I'll never forget listening to a Pittsburgh broadcast back when Matheson was playing with the Pens and the colour commentator interrupted the play-call to say "Mike Matheson looking like a young Paul Coffey out there!"

Classic Pens play-callers

Prices must be crazy on the bigger names to get down to matheson

Habs decline, Matheson is pretty good

I really hope not.

add a 1st and spence

See comment immediately following yours.

Matheson has played at a 50+ point pace in Montreal, is a local and was specifically targeted by the new GM (who was his agent up until last year when he became the new GM.

Montreal is not even considering that proposal.

The rumor comes from a Montreal source.

oh well maybe if people wnat one of our player they're gonna a pay like this wild market ... after all yesterday a Kings fan Offer Gab Vilardi ++ for matheson

I don't like it but let's be lucid for a second habs fans, one veteran needs to go. It ain't gonna be Savard, it's maybe Edmundson but he's injured, so it could very well be Matheson. Montreal gains 2 millions in cap space, switches a natural LD for a natural RD and sheds two years off the contract, Matheson's good now but not sure we'll love him when Mailloux, Struble and others are knocking on the door two years down the line. I take that and don't overthink it.
If you told me we'd turn Petry into a younger defender with half his salary and half the length plus two picks I'd be pretty whelmed.

And Edmondson costs Durzi+. Montreal fans are worse than Toronto fans at valueing their own players.

It wasn't a Kings fan. And why do you think I created this post?

What source? The only one I heard was a Laraque presenting his opinion that Montreal should trade Matheson as rumour before being called out on it and having to back track.

Yes, as you say, that's the rumor.

Its not a rumour if the person who propagated the "rumour" admitted it wasn't actually a rumour.

All we've heard or seen out here is the rumor, not the retraction.

Problem being this is an offseason price.. definitely.. NOT.. TDL price. You pay uncomfortable prices when you are buying at the TDL.



Then, you consider Mtl has 14 picks this draft, these are scratch tickets in the end!
Matheson fills a need, as a local guy, that can actually play under the spotlight unlike a certain number 3 pick from TB.
They arent moving him for less than a 1st when Gavrikov is going for a 1st plus. Its asinine to think otherwise.
Too many Habs fans want to collect assets and are actually selling very low on their own players especially those that want to be validated for calling Petry and in turn Matheson a valuable asset last Summer instead of a cap dump (which you admitted more or less) It doesnt matter what ppl here think, ppl think Anderson is a cap dump, who cares, theyll been proven wrong but in the meantime focus on your team. Matheson is a legit piece, hes not getting dealt at a rock bottom price because fans here want to collect draft picks like scratch tickets.

it was go check back by scrolling you'll be surprised as I was.