this gets you only monahan not kovacevic too

Do you realize Vancouver doesn’t want Monahan?

Bloom, Friedman, and the 6th are really quite irrelevant pieces to MTL. A 1st would get you Monahan, but not Kovacevic too.



Do you realize you're talking to a Vancouver fan?

Since when?

This is a viable trade if there are no better from other teams

Dhaliwal reported that we aren’t interested in Monahan. And if we were to trade a 1st it should be in a deal for a high end rental (like Guentzel) or a guy with term (like JEE or Buch)

Vancouver wants another guy who can play in the top six (and win faceoffs) and doesn't cost a ton in cash or in cost to acquire which Monahan fits that bill for. The only 2 semi cheap options are Ryan Johansen or Sean Monahan neither will have insane cost to acquire. but fitting them in Salary wise will be more difficult to fit Johansen will cost a bit to get another team to eat another 2m of his contract. I figure Allvin isn't going to pay the cost to acquire a Guentzel or a Lindholm so this adds to our team and gets another player who can in theory fit Tocchet's system without costing us Lekkerimaki, Willander, D-Petey, or Brzustuwicz. I don't think Allvin wants to deal Kuzmenko or Myers which would be something we would have to do to go in for the bigger names at the deadline. Monahan for 1st and 6th to retain close to half his contract is fair. I thought Bloom would be interesting and having Kovacevic being a 7th or 8th D-man would be good. but if he is going to cost too much might as well just have Friedman be the 8th (or McWard)