The NJ trade left me breathless.

My god

Do you actually think Anderson is worth even half as much as Holtz? This is a ridiculous trade offer that the Devils don't consider for a minute.

There’s so much funny stuff here that I feel like it’s a disservice to even make my standard fare comments about how Monahan hasn’t played a game in over 2 months and you can’t just wave a wand to restore his value.

Bravo, what a thread.

Rangers would ask for Mysak or a 2nd.

Just because Hughes told reporters (your so called insiders) that they were offered a first for Anderson doesn't make it true at all. Hughes is just trying to bump up the trade value of Anderson. Of course insiders eat up this nonsense so they seem important. Hughes would have jumped at that offer for Anderson, and used that cap to get a better player.
You can be sure no such offer was made.

NJ isn’t the team dumb enough to offer that deal for Josh Anderson. Better players are available for that package

Habs fans 🤣🤣🤣

Sabres might do something like that

As a Habs fan, that's too much for Anderson

Sayings you should know better than to accept:

"No, that puddle of liquid came from the car that was parked in EXACTLY THE SAME SPOT on the lot before this one."

"You can get in on this deal before anyone else."

"No, Charlie Brown, I'll hold the ball and you run and kick it."

"Hughes was offered a first and refused."

im sure you sitting at home eating cheez-its knows more than the insiders.

"Insiders" are just paid guys who report what they want in order to clicks/readership or time on raid TV. That's how they make a living.
Yes, I'm sure insiders know more than me.
I feel sorry for you, that you believe everything you see in the media.

The first and Kidney are a good start, the remainder needs to be replaced by pieces that would have value to the Jets like Beck/Dach/Roy something along those lines. Expensive bottom sixers and waiver fodder don't have any value to anyone.

The remainder of the deals are even more lopsided in Montreal's favor. None are close to realistic.

So Kent was offered….

Anderson (50% retained)
2023 1st round pick (MTL)

For

2025 1st round pick (NJD)

…and declined because NJD wouldn’t add Johnsson.

(That’s what the insiders tell me)

Notice that you've gone from insiders being told something by Hughes to insiders "knowing" that the offer was made and rejected. Those are two wildly different and not necessarily connected things.

Let me ask you this: if one GM thought that Anderson was worth a first, then we can infer one of two things: (1) said evaluation was held by at least one other GM (i.e., a similar offer or offers were being or would be made), or (2) no other GM felt the same way (i.e., this was the best -- because it was the only -- offer Hughes was going to get). Now, what can we conclude are the likely ramifications of each possibility?

Here's what I think: if (1), then a smart guy like Hughes would realize that at some point the offers had leveled off, that the game of musical chairs was over, and that he would have to pick one before the band stopped playing. If (2), then when Hughes realized that he wasn't getting, or going to get, any other offers, he'd go back to that GM and re-solicit it. Or do you REALLY think that he's holding out for an offer of better than a first-round draft pick and expects those offers to start flooding in as the trade deadline approaches?

Anderson is available.
For 1st and top prospect.
Price hasn’t changed.
Been the same for months.

Also, my 1984 Oldsmobile is for sale.
For a $1 million.
Price hasn’t changed.
Been the same for years.

(I wonder why no one has bought the car though)

So the trade deadline is in 3 weeks, somehow Monahan is going to go from a dude with injury problems being sold with a 1st to a guy who nets another first when he hasn’t played in over 2 months. MTL fans got to give the Monahan is worth a 1st ghost up. Anything they get for him is a bonus because they already got a 1st, the guy when healthy has proven he is nothing more than a bottom 6 guy.

I don’t think NJ would pay that price but they are going to get absolutely WALKED in the playoffs. They need to seriously consider adding some muscle. You think Tom Fitzgerald didn’t ponder that when he saw Anderson drop the mitts after the hit on Suzuki last night? Anderson stock rising. 📈📈📈

Please start sending Monahan to Carolina. Some of their fans seem to have interest in other threads, the Avs shouldn't.

crazy how all you guys think you're smarter than insiders. I bet you were all in the comments saying there's no chance the habs get a first round pick for chariot or a first round pick + for lehkonen last year even though that's what the exact same insiders were hearing and reporting all season long. wow you guys aren't very smart.

Wow you mtl agms aren't very smart when it comes to Monahans value. Man's a walk pane of glass that got dumped because he was inconsistent with injuries and now he's been injured and you think you can get a 1st.

You keep sliding from what "insiders" were told to what "insiders" know. I haven't heard of any "insiders" saying that Anderson is worth a first-round pick and more; I just keep hearing that Hughes supposedly told "insiders" that he was offered a first for Anderson and turned it down. Until you're able to understand the gulf of difference between those two things, discussing anything with you is pointless.

well guess what, Kent Hughes was actually offered a first round pick for Anderson, and I'm not surprised about it. He's the type of player GM's drool over, without good reason.

Listen, if I was a GM, I would not want Anderson on my roster considering the term and size of his contract, but I'm by no means surprised an NHL GM would want him.

I haven't said a single word about monahan. and im the one who's not smart? lol

So you are saying that you know, first-hand, that someone offered Kent Hughes a first-round draft pick for Josh Anderson -- i.e., that you were standing there when the other GM made the offer, or that you were on the telephone call with Hughes when the other GM made the offer, or that you have read the e-mail from the other GM in which he made the offer.

Well, it's good to know that YOU're the "insider" who keeps supplying us with this information!