well, that's an easy no. Not only is a rebuilding team sending you picks, but they're getting back a player that can't slot into the lineup because of a logjam at his position.

Explain to me this "logjam" at LD... because it just looks like a bunch of guys who are not as good as Girard... who is a 24-year-old top 4 D locked in at $5M for the next 4 years... This is why you're the team sending a bit of a surplus of draft capital. Meanwhile, the Habs have up to 14 NHL calibre forwards under contract...

Montreal is getting the better player, at a younger age, on a team-friendly contract, and $500K in cap space... but you're worried about a 2nd and a 3rd round pick lmao.

The Avs need a Top 6 winger, and they have a surplus on LD... They give up the better player to fill an area of need, and get 2 picks as a result.

Habs have a surplus of LD, and need Top 9 talent. We have a surplus of Hoffman and Armia if that is what you want. Girard would be 3rd pair anyway next year, and 7th D on the long run

They're not playing best player atm. That's obvious up until now. They're developing their young talent, nurturing them into talents bigger than Girard. Trust me, I love Sammy G. He'd be going home, and I loved what he did about the forest fires. Class act. However, this is a trade this Habs organization doesn't seem inclined to do. They still need to keep spots open for their developing players because they don't see themselves competing until at least 2024-25. Matheson, Guhle, Harris, Xhekaj, Hutson, Engstrom, Trudeau, Beaudin, Norlinder, Struble, Nurmi, Mittelstadt are all LHDs. Now, most of them won't be as good as Girard, but acquiring another LHD to that list that they wouldn't want to play high in the roster is not on their charts.

If it was on their charts, they would not have traded Joel Edmundson, a player highly valued in the organization and locker room who did not request any form of trade. They traded him to clear up their very real logjam.

It's funny how things have changed over 3 years. CH would have loved this trade then, and I have been telling other AVS fans how they have too many D, they should move Girard.
AVS will get more interest from other teams. Habs don't need D. Maybe trade Girard +1st for Nylander and work out the cap on that.
Do we have too many Fwds? Just Hoffman, Armia. They don't count.

This is brutal for COL. Andersons contract stinks and after Toews has another good season, he will price himself out of COL (which is why trading Girard is a bad idea). You could very well find yourself with a D core of only Makar, Byram and Manson the next year