Drouin is NOT I repeat NOT being left exposed!

Except Girard is miles better…

Decline by the avs

Girard is not for sale, and Anderson is not at all the player the Avs would want, especially with his consistency issues. Donskoi out produced Anderson this year and doesnt had a 5.5m cap hit like him

Umm... sure, okay. The Blues accept.

Je disais la même chose avant mais je commence à penser que c'est ce qui va se passer dommage.

No it won't happen cause tradable assets don't get exposed unnecessarily in the ED they get moved or protected

I would have thought Drouin getting taken by SEA would be MTL's best case scenario.

please delete this before anyone with more than 1 braincell sees this

Why would COL do that?
Let’s do tale of the tapes
Anderson 27, 24pts, signed for 6 more years at 5.5
Girard 23, 32pts, signed for 6 more years at 5.0
Would you trade the younger starting to come into his prime cheaper, higher producing guy who plays the more valuable position for the older on the back 9 of his prime, inconsistent easier to replace guy? I mean come on this is all for fun, but you gotta at least pretend to be the other team and figure out why they would do a trade like that.

Not to mention Girard is a defenceman who doesn't get PP1 time whereas Anderson is a forward.

No it really is not the best case scenario is Drouin comes back next season and plays for the Habs along side KK and JA. Second best case scenario is he requests a trade and Habs get a mid to late second round pick for a top 6 forward. Absolute worst case scenario (and idiotic) is to leave Drouin unprotected in the ED and watch Seattle take him and send a thank you note for a free top 6 winger and probably one of the best available forwards in the ED.actually worst case is a GM who thinks he has to PAY to get rid of Drouin.

If girard goes it’s for young sub 3 contract forward plus a first.