Quoting: TheMooterus
Wouldn’t even pay a 2nd. Don’t want anything to do with Petry’s contract. Dallas would be much better off playing LD on the right side than absorbing that contract for the next 3+ years
There’s a lot of factors involved here, I’ll try to name them all:
1. Petry is 34, he will not get better with time
2. Petry is signed to a 6.25 million contract till he’s 37 or 38
3. He’s currently having a sh*t season this year and has chances to regress next year
4. Jim Nill is the least active GM there is, he’s not the one to move big pieces out, maybe fringe AHL’ers or something like that.
5. Montreal selling high on him while it has the odds to backfire on the team trading for him, this is the major factor here. If Montreal requires a big package and in the scenario that we give them that, Petry starts playing like he’s doing now, you just traded top prospects and pick for a cap dump. Jim Nill would kiss his job goodbye if that happened.
I think Petry will stay in Montreal because I don’t see other teams matching Montreal’s risky proposal.