Leddy and Virtanen

Équipe: 2019-20 Canadiens de Montréal

Date de création initiale: 16 oct. 2019

Publié: 16 oct. 2019

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

1st trade : Habs are struggling with Mete on the first pair since 2 years now. He's not a bad player, but he's definitely not a top pairing dman. I love his skating and his first pass, but IMO he will progress a lot more facing less-quality players on a 3rd pair than playing against top lines with a lot of pressure. Leddy also has good skating and offensive raise so he could complete Weber well. I would trade Tatar since he's not part of our ''core''. The heart of the teams is Danault, Gallagher, Domi, Drouin, KK. Tatar is very good and shows a lot of chemistry with Gally and Phil, but he's not essential. Guys like Byron or Lehkonen can take his spot and the line will still be very good defensively. Drouin has too much potential for me to trade him.

2nd trade : Might not be fair value (I really not know how would cost Virtanen). I guess this trade would balance the lines, every lines would have a right-handed forward. Plus, Claude Julien seems to be in love with Weal, making him play top minutes, PP minutes....but why??!! Weal is not an offensive players (25 goals in career). I think coach places him on PP because he's right-handed and it brings another dimension that only Armia can bring too. Adding Virtanen would replace Weal on a more familiar role (4th line or healthy scratch), and it would place Virtanen with PP minutes so he will have a lot of chances to improve. Virtanen also add size to the lineup.

Basically I think those trades are too place Mete and Weal on the right chair. Mete isn't a top 2 dman and weal isn't a top 6 + pp forward.

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