Quoting: tryger
Oh look a bad PLd trade from a Habs fan. Haven’t seen one of these in three days.
I agree with you that there are way too many PLD trades flying around... for a player that doesn't even make consensus here
Adding Byfield to the trade is plain laughable.
Just for the sake of discussion, take Byfield out of this trade. That is:
Dvorak, Barron, MTL 2025 1st for PLD, LA 2025 3rd.
Then, frankly, as a habs fan, I am not 100% sure this would be good for us. Don't get me wrong, unless LA is in a bind with the cap, I don't think they'd do that. But PLD doesn't exactly shine in the playoffs, which is supposedly where the redemption was supposed to come. He might very well bounce back next year, by 8.5M for another 7 years with NMC is a very, very risky contract for a player who never really showed consistency, and asked to be traded twice already at 25...
I'm not saying I'd say no, but it's far from being the slam dunk that non-MTL fans seem to think it is.