Équipe: 2019-20 Canadiens de Montréal

Date de création initiale: 9 mars 2020

Publié: 9 mars 2020

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

These deals take place in day 2 of the draft after they all failed to make it work on day 1.
Kovalchuk wll be signed a week later to play 2nd line LW with Danault-Armia(for purpose of keeping lines straight i created a Kovalchuk character)

The idea of this 3 way is to create a Scenario where WPG ends up with Eichel a Center they could surely use going forward if any of their fans on this site are to be believed its their #1 priority .

MTL will end up with Laine in the mix and as such will pay most of the cost.
However Eichel's a top Center in the NHL and as amazing as Laine is a #1 C>#1 Winger 99.99% of the time unless his names Ovechkin its the rule .

BUF will walk away with a haul that makes the Duchene trade look small by comparison .



Eichel in 353 games has 136 goals and 336 points to date
Laine in 303 games has 137 goals and 245 points to date

Both Great players but its Clear the edge goes to Eichel
MTL currently is fine with its Centers and although Jack would have been great
MTL currently has enough Depth to feel comfortable in Building Danault up as we have during the rebuild while our youth Centers develop behind him like Domi did bring us to a point where his Value has worth after 116 points in 151 games at Center after playing wing his entire career since Junior .Now we have Suzuki and KK to develop behind him


i know its not a #1 Center but we dont run a system around 1 Center and never did even when we had it in Koivu ... we're a 3-4 line team based on depth (its how we won all our cups in the 1970's if you look at the NHL's top scorer's every year we wont the cup there was a lot of teams more teams with dominant players that outscored us but none outplayed us as a team )


Laine by himself isnt it so WPG fans got the choice between:
1st in 2020 and Stanley
2nd in 2021 and Vesalainen
or Roslovic and a 3rd in 2022 (conditional becomes a 1st in 2022 if Laine doesnt re-sign longterm)



After all is said and Done MTL has 8.84m cap before the cap increase to sign Free Agents or Offersheet someone Matt Murray and Josh Anderson to increase our depth. Both would either make it or break it here as Tatar , Domi , Danault , Armia ,Petry,Byron and many more can attest that with the pressure of MTL's fandom create's diamonds as all these players were sold on the low end of their value or given away like Byron .

Anderson's style is an upgrade on our 4th line that's now got some balance to it
perfect guys to create space and grow with Poehling into a 3rd line spot giving both
winger after lack luster years vs expectations , a chance to rebound beside a future regular in RP

Murray played his best hockey behind a great goalie in limited games
He's a Tandem Goalie but as seen thus far he's the Back up the Tandem not the Starter .
MTL could offer 4m and i doubt PIT matches on anything over 3 years term
he's still just 25 but they have Jarry and Desmith that i know of and likely another i dont


that would make MTL a playoff threat while rebuilding and a chance to take a cup as the underdogs to start but after 2-3 years as our young 19-22 year old players mature and gain
experience we'll become more and more dominant .

Anyone who doesnt perform the playoffs before their final year is trade bait the next year that way we can play next man up while continually re-stocking the prospect pool .

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