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HARDY05
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Forum: NHL TradesSep. 11, 2018 at 5:44 p.m.
Thread: (MTL / VGK) - Tatar, Suzuki, 2019 2nd for Pacioretty
As much as I think Pacioretty will fit nicely alongside Stastny, I am very concerned about how much can last season's monster success cost Vegas long-term. Okay, iít was probably worth it just to see the cinderella story and to break all those records and to establish themselves as not-loosers. But imagine that last season was a fluke and beginner's luck - 50/50 chance I think considering that so many guys had their career years and Fleury stood on his head trying to prove everybody wrong (+ was reasonably healthy). Very hard to repeat that. <strong>So, we can have a mediocre team who got rid of their 1st, two 2nd and a 3rd round picks along with their second best offensive prospect (not far behind Glass - I love Suzuki) just to prove their innagrual season was not a coincidence.</strong> I hope that everything works out in the end but that cinderella story might prove very costly.

By the way, <strong>Montreal has amassed quite respectful center depth in a few years.</strong> They need that big 1C. But behind that, there's a healthy competition for every spot. High-end 2C - Kotkaniemi, Suzuki. Low 2C/high 3C - Evans, Poehling, Olofsson. Very good 3C - Danault, McShane, Vejdemo. There's still some potential in McCarron and Shinkaruk, I think. Plus bunch of center prospects that are hard to predict but may turn into something good like Ikonen, Fonstad, Verbeek, Alain, Audette. And the best thing is that they can move Drouin to wing, which I still think is better fit for him.