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Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 16, 2018 at 6:43 a.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 13, 2018 at 4:30 p.m.
Thread: Tampa/MTL
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Propeller09</b></div><div>It allows they to bring in Karlsson.

I know Price had a bad year, but why is everyone so quick to forget Price is the best goalie in the world. Not even close.

<strong><em>41% </em></strong>

<a href="https://www.nhlpa.com/player-poll/2017-18" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://www.nhlpa.com/player-poll/2017-18</a>

Over 500 players took part in the poll.</div></div>

Price may have won that poll, but you can't believe that Price, aged 31, making 10.5M a season for 8 years, is worth more than Vasilevsky, aged 23, making 3.5M for two more years (and still and RFA after that). Keep in mind, Price seems to be injury prone, and had a bad year (especially by his standards), while Vasilevsky was a Vezina candidate. He is making 3x more money than him, do you honestly believe Price is 3x better than Vasilevsky?

With that being said, Price is a great goalie, and may be the hardest to score on, but there isn't a team in the NHL that would take Price over Vasilevsky right now.

As far as your trade proposal, I would say it's solid (though as I said TB wouldn't touch Price). It is definitely in MTL's favour, even after the cap dump of Callahan and Coburn (to an extent). If I was Bergevin and TB called me with this offer, I am bouncing off the walls, because this trade would not only save my job, but actually get the Canadien's on the right track again. Yzerman is way too smart a GM to do this trade, and I can't see him moving Point (he would make room to keep him when there is cap restrictions), and he certainly isn't moving Vasilevsky.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 13, 2018 at 4:10 p.m.