What a terrible idea.
It’s a fair deal for both sides. He’s a good player and he’s not old.
Agreed. Still need to ice a team and you do need some veterans. He seems to be a team guy with little to no controversy. As long as his speed holds up he'll be fine for 4 more years. Also, there is no NTC from what I saw. He can be moved at that cap hit if need be.
Sign him as a UFA in July if you want to keep him so badly during the downturn of his career.
Byron, if he produced another 20g / 35pt season, would have gotten us a decent return at the trade deadline. We're in a rebuild and should be accumulating assets.
Exactly. He can be traded easily.
Byron isn’t getting you a first or second round pick anyway. It’s a reasonable deal, even in a rebuild you can’t ice a team of 20 AHL players in a market like Montreal. I assume you have a modicum of business sense.
Sometimes you have to stick with proven commodities if the price is reasonable enough. While everyone salivates at prospects, there are more busts than hits. Byron has proven he can pot 20.
Sometimes you have to stick with proven commodities if the price is reasonable enough. While everyone salivates at prospects, there are more busts than hits. Byron has proven he can pot 20.
Can you state with 100% certainty, should the Habs be on the cusp of a playoff spot this season MB will not deal for say a Matt Duchene?This team won't be good in the next 3-4+ years.
Can you state with 100% certainty, should the Habs be on the cusp of a playoff spot this season MB will not deal for say a Matt Duchene?
There’s a reason MB refuses to use the word rebuild...because he either refuses or more likely doesn’t have authorization from ownership to do one, that would involve jettisoning “potential high value UFAs” like Byron or high valued market assets like a fully healed Weber.Oh for the love of all that’s holy. This contract is not bad, not a progress stopper, moveable and most of the youth will still be on ELC when it expires.
Byron and Pacioretty were our two top penalty killers. We traded one, you need to keep the other. Like already mentioned, he’s worth more to the Habs than the likely return in a trade would have been. None of you know whether or not MB kicked the tires on a trade, I’m betting he did and found the interest underwhelming for a 20 goal man.
Can you state with 100% certainty, should the Habs be on the cusp of a playoff spot this season MB will not deal for say a Matt Duchene?