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1. MTL have no interest in trading Price. it’s a larger risk to trade him and see him have success elsewhere than it it is for the Habs to just ride out his current struggles and hope he gets back to his old self.
2. Contending teams that would want Price would not be able to afford his Cap hit of $10.5mil.
3. Teams who could afford Price’s contract wouldn’t have the assets available to acquire him, or more simply than that, they would not be interested in paying the Habs demands.
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All these armchair GM trades are popping up because of Price’s struggles and Lindgren’s success. First of all, it’s too small a sample size to start committing to Lindgren and to even think of trading Price. And personally, if Lindgren continues his success and becomes a true #1, I would much rather keep him and Price as a 1A and 1B, keep Lindgren for his entire RFA years where you can pay him relatively cheap bridge deals, sign and trade him as he approaches UFA for maximum value. Similar to the Schneider for Horvat deal.