who have scored 20 goals once 5 years ago are not worth this. and Reaves just when to the wild for a 5th round pick and the Oilers got Klim Kostin (a much younger power forward with more potential) for a AHL Dman

Not with his contract. His production is 3rd line level. 30-35 points. He’s injury prone. Terrible contract. So no he isn’t.

If he was 2.5-3.5m…sure.

Josh Anderson ($2 million retained)

For

Josh Filmon
2023 2nd round pick

Would be a realistic offer that helps the Habs. But Devils could do better with their 1st, 3rd and that cap space.

There's a big big difference between trading for a bruising defenseman who was doing his job making 1.75 million after retention for three months and trading for a power forward who isn't scoring that makes 5.5mil for three months + 4 more years

Comping Reeves to Anderson is like comping Suzuki to McDavid LMAO and Kostin's ceiling is not as high as you might like to believe, 23 years old 4 years since his draft and has only managed to put up 12 points in 54 NHL games, even his AHL numbers are not that impressive. A better comp would be Tom Wilson or Patrick Maroon, both at least have similar numbers to Anderson over their careers. Marroon is 0.41 PPG, Wilson has 0.42 PPG and Anderson has 0.43 PPG. Anderson is the same age as Wilson as well, do you think the Caps move Wilson for less than a 1st?

Montreal will not retain for 5 years

So then I imagine you think Wilson is an overpaid 3rd liner as well right?! Same age, same career numbers, same injury history, similar cap hit and same playing style.

Would you do it for Tom Wilson?

Only options to bring down AAV are (a) retain for 5 years or (b) take back 5 years of dead weight on another contract. The Devils don’t have the latter, so it would have to be retention.

Kent Hughes will not retain anything. He's in no rush to trade anyone.

Maroon makes $1m
Wilson scored 52 pts last year, has one year left.

Not great comps

If we're assuming he's fully healthy then yeah probably, but Tom Wilson has scored 20 goals three of the last four seasons (and the one he didn't was the covid season, where he was still on pace for 20 goals). Anderson has not been nearly as consistent in recent years. Anderson was pretty good last year and Wilson still had 20 more points than him. He makes less, and for only one more year beyond this. He has solid defensive impacts when Anderson does not. They're similar players but one is performing better and isn't a commitment into a guy's thirties.

He has been shopping his players around, saying he wants another pick for 2023. He is very much in a rush.

chiarot had one year left and was a rental with the physical characteristics GMs dream of, even though he sucks and we saw that in florida and are seeing it again in detroit. anderson is getting paid far too much for far too long to have this kind of trade value. the tom wilson comparison you made is laughable, wilson is a far better player

Was using it more as a comparable in the media talk way, experts say he has value and is a trade able asset, people on this site say he isn't, then he gets a decent return.

Happened with Chairot, is currently happening to Anderson

It doesn't mean he's liquidating his assets. We all know which players will eventually get traded but we don't know the timeframe and he's in no rush to create cap space.

I never made a Tom Wilson comparison...... And it's hard to compare to a current player who is on IR. Careers and play style are similar though.