As much as I’d want it, Habs won’t risk the 1OA for revenge

MTL will be over the cap after signing Rem Pitlick and Alexander Romanov so they can't offersheet or sign someone
They need to trade someone but we have so many cap dumps ( Gallagher Drouin Hoffman Armia Byron )

Not sure we do 41 OA for Bear, but I am interested

Bedard-Michkvov-Fantilli > Necas so why would habs do this.

May I interest you in reading the description of either the trade or the ACGM?

Bear at best gets a late round pick. Teams know the canes are unlikely to qualify him

Uhh, what? They're going to qualify Bear. The Athletic had it at a 5% chance he isn't qualified (Civian, Canes reporter) so that's wrong.

Thats not what some other reputable insiders are saying but sure why would a team give a early 2nd for a player who was routonely scratched this year.

Was never scratched! Another misconception. Bear missed time with an ankle problem, and suffered with long term COVID. Didn't play in the playoffs because of a growth in his foot he had removed after elimination. Walked into his exit interview on crutches!

Biggest mistake would be for habs to trade 2023 draft picks.
Plus why are we still talking about revenge? Carolina gave up a 1st and 3rd and paying KK close to 5M to play 8 minutes on a 4th line. They did MTL a favor

KK's the 2C next year buddy and he's just been good all year. Perhaps Montreal want revenge for taking a good kid from them. We'll see