Good point, Galchenyuk has been on the block for three years and still no one wants him. Even if Matthews doesn't resign with the Leafs, Leafs are getting four first rounders. You can't be honest if you think Max is really resigning with Montreal

I’m going to pretend that was a joke (or there is another guy named Matthews I haven’t heard of). Why would Pacioretty want to stay in Montreal, the team is a mess.

I have no clue so please don’t quote me on this, but maybe his family is with him there? He’s adjusted to the lifestyle there? Who knows. There’s lots of factors in deciding why a guy likes to play for a team, the team itself is only one of them

Is Bergevin dumb in some areas? of course, but hes also really good in other areas. Pretty much every GM in the league is like that. We need to hire a AGM who knows what hes doing to help Bergevin, Hell it took Poile 20+ Years to figure out what he was doing. Bergevin is in year 6 as a virgin GM and is still figuring things out, give the guy some time. Yea he mightve lost some trades but atleast he didnt trade Mcdonaugh for Gomez

Its like saying why would Lundqvist stay in NY or Tavares stay in NY or Ekman Larsson stay in Arizona. This is hockey not Basketball or Football where players sign just for Money.

After the trade deadline he showed heart (for once) and said "My kid went to school wearing a habs jersey and when I picked him up, I was proud of it, thats something I want to see and be proud of for the rest of my Career" the n he said something along the lines of the TD was hard on him and he never submitted a trade request.

Sorry bud, you write about Galchenyuk and then you call him the Captain. Heck of a way to try to win an argument. Don't even know the team you watch the most, and then you pretend know about other teams rosters.

Not sure what I was saying about the Captain thing, I was also talking about Pacioretty so maybe my mind was part of the last comment still?

Edit : The comment was referring to Pacioretty not resigning with the habs. Galchenyuk was just a reference I was using, so your comment is flawed.

Okay dude, some obvious trolling going on here, i'll bite. When did I fib?

I agree with half of this.

That’s good enough for me

So for all the crap Pleky was getting for being a "waste of a 2nd rd pick" during the season, which I agree was deserved. Has this playoff series redeemed him? 4pts in 6 games while being one of the better (if not the best) shut down guy for the TOR.

Doesn't matter. Everyone's opinion of a player is that of that specific moment in time.

Plekanec had a bad game? Garbage, Leafs should of never wasted a 2nd on him.
Plekanec has a good game? Smart move by Leafs, they needed a veteran center.

Reality? Good trade for everyone. Leafs, Habs and even Plekanec as he didn't have to go very far and move his family across the country.

But of course, we're not here to have even trades! We want steals and fleeces so we can laugh at everyone!!!!

Habs fans: HHAHAHAHA stupid leafs paid a 2nd for Plekanec! We fleeced them!
Leafs fans: HAHAHHAHA stupid Habs could of got more! We fleeced them!

I agree with everything but the bolded section. 100% no leaf fan has ever said that with regards to the Pleky deal lol

A late second rounder is the price for veteran like Price at the deadline. One reason the Leafs the made the deal is they only had four NHL centres,,,and no one in the AHL to fill in case of injury. So getting an NHL centre was a necessity. But really, Rychel could have claimed on waives in October...with no takers. He had fallen to be a 3rd liner LWer with the Marlies, if Habs can make him an NHLer good for them, but it says more about Habs NHL calibre of players. Valiev somewhat the same....3rd or 4th best Dman prospect on the Marlie. If he's an NHLer good for the Habs.
The Leafs allowed minor. leaguer Richard Panik to be traded to Hawks a few years ago when the Hawks wanted them on their NHL roster. Leafs obliged getting just a minor league forward in return. Maybe the Leafs did the same here, allowing Rychel and Valiev to show their value with the Habs for a few months, since both weren't going to be resigned by the Leafs.

you might want to fix that before habs fans have a collective aneurysm

If Leafs make it to the finals or something like that and Pleky has a good playoffs, there will be people complaining we should of got more for Pleky. I guarantee it. Regardless that statement had less to do with the actual player, more about the culture of the armchair Gm's.

Best comment ever

Someone said this? I must have blocked them but...WHAT THE HELL????? I AM DAMN HAPPY I INGORED THIS GUY!!! HOW IS PRICE ONLY A 2nd!!! HOW TELL ME HOW???

Thanks Bud. It was a mistake. I think Habs fans are having an aneurysm anyway.... Leafs in playoffs, Blue Jays doing well, Raptors in playoffs, Marlies in playoffs. Well Montreal has MLS team....oh so does Toronto
I wonder if Habs fans have any favourites going into game 7 tomorrow. The hated hockey Bruins or the hated sibling Leafs?

So this trade turned into...
MTL Receives: Kulak, Olofsson, Shinkaruk.
MTL Trades: Plekanec, Baun, Taormina.
Not too bad!

Plekenac for 2nd rounder for a going rate. As predicted the other 4 players minor leaguers in the trade meaningless. But Montreal did a great job extracting Kulak in a trade and even Shinkaruk there might be some hope.

There is definitely no hope for Shinkaruk, he was not qualified, and was probably one of the worst players on Laval last year. He was outplayed by multiple people on AHL contracts.

Olofsson is a good pickup. Let's see what he can do before we call him a minor leaguer