Why you had done this with a Montreal roster. Is the 4m additional payment for Ovi cap wise OK for Montreal especially when Price gets 4m raise next year. I just can't see the Habs doing this. There certainly isn't a Backstrom in Montreal to feed Ovi the puck.

Where have you seen these rumors? I haven't seen a single legitimate source or anything. If Washington trades him they're going to want a top 4 LD back.

They have a ton of room to fit him this year (already have $8M in space), next year is a question mark though.

Nothing legitimate at all. Just all the rumor sites so it's probably not true haha just bringing it up because people talk about it.

They could turn the picks into a 2LHD probably, but even then Djoos looks like the real deal.

With the price Montreal is paying for Weber and Price already, I'm not sure I see them loading in another huge cap hit for one player, even if it is Ovie.

Agreed, but Bergevin is in a crazy win now mode (when he shouldn't be), so I could see it. Maybe Caps would have to eat something. But again, it's just rumors so highly highly doubt it's actually real.

i wouldnt trade ovi for that....drouin is good but ovechkin on average gets 45 goals a year and there isnt a player in washington to fill that void..... drouin is a set up guy and caps already pass too much need more shooters esp goal scorers......

also for everyone saying ovechkin is past his prime blah blah blah last 3 years he has 20 more goals then the closest player and is 8th in points........thats with him having a off year

Ovy is a looser, no leadership and keep the puck too long and always shoot never pass, i prefer Drouin, he seem selfish also but he is a young guys and can grow up better than Ovy, also im sure Ovy cheat on his age, i think he is like 40 now lol

This is a return that I wouldn't mind for Ovechkin. Getting a high end player to (kind of) take his place, along with acquiring high picks and a high end prospect. However, I doubt that there is any validity to these rumors, and neither Ovechkin or Drouin will be traded. Also taking into account how badly Montreal needs a center, them trading their top C prospect doesn't make sense for them.

you clearly dont watch caps play at all......you probably think hes dirty and cant play defense either

I think that, given that Washington publicly said they expected to win it all the last two years or reevaluate, they wouldn't hang up the phone if a conversation started around either Drouin or Galchenyuk (recent top five overall picks who have shown signs of panning out pretty well in the NHL) and two more first round picks (which Poehling essentially is, and the Caps haven't picked a center that high since... Kuznetsov, so I could see them viewing him as a reasonable trade chip) (he's not a point a game player at any level, and there's some uncertainty with draft picks in college sometimes opting for free agency rather than signing (the Caps got burned once this year) but they've definitely been trying to add players from the USNTDP, and Poehling is on the US U18 team, so, yeah, I could see them being interested).

There's a huge risk in trading a guy who has never scored fewer than 30 goals for a guy who has broken twenty once or twice. But the Caps have two fantastically talented centers in Backstrom and Kuznetsov, and another thirty-goal scoring winger signed long-term in Oshie, so if the return is right, they can take on a potential star and try to help them develop.

I could see a top line of Burakovsky, Kuznetsov and Oshie scoring reliably, while Backstrom mentored an elite goal-scorer on a second line, against teams' second-best defensive units. Without Ovechkin's shot preoccupying opposing forwards, Washington's power play suffers, but they do need to get younger and keep building their scoring depth at even strength, especially after losing Williams and Johansson this summer.

But let's talk about why Jaromir Jagr is on the third line ahead of Tom Wilson, and how MacLellan convinces Ted Leonsis, the owner who was forced to pioneer retained salary to move Jagr's awful contract to New York, to give Jagr anything more than minimum wage, and a line of prospects.

But the idea that Jagr, Doan, and Iginla are all potentially still playing as forty-somethings speaks to the leaps and bounds in sports medicine that have made it possible to stay athletic for a long, long time. Ovechkin is 31, and there's a possiblility that he scores more goals over the rest of his career, than Galchenyuk and Drouin together. Here's a list of 25th overall picks (http://www.mynhldraft.com/nhl-draft-picks/25th-overall/250509/). A couple did well, but a few never made any impact at all. Patrick White, 25th in 2007, never playd a game in the NHL (https://www.nhl.com/player/patrick-white-8474158). Quinton Howden has ten goals and seven assists since being picked 25th in 2010. Last season, after Florida did not offer him a contract, he played five games for Winnipeg, and was held scoreless (https://www.nhl.com/player/quinton-howden-8475769). Mikhail Kuleshov, 25th overall pick in 1999, played three NHL games, registering four shots, and a -1. So I don't see this summer's 25th overall pick being the make or break issue in a trade for arguably the greatest goal scorer of all time (http://www.tsn.ca/is-ovechkin-the-best-goal-scorer-of-all-time-1.421745). But when teams move on from players, they like to give their fans hope, and 1st round picks are the best currency of hope in sports.

I do think that adding Ovechkin helps the Canadiens win right away. It might also help them win in four years, or in ten. I think they increase their chances of him okaying them as a trade destination if they sign his old friend Alex Semin, again, who is otherwise planning to retire after another decent year in the KHL, and maybe a couple other rising Russian stars to keep him company. I'm just not sure the Caps have given up on the idea of winning a Stanley Cup with Ovechkin still in Washington, yet. He is, after all, their best player every time they win the President's trophy.

So, what I'm saying is, you might want to add a first pick or two to that offer, and a prospect or two, if you really think your team is ready to win and the best way to do it is to pry the best goal scorer in history away from the best team in the league, the last two years running.

My question is, why would the Caps do this? They are in win-now mode, so why would they trade their best scorer, especially after they just loaded up for the next few years?

Sorry, but the Ovechkin's trade in my armchair with Sharks was much more reasonable than yours. I don't think it's gonna happen. But if would, it'd be much better than this one. And I'm saying this being fan of a Caps rival.