Lol, so where does Lindstrom go? He be claimed off waivers. Wideman is not coming back to the NHL. Xhekaj/Lindstrom would rotate as 6/7D in this case

The "DeTrOiT dOeSn'T wAnT pEtRy" fanclub looking amazing today!

Edit: In his post trade presser Kent Hughes said he told Petry he'd work expeditiously and wouldn't drag it out trying to maximize every piece of value in the trade. Kent has done right by Petry and it explains the return we got.

Montreal uses a retention spot on this though. Don’t really understand wasting 2 years of retention for such a marginal return.

Wait, according to Habs fans I thought Petry was suppose to return a 3rd + a good young defenseman/prospect for only like 20% retention.

yeah fs, Pittsburgh and Detroit trades fit Montreal’s needs well

Florida is preparing to start the season without a single RHD in their lineup, given that Ekblad and Montour are bound for LTIR.

And Florida gave generously for Ben Chiarot not too long ago.



Either way, I'm sorry I didn't declare Montreal as the winner of this trade.

I offer you my deepest sympathies.

I think this is more than fair for both teams. MTL wanted to get out of Hoffman and Pitlick. They did that, took on a retention spot in its place and got a ton of assets for it.

This ended up being:

Hoffman
Pitlick

for

2.3M of retention
Desmith (Who I think is also going to be traded for an asset - Lets just say a 6th round pick)
Lindstrom
Legare
2nd round pick
4th round pick


If someone made an AGM prior to the EK trade that had the above, we all would have laughed and shot it down immediately. Just in terms of actual cap, Habs basically shifted a little cap this year that they would have had to pay this year (Hoffman+Pitlick) to next season. For all of the above assets.

I think he’s good enough for the 2nd pair, though, and at 35 it’s possible, but not that likely that he’ll fall off a cliff in year 2 imo

Uh, what? A 2nd in two years is just that, a 2nd in two years. That’s like arguing a 1st in four years is worth as much as a 4th today.


We got a 2nd already as part of the larger transaction and it doesn’t make sense for us to keep him, because we need the roster spot for younger players.

I'm going to laugh when of etry is meh and Lindstrom turns into a 3-4 defenseman

i dont really think montreal wins anything. im just saying the value you make in your head is irrelevant.

if i had gustav lindstrom going to the sens for a first in my head doesnt affect the fact he had no value.

I'd say Detroit wins this trade, but it's honestly pretty reasonable.

Well I hope you're right. But I wont hold my breath

Then let him get claimed on waivers, he was a tirefire in the NHL last year, he shouldn't be playing in the NHL.

It is what it is. We got a 2nd + 4th + dumped Hoffman+ 2 young players for losing that retention spot.

Boqvist is a replacement level defender that is injury prone, small and horrible defensively. This trade wasnt far off at all with another bottom pair D plus a pick and for anyone to go mad because the pick was a 4th instead of a 3rd is unhinged

You are delusional if you think Boqvist and Lindström are comparable value-wise

The cap space is meaningless for Mtl. They arent a contender. Not using your cap space is worse than simply getting less than desired value. Sitting on your hand is essentially what Philly did at the last TDL and got roasted for it. Briere cleaning house this Summer and has got nothing but praise despite little value on players like Hayes, DeAngelo. Both GMs arent letting their ego get in the way and doing whats necessary in the grand scheme of things.

Lol really?? Then obviously if that happens Hughes lost this trade. If he can't play NHL then ya bad trade

They needed to clear room on the roster forget the cap. This is another deal that is a loss now for a win later down the road.
This will help the tank and develop their blue line.
Now Mailloux/Barron have a shot to make the roster depending on their camps. You want to create a spirit of competition. Hoffman, Drouin, Pitlick, Edmundson, Gurianov, Petry gone. Team cap went down this year, got picks and they got even younger.

Awful! Lindstrom + 4th pick should had been the price for Petry with no 50% salary retention.

Jeff Petry at $6.25 million is really bad.
Jeff Petry at $4.7 million is decent.
Jeff Petry at $2.4 million is a steal.

Montreal should have been able to get more than this.

This isn't true. Every team wants cap space, even if you are not a contender. You can weaponize that cap space when the TDL comes around.

That is very vague. Every team has different uses of cap space. As said Montreal isnt a contender. They dont need to maximize fit if it isnt there.

It's a fair deal. Petry was never gonna get anything substantial. MTL did not have the leverage to ask for more because of how he was just dumped and he's 35 years old, coming off 2 bad seasons. At 2.3 it's fine for a 3rd pair caliber dman.

Montreal essentially just got paid picks to dump replace Hoffman and Pitlick with 2 years of 2 million dollard deadcap

The amount of people expecting him to net a 1st+ mind boggles me, but it shouldn't because it happened last summer too...