It's a half-joke, as he's on a brand new contract.

Chel players, amirite?

I believe Glen Wesley was the last player traded for three 1sts in 1994 (Hartford gave Boston their 1995, 1996, 1997 1st rounders). All three turned out to be top-10 picks.

Scott Stevens signing in St Louis cost them FIVE 1st round picks in compensation for signing him as RFA (then had to give Stevens up a year later since they signed another RFA in Brendan Shanahan did did have the picks to send to NJD).

(It was Jim Rutherford who spent the three top-10 picks on Wesley)

Kuemper to Colorado in '21. Not only that, but the condition was met!

both Wayne Gretzky and Eric Lindros 'technically' garnered 5 1st round picks in trades. the Gretzky trade involved 3 1sts directly.

Gretzky (along with Krushelnyski and McSorley) netted 3 1sts (89~ #18 Jason Miller, 91~ #20 Martin Rucinsky and 93~ #16 Nick Stajduhar) plus former first round picks Jimmy Carson (86, #2) and Martin Gelinas (88, #7) and $15M from LA in 1988.

Gretzky also returned a 1st to LA when he was traded to STL in 1996 (97~ #15 Matt Zultek)

the Eric Lindros haul from Philadelphia brought Quebec 2 1sts (93~ #10 Jocelyn Thibault and 94~ #10 Nolan Baumgartner) plus 3 former 1st rounders in Peter Forsberg (91, #6), Kerry Huffman (86, #6) and Mike Ricci (90, #4), plus Ron Hextall and Steve Duchesne and $15M in cash in 1992.

I feel like this as well. But there’s still that small part of me that would smile if the wheels fall off the wagon for the jets and the 1st turns into a mid 1st rd pick or even a lottery pick lol

Don't think so, but the trade between the Flyers & Nordiques for Lindros came close. 2 first rounders plus Hextall, Duchesne, & Ricci (plus $15M).

**was corrected above by SaviorX & NHLFan10506...can't believe I forgot about the Gretzky trade to LA.**

whhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhat, wow thx for that history comment !

While we all laugh at the Jets, in the background, we see JBB is currently punching air rn

Im very glad the Jets actually adressed a need for once, really hope he stays healthy though.

Btw, in regards to recent history, do this mean Winnipeg can flip Monahan for two 1st round picks tomorrow?

Trade him to LA, we all know Blake likes to overpay for centers.

I think this is a fair trade as both team get what they are looking for.

If you compare the trade to similar ones, we could've gotten a bit more:
Lindholm: gave a 1st and a 4th and 3 players including Kuzmenko and Brzustewicz to Calgary
When healthy Monahan is better than Lindholm but this is when he is healthy

Before we can really confirm 100% who is the winner we need to see what Kent will do with the picks
We gave a 1st (13th overall) and 3rd for Dach who had a history of injuries and it didn't change once he joined the habs
We also gave a 1st and 2nd for Newhook who also isn't better than Monahan.

All this is behind us now and hopefully Kent can get rid of Anderson, Armia, Dvorak even if for peanuts and let the young players play and adapt to the NHL speed and see what we really have on hands

C: Suzuki, Dach, Kidney, Beck, Kapanen, Evans and Davidson - Dach can move to #1 RW and Suzuki #1 Center. The others can fight for #3 and #4 and we need a #2 Center.
LW: Caufield, Newhook, Roy, Heineman, Pinard, Tuch and Pezzetta - Caufield is #1 LW, the others can fight for #3 and #4 LW or RW and we need a #2 LW
RW: Slafkovsky, Ylonen, Mesar - Dach and Slaf can be #1 and #2 and Mesar and Ylonen can fight for #4
D: Guhle, Matheson, Hutson, Reinbacher, Xhekaj, Struble, Kovacevic, Barron, Mailloux and Harris - We should be good on D.

We have enough young players but many gaps and no real superstar. Hopefully one of them will be close.
With 4 first round picks in the next 2 years and too many young players for the bottom 6. If Kent really want to be a magician, then he needs to fill in the gaps in the next 2 years.

The Habs were supposed to lose last year and put themselves in a position to draft in the top 3 to fill the offense with a top prospect. We dropped to #5 and picked a D while the need is in the front or in net.
We should also be losing this year but we will end up with a pick between 5 and 10. In a D heavy draft, it will be hard to fill the offensive gaps.

Therefore to finish the rebuild faster, we need to turn to the trading market.
What would it cost to get one or two from : Zegras, Turcotte, Holloway....

We have a 5 year window, with the first couple years to fill in the gap and the next 3 to develop chemistry and hopefully get far enough in playoffs.

What do you think could be a good next move ?

To me WPG should have stayed put or went in on Lindholm if they wanted a upgrade

Probs could have outbid Van

And Zegras will fetch as much return, when you read some people around here...

Both conditions being on 3rds makes this funnier

Jets win the Cup

That's a bad deal for Winnipeg.

Tbh I think winnipeg wins it.

Now that’s just not true lol

centre market this deadline is garbage. if you didn't believe monahan was going for a first you were fooling yourself

conditional pick is very funny

It's wild. With Lindholm and Monahan gone, you have Henrique, and then bottom 6 centers. I hope your center core is set if you want to play in the playoffs.

Great patience by MTL here to maximize value. But, there's definitely some luck at. play, too. Had he not been injured last season, he probably would've been flipped at theTDL for a 2nd or 3rd rounder instead of the 1st they ended up with.

It will be the same after this TDL. Monahan got traded for a 1st...?.. we..uh..thats..cause..Gms are dumb..lol..haha

Right because this isn't supposed to be a simulation taking into account the real life factors in trade which include the market tendencies. I swear some here think they are trading the players in real life and are on their teams payroll. The delusion goes DEEP!




Another trade deadline. Another year where nothing is learned from previous deadlines. The market sets the price.
Rinse, repeat.
95% of the forum gets it wrong and badly. Not just wrong but unironically thinking they know better while being wrong in every way. My favourite part of delusion.

Sitting on your hands and doing nothing in a wide open year with a team that is locked in defensively BUT has had tickets selling issues for the first time in their short history...? Yeah.. NO! They need to make a big push. Chevy did what he always does. Trades picks not prospects. This was predicted by many Habs fans and Seravalli weeks ago despite som,e like you, kicking and screaming into the void.