Kotkaniemi15

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Forum: NHL TradesWed at 8:17 am
Thread: (MTL/STL) - Scandella for 2020 2nd round pick and 2021 conditional 4th round pick
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Blazingbat11</b></div><div>I'm happy with the return no doubt. Was giving Bergevin full marks for it when the deal went through. but the credit goes to Scandella for this return. Turns out Bergevin was actually trying to extend Scandella.... Only reason this deal happened was because Scandella wanted to wait until the off season. This GM has no clue what he's doing... just got lucky for failing to convince Scandella to resign and STL getting a bit desperate having missed on Dillon.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The <a href="https://twitter.com/CanadiensMTL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CanadiensMTL</a> tried to extend Marco Scandella but he wanted to wait at the end of the season. Marc Bergevin had no choice but to get the max in return.</p>&mdash; Renaud Lavoie (@renlavoietva) <a href="https://twitter.com/renlavoietva/status/1229874500386377729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
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You're one of those guys who will **** on Bergevin regardless of what he does.

If he resigns Kovalchuk, you will be pissed because he's 36 and might not be the same guy next year.

If he trades Kovalchuk, he just traded a top 6 forward who wants to play here.

Never happy. Go cheer for the Laughs
Forum: Armchair-GMTue at 5:23 pm
Thread: Before you judge the Scandella trade
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Wqrrior</b></div><div>Yeah, it's expected that you gotta pay for retention and reduced cap....

DeMelo : Better defenseman, 1/4 of Scandella's original price: Third round pick.

Dillon : Better defenseman, also retained. Cheaper contract : 2nd and 3rd.


It's pretty likely that STL meets the conditions and gives up the 4th. At that rate it would have been better to give the value equivalent to a pair of 2nds for Dillon.

Difficult to not judge what has been the day's most "out there" trade.</div></div>

I think the DeMelo trade is the outlier - not sure why Dorion didn't get more.

And you think that conditional 4th is likely met? Blues probably won't re-sign Scandella next year, and reaching the WCF is a tall task, nothing near "likely" IMO.
Forum: Armchair-GMFeb 16 at 11:50
Thread: Domi
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>MNBassman</b></div><div>I’ve heard there is a work ethic issue with him. If true, I want nothing to do with him. If untrue, I would still need Montreal to add to this trade...probably a 2020 2nd.</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>TanSor</b></div><div>Just looking at their roster, my initial guess was that guys like Danault, Suzuki, and Kotkaniemi were getting center priorities over him and it has caused him to struggle, but if it's worth ethic then yikes...</div></div>

Domi is struggling this year because he’s playing for is contract and he’s trying to do all by himself. He needs to calm down and it is not a big deal not getting 7M. Domi is better at center and doesn’t want to play wing ( yes he’s better at center, so Suzuki ) and since Danault is the #1 center and Suzuki have been stellar, he’s playing on the 3rd line ( 2nd &amp; 3rd line are playing actually the same amount of minutes ). Next year Kotkaniemi will get the 3C again so Domi will need to play LW or will be move this summer IMO