You've overpaid acquiring LAF and Dubois.

Jeebus... Lane Hutson has ANOTHER 2 goals last night is the hockey east final... He's high risk high reward, but he's not a guy you trade. You cannot teach offensive instincts like he has. IMO in 10 years he will be the consensus best player picked in the 2022 draft.

Edit: To be clear I would rather trade Guhle than Hutson and there is no way I'm trading Guhle.

Way too much for Dubois and Laf. Not sure if I would move Hutson for Laf 1 for 1 right now. Also don’t know what Laffy has done to earn 7 million

Understood, but again, you say he may become the steal, he may also not be. His size isn’t an issue at the college level, but at some point you need a real first line and need to give to get back players.

Habs have too many small players and need bigger defense to clear the net. We have upcoming players, hence we need to make a choice.

You indicated him being the best of the 22 draft in 10 years… I’m moving him so the Habs don’t need to wait 10 years for a better team, and also think he may be injured being shoved around after two or three years in the NHL going up against players twice his size.

Unless they want to move him upfront, his injury risks are high at this point. Trade him while he’s hot.

I’m overpaying here, he may really get 4-5M$ per year but I’m just putting up numbers for a long term contract for him. If he plays with Dubois and Mantha we get our French connection lineup we’ve been missing for so many years. He may suddenly be worth it with those two supporting him.

You severely over paid for both Laf and Dubois, Laf gets a similar return to Dach (a mid to late 1st) Dubois likely similar to the Horvat deal (2024 1st top 10 protection + Mailloux + Armia or Dvorak). Also no way Caufield is only getting 7 years or Laf is getting more than a 3.5 mil bridge deal.

Size does not matter in the modern NHL. Case in point: Slafkovsky is injured. Xhekaj is injured.

Do you realize he scored the Golden goal last night in the Hockey East championship? He's the rookie of the year. He might actually win the Hobey Baker.

Jets would obviously take that.

Real risk trading Hutson.

Windjammer would say : WPG could get more at the TDL 😂

Honestly think this deadline haul for Dubois idea is a fallacy but whatever, people can think what they want.

Like what kind of deadline trade in recent years has seen A+/- or B+ prospect(s) traded along with a 1st round pick? I can't think of any off the top of my head, maybe if I start doing some research I could find one or two but how far back were they and one or two trades don't set a precedent.

If Dubois gets traded at next years deadline(which would be a terrible move by Chevy to wait that long but that's a different topic) it'll be for a pretty standard return similar to what Copp, Stastny, Hayes, Tarasenko, Horvat, O'Reilly, etc went for.

Also I don't think a summer trade will improve the return for the Jets by all that much, a bit but not by some massive amount but I personally think Dubois should be traded before the draft to maximize whatever the return will be and reduce the risk of PLD going to arbitration which will complicate things for the Jets, theres also the chance of an offersheet though that's unlikely.

Most here will argue and quibble over the difference in value between this suggested roster player or these two suggested prospects but ultimately most of them are pretty similar value.

Can't wait for Dubois to be traded just to see who was right all along... 😆

If Dubois gets traded to MTL at the draft it’s gonna be around FLO 2023 1st round pick + a prospect or a roster player IMO
I would personally wait, if he doesn’t sign here it sucks but not a big deal. MTL really need to finish at the bottom of the league for a couple years. Not only 2

If Hab fans must have Laffy, here is the price: both 2023 1st round picks, 2024 1st round pick, plus Xhekaj. You don't want to pay the price, pound sand or try your offer sheet nonsense.

We aren't missing a French connection. We've actively hurt ourselves because of it and pursuing it should never be an objective.
We traded Sergachev for Drouin. That hasn't worked out so well.
If we didn't reach for Leblanc and took Kreider, maybe we even still have Price.
The recycling of French coaches didn't do us any favors either.

You can still have quality hometown players without reaching or overpaying for them, but it has to be coincidental without consideration beyond their ability as a player.

Mantha is a bad contract but the point of moving it would be to get off of the money, retaining 2m they would be better off just buying him out. A 3rd and 25yo "prospect" Pezzetta isn't worth it to do so, especially to a team like MTL that has a ton of cap and can afford to take his entire contract

I'll add my voice to the chorus, for what it's worth: you've overpaid severely for DuBois and LaFreniere. But I understand the motivation.

Hutson & Dach are as close to untouchable as any player not named McDavid or Crosby gets.

Habs have Roy coming … that’s enough French plus they already have Savard & Piñard and Matheson who speaks French
Besides Habs are owned by an Anglo who hired an American president who hired an Anglo Montrealer as GM, don’t think they are so obsessed with a player’s mother tongue being French

Don't know if the Rangers could afford 4.3m offer sheet, which would only cost a 2nd rounder. Gee, you've put a lot of pressure on the young French Canadian lad by paying him so much and giving up so much bye acquiring him. Mantha? It's better to get a good player regardless of ethnicity......Gee, I'll take the French connection line of Lafleur, Lafleur and Shutt.

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