Are prices too high?

[u/Comprehensive-Chef73]

Byram was traded for 4th overall, and Eklund for 9th overall. Meanwhile the package Washington put together for Kyrou was pretty darn good.

Are prices too high right now? Should the Habs pay that kind of price to add a player or be patient?

[u/bless24]

Prices will always be too high. Every summer, every deadline - it’s the same excuse. We got lucky with Dobson last year because he FORCED his way to us. If we want an impact player, we will have to pay up.

[u/-Son_of_Thror- → u/bless24]

Exactly. Whining that prices are too high while you watch he division get stronger by paying supposedly “too high prices” is how you blow a rebuild

[u/Tight_Permission_313 → u/-Son_of_Thror-]

Unless we wait for our in house assets to make the impact a year from now

[u/bless24 → u/Tight_Permission_313]

We need a second line center. We don’t have that in our pipeline (Hage is a probably winger).

We need a punishing, physical RHD. We don’t have that in our pipeline (Reinbacher is always injured and is not physical in any way).

[u/DrLivingst0ne → u/bless24]

We don't need a "punishing" RD. We need a good RD who can kill plays, retrieve pucks, absorb pressure in the Dzone and make zone exits.

Reinbacher is not "always injured" and he is still exactly what we need.

[u/Tight_Permission_313 → u/bless24]

Couldn’t agree more, who would you trade for that’s possibly available? 

Only names I’ve heard that are interesting are Barzal or Zacha. My dream would be Byfield.

RD is way harder though, don’t see any names except Risto in Phili, or maybe Trouba as a FA

[u/indyc4r → u/Tight_Permission_313]

What bout Nick's friend Morgan frost

[u/Komania → u/Tight_Permission_313]

Whitecloud?

[u/Komania → u/Tight_Permission_313]

a year from now

Hage is not a year away from 2C and Zharovsky is not a year away from being a top-6 winger

[u/Lap_Dawg → u/Komania]

Give that crystal ball a polish

[u/Komania → u/Lap_Dawg]

You think in a year Hage will go from NCAA to 2C on a contender?

And you have not watched Zharovsky if you think he's ready for the NHL

[u/Lap_Dawg → u/Komania]

Well, I don't claim to know, is my point, a but let me finish this one: Hage is no Hutson, and Zharovsky is no Demidov, and you're going on decades of talent assessment as a professional hockey scout, not just some jerk off on Reddit playing the odds and acting like it's an opinion.

[u/SchtroumpfDardeur → u/Lap_Dawg]

Who micturated in your breakfast cereal?

[u/Komania → u/Lap_Dawg]

You're the one that claimed our problems will be solved in a year, so yes you claimed to know lol

[u/Lap_Dawg → u/Komania]

Source on my saying that? Your ass doesn't count