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Forum: Armchair-GMOct. 17, 2023 at 4:05 p.m.
Thread: To all sens fans trading Kubalik to Montreal
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Xspyrit</b></div><div>lol I was wondering what we would find in here...

Problem you have is :

- Kubalik &gt;&gt;&gt; Armia, and he has 1 year at 2.5 AAV vs 2 years at 3.4 AAV for Armia. It's self explanatory

- Ottawa doesn't have cap space, they wouldn't be able to make that trade even if they wanted. Montreal can afford to add Kubalik.

- Armia is a pure cap dump, as evidenced by him being in the AHL when guys like Pearson and Pezzetta on the NHL roster. Kubalik is NOT a cap dump, he is easily worth his 2.5 AAV

- Montreal is rebuilding, getting a player for cheap then sell him for more at the deadline is exactly the type of moves rebuilding teams look to do


Unless you're connected to Habs management, how would you know that? Or maybe you were talking about Habs fans?

Kubalik 45 pts would have been 2nd on the Habs last season, and would have outpaced most forwards too.


That's not how the world works. Teams serve their own interest. Any team who has a NEED for a scoring middle-six winger or any team wanting to make a PROFIT at the deadline would look to acquire Kubalik.</div></div>

Rebuilding teams aren't paying any asset for rentals, they keep their assets for drafting or targetting young cost controlled players that fit their time frame. Rebuilding teams give ice time to their young players without caring about if they do some mistakes, they don't need rentals.

Montreal don't have any NEED for top 6 / top 9 players. They don't especially need anything because of Dach injury, maybe if Kubalik played center but he don't.

Ottawa NEED a lot more getting rid of Kubalik than MTL needs to acquire a 28yo rental (no matter how good). Based on that Ottawa urgency, they would have to pay something significant for habs to consider this trade. It's not because Montreal has cap space that they are likely to help Ottawa for free. A rental would cost Montreal developping time for their young players, at this point fans would prefer seing Joshua Roy in the NHL than any rental.
Forum: Armchair-GMOct. 17, 2023 at 1:44 p.m.
Thread: To all sens fans trading Kubalik to Montreal
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>rosenj</b></div><div>I've seen a lot of dumb Kubalik trades, but the idea that Kubalik, who is actually a good player and who is on the last year of a relatively inexpensevie contract, is a good comparison with Armia, who is an AHLer who's contract expires next season and who makes almost a million more than Kubalik.

Kubalik had more points last season than in Armia's last three seasons combined</div></div>

I don't compare Kubalik to Armia. I compare the trade frame. People are ready to give Kubalik for free because he's considered as a cap dump (because it's blocking Pinto's signing). Montreal is not taking a rival's cap dump for free, the same way as Ottawa would not touch our cap dump either.
Forum: Armchair-GMSep. 18, 2023 at 12:28 p.m.