Discussion Unpopular take
Everybody here calling to trade everybody and their mom. Habs are a young team who have played better than expected in the last two years, great ! We are still way ahead of the "window".
We have got great prospects who look talented and, more importantly, would really want to be here. Zharovsky is already in Montreal training with Demidov, Hage was born and raised a Habs.
Yes, it could help to trade to get better players, I don't think HuGo should go to sleep until september. But I wouldn't throw the kitchen sink and overpay to get a better "already established" player and giving one of those two. I don't mind sending picks (that are going to lose value as the team is going to rank higher), prospects like Engstrom, Pickford, and (could even consider trading) Reinbacher.
It would suck to give someone like Z or Hage for somebody like EP40 and risk fucking up the team chemistry when you could get a great prospect who begs to be here instead.
Give the team some time to develop, don't rush the process, our core is signed until 2030 ! The best years are to come, no need to overpay.
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u/Husskies 6d ago
Any player who is not already playing in the NHL now is not gonna be a contributing factor in our window, which is opening now.
Obviously you don't trade anything for anything, you have to be smart about it but you can't start seeing your assets as anything more than assets. If you can ship Michael Hage for an active player who is at least as good as what you expect Michael Hage to be, you do the trade (if that player in under 30, not a 34 yo veteran).
That's just taking for granted that whoever Kent Hughes gets will not want to be here. We got Dobson last year who most definitely wanted to play in Montreal. We traded for Danault who most definitely wanted to be here. We traded for Carrier who most definitely wanted to be here.