Ottawa declines

Doubt Montreal takes that. Although Necas is good, it would be better just to keep the center man in Suzuki, then grab a winger, third line guy, and 2 2nds imo.

Montreal and Carolina are not good trade partners, MTL would ask for Jarvis if they were trading Suzuki and Carolina would decline.

If we were trading for Suzuki we wouldn’t be giving up that much it’d more be Montreal giving picks and low end prospects

LMFAO are you serious? Do you not watch hockey? Or do just plain not get that centermen , especially almost ppg centermen have way more value than wingers?

You're guilty of something a lot of people are. Necas is a natural center. He WANTS to play center. Carolina's C depth just doesn't let him. I'm not saying this is fair value, but the center argument here doesn't work because he's 100% going to go play center if he gets traded, or he won't sign

That’s just not an option, and it isn’t close if it were.

The pick shuld be going the other way on the Sens trade.

Canes weakness has been second line center for a while, why dont they put him at 2c?

Montreal wont trade their 1c and captain that is signed longterm.

trading Necas for the canes can make sense if the return is right, but suzuki is just not available.

Did you miss the Canadiens throw Drouin at center? The best way to move a guy to the middle is to put him in the bottom six and let him adjust slowly, just as Aho did. Carolina can't do that, they have Aho and 3 3C's. Why would you shoehorn a guy out of position to accommodate Necas when Necas is having success where he is? Especially because 2C wasn't an issue before this year. KK was great last year, and Trocheck was great before that.

So basicly the reason he is not playing center is because he cant play center yet...

Lol the idiocy continues

Like I said bud, Suzuki = Aho

Or you package Svech with Niskinin, even that isn't likely to be said yes to buy Habs management though.

He can play center, and he has before... but you scream into the void

So let me getting straight, you claim Necas can play and is a natural center but he isn't playing center cause you have excellent center depth, then you contradict yourself by saying that you have 1 1C and 3 3C's that Necas is better than but don't want to play him at 2C cause you want him to develop at 3C and you don't want to promote someone to 2C that doesn't deserve it, even though that is exactly what is happening right now with KK at 2C. Just move Staal off of 3C and play Necas there to "develop him properly" if he is a natural center as you claim then playing him on the wing is actually what is hurting his development as a center. The truth is (and I am sure you are well aware of it otherwise you wouldn't have said that he isn't playing center cause you have a 1C and 3 3C's) he isn't a center, there is nothing wrong with him not being a center, wingers are people too, just not as crucial to the teams success or as valuable and that's what you are trying to convince everyone of, that he is a center so he has more value than people think, that's just you dreaming out loud

so then why isn't he playing center? you're saying he wants to, that he can, and that the canes need a proper 2c, but then compared him to drouin and said they can't put him at center because he's not ready to be a 2c?

he's said why he can and can't play center and is trying to put them together to prove his point lmao

Rod. Don't ask me, I'd have played him at C last year when he broke out. He's played Center, played it well, but Rod has moments.

it's just weird that he supposedly can play center (which I knew him as a center until recently) but they don't use him there even when they need an actual 2c. Probably has to do with his 41.6% career faceoff percentage, that's brutal

He hasn't taken too many until last year, so it's a little swayed. Even Aho's faceoff percentage was SH*T until 3 years ago or something. I wouldn't read too much into that.

If he can't win faceoffs then he isn't a "natural center" cause that is where a center's job starts on every shift.

The value is more than fair but Montreal probably declines.

Bro why are you lying? He is not a center, and hasn’t been one for YEARS! You say “he’s 100% going to play center if he gets traded, or he won’t sign”, so you are saying that he is not going to play in the NHL anymore? Every fan, GM, coach etc knows he cannot play the center position. I’ve seen people say he is close to Suzuki in skill, so if he is, and he can play the center position, why not just keep him, and save the assets?… oh wait, because he can’t!

i mean, if he's good enough to play 2c and the canes ''have 3 3c'', the solutions is pretty obvious?

Like im not saying he cant do it, i know he played there a bit imln the past in the nhl and also juniors, but it all a bit fishy. They even traded for another guy to come and play 2c. Thats not a voice of confidence.

No, it's the voice of a head coach who cannot manage this roster properly. Trust me, Necas would be fine at 2C. Or alternatively, give Jarvis the 2C spot... the Kuznetsov trade was purely because Rod is too stubborn for his own good

He'll only sign for teams that want to play him down the middle. That's been a major issue in the past, and was something they talked about in his last contract discussion. He can play center, but Rod is too stubborn to admit he made a mistake forcing Necas to the wing. That's the only reason. If you do not watch Necas, because you have to hear other peoples opinions on him, you need to stop trying to tell me that he isn't a center when I haven't missed a Canes game in 15 years