Quoting: Talking_Senators
Philly aren't moving Sanheim, he was arguably their best Dman last season.
I wouldn't say MTL are giving up the two best players. Butcher is an upgrade on Mete. Even though Mete is still young, Butcher brings immediate help and he's still pretty young at 24 years old.
Zacha can play the wing, he doesn't have to be at center. He needs a change of scenery and I doubt Tatar puts up those numbers again.
At the end of the day, you may not like this trade and it's just for fun but the value is just about even. You could switch the 4th to a 3rd maybe but idk.
not really
close on the CGY to the point if it happened in real life i would not be surprised at all
the NJD trade though , Butcher is coming off a down year from 44 points to 30 being surpassed as team leader by Severson
Butcher who's going to be 25 when the season starts just isnt the guy for MTL because he's UFA in 3 years just in time for MTL to have a real team put together .
Mete's here long term ,we own his rights and its one of many reasons the 21 year old is preferred including Cap reasons longterm in which MTL is 2 seasons from entering cap hell where they'll really feel the weight of the Weber and Price deals .
the trade makes sense for this year but after that it puts MTL in a ****ty place to re-sign all their core players who need contracts outside Weber,Price and Drouin are the only players locked up.With our prospects depth growing constantly from the picks we acquired moving out veteran UFA's like Plekanec , Pacioretty ,along with Eller,Shaw and Galchenyuk moves leave MTL stronger.
we gpt no issues moving out a Tatar , Petry , heck even a Byron if the price is right to keep Danault , Gallagher , Domi,Kotkanemi,Poehling ,Mete,Juulsen who are all in need of contracts in the next 2 years along with Lehkonen ,Lindgren and Armia .
we cant afford to give Mete away