Drouin > Rodrigues
Chiarot > Pettersson
4th > 7th

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Everyone on this site has said Drouin is a cap dump. Pettersson is younger and is locked up longer than Chariot.

Exactly my thought process. Why would Montreal even for a second consider this trade?

He's not.

He was out of the game for personal reasons. He's healthy, on the rink, and can score from 40-50 points a year consistently.

Half the active players are cap dumps if you listen to everyone on this site.
I mean Crosby only had about 60 points to McDavid's 100, so he's way overpaid and it would be tough to get a team to take that contract.

This doesn't work financially for the Pens considering they have $121,000 in available cap space.

Keep drouin and show people he isn't a cap dump lol

The only reason Drouin was ever considered a "cap dump" was because he took time off for personal reasons. Meaning the uncertainty of not knowing if he'd ever play again means no team will ever trade for him. The minute he says "Ok Im back" is the minute he gets all his value back. Even if that value wasn't amazing to begin with, its still not nothing..

People throw out the term cap dump way too easily but with that said players "statuses" can change day to day. Drouin's changed with MB press conference. Others will not change no matter what happens.

Loui Eriksson is a cap dump
Andrew Ladd is a cap dump.

These players offer nothing of value that an 800K replacement player couldn't offer. Cap dump is a player that even if they were 100% healthy and ready to play, you wouldn't add them to the starting lineup. Drouin was never the case, his illness uncertainty was the only reason he had no value. Very different.

Drouin's case is similar to Eichel's. the only reason Eichel hasn't been traded already is the uncertainty of his surgery. If he comes back 100% healthy he is 100% Eichel again. Same for Drouin. Same can't be said for Ladd or Eriksson.