You guys selling Hischer?

Of course a Montreal fan thinks Caufield gets a better headline piece in a trade than Hughes….

Canucks pass easily

Ah yes, the Canadiens would TOTALLY be willing to trade Caufield…

No way (even tho Nemec is enticing)

yes im not even a canucks fan but this trade is embarrassing. probably the norris winner on a value contract for 3 more years.... at least another 1st + to start a conversation.

Hahaha. A generational talent and Norris contender for that? LOL. And his three years being underpaid are an asset, not a drawback hahaha ha hahaha

While the Canucks obviously aren’t moving Hughes, any hypothetical conversation starts with one of Hischier/Nemec with NJ adding from there

Nemec, great player, but MTL says no. We are set at D

And from NJDs perspective it would presumably have to start around Hamilton.

Which means it would likely be no trade to be made. Unless Quinn Hughes demands a trade to NJD (not realistic at all). And then obviously in that case NJD would probably get a bargain with no other option. And even in that case there’s no trade protection on Quinn’s contract so he can’t exactly control his destination (Jack interestingly has no trade protection either)

But for the sake of stupidity:

Hamilton (50% retained)+1st for Quinn

4 years of Hamilton at 4.5 mill vs 3 years of Quinn at 7.85, and NJD chucks on a top 10 1st.

Quinn is still very valuable even at an effective hit of 13.8 mill for us (7.85x3+4.5x4= 41.55 /3 =13.8). And then the hope is to get him retained.


Hamilton at 4.5 mill would be an absolute bargain, and then a 1st on top.

I put approximately 10 seconds of thought into that so it’s still probably ridiculous

MTL need offense, they ain’t trading Cole Caufield for Nemec (even tho he will be a top pairing dman)

So Quinn leaves a cup contender to live in a sh*thole like NJ? You should be more worried about Jack demanding a trade

Check out OP before rounding baseless claims and insults around

Realistically, I can't see Hughes asking for a trade, but beyond that in the absurdly unlikely scenario he did the Devils and Canucks don't make sense as trade partners. The only possible scenario I can see Hughes wanting out is to play with his brothers, in which case the Devils know he wants to be there and won't give up a fortune for him. Canucks would be best off shipping him elsewhere for a much better return than the Devils would be willing to give up.

Canucks would probably want the price to start with either Hischier or Nemec, Devils wouldn't give up either for a guy who at that point they'd think 95% certain they can have for free in a few years. The two teams just don't line up as trade partners, as either the Devils are way overpaying for a guy who wants to play for them and only them, or the Canucks are selling way low on a guy they can get a lot more for elsewhere.

100% agree.

I could see that return to the Canucks work …
Except that New Jersey would be getting Hronek instead of Hughes.

no

Montreal has a ton of good defenders coming up the pipeline and a lack of scoring forward so it obviously makes sense to trade away our best scoring winger for another defender.