Matheson for Durzi and Peterson

Équipe: 2022-23 Canadiens de Montréal

Date de création initiale: 28 févr. 2023

Publié: 28 févr. 2023

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

Any trade i made im not married to and am open to finding fair middle ground.
Just trying to fix our Powerplay here

Re-uniting Farrel-Laffarriere at the NHL level after 2 years in Harvard as 2/3rds of their top line.With all the injuries to our top stars this gives them the rest of the year to show what they got.

I believe making these moves coupled with a high draft pick this year will make MTL a real threat.
While yes burning off 1 year of the NCAA prospects ELC is round Hughes already did it with Harris.
He used that time to help establish himself and set himself up for a solid rookie season and mid season contract extension.
While there is a downside the potential Upside is much higher and its worth any percieved risk.

We want to become like TBL this is how we overachieve and do that.
While these changes look big they arent likely to generate any wins with that Dcore until Ghule and Xhekaj are both healthy and same goes for offense with Dach and Caufield.
They do have the potential to help MTL get into more high scoring games increasing Veterans values


If we run into a log jam we got ELC's and Waiver Exemptions for a reason.
If we have someone overachieve and get lucky we'll do what TBL did with Drouin.
It also gives us the Security to Choose Michkov who head to head with Bedard who's only 6 months younger , he destroyed him offensively doubling up on him.
He's signed to the KHL until 2025-26 i think and with this kind Depth we could afford to wait to sign his ELC until then when he's a KHL Veteran at 21-22 years old


Tons of reasons to do it and Hutson overperforming allows us the chance.
Plus next year we'll look strong especially if we land PLD at the Draft using FLA pick like i think we can before we OS them as over 8.4m x1 things stop being worth matching him vs that reward.(i mean if we went for term they might but not a 1 year that leads him to Free Agency)

Caufield-Suzuki-Dach
Farrel-PLD-Lafferriere
Slafkovsky-Dvorak-Anderson
Hoffman-Evans-Gally
Armia

Ghule-Durzi
Harris-Barron
Xhekaj-Savard
Kovacevic (Trade Eddy after the season maybe at the draft )

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