Evans truther
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Agree with the comment on top of mine, Allen's the real winner there.
Which team wins the trade, as of right now (09/02/2020) it's a win-win at every level.
Cap space: Blues needs it for Pete and Dunn whereas Montreal's flooding in it and even after this trade they still holds about 13.3M$ to sign 4 players, Domi and 3 bottom six forward.
Goalie situation: Clearly shows the faith STL has in Bennington even after those ''meh'' playoffs and Montreal's locks up their forever search of a backup goalie with a SOLID one.
Picks: Montreal still has 12 picks, *12*, and with tons of interesting players in their pipeline the 50 contract limit will come up at some point so shedding some picks' smart. Latest THW prospect pool ranking has STL standing at 28th and having only five picks this year would've not changed much so acquiring two extra picks' an intelligent move by DouggyA.
Now where I think the deal can become lopsided is if St-Louis happens to pull a Jets and are unable to keep Pietrangelo, gets into next season with question marks in net and over 4.5M$ of available cap space. Highly improbable yet could become reality.
Now the ever ending argument about Montreal tying up 15M$ to their goaltender tandem ... For two straight years Montreal has gone through the season with lots of free cap space and a below average backup, has it made us a better team or a winning team? So why doing the opposite's seen as a knock? Yes Carey has a contract but when fresh -and he showed it in the playoffs- he's the best in the world, end of the argument. Montreal ended up paying a discounted price on Allen for taking the extra cap space end of the story.