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Habs Season Thread: Offseason 2025

Obviously the most memorable Desjardins game was the hattrick game but in my view his best game that playoff year was game 4 vs Quebec, he was totally dominant
 
GEEMAN said:
He was a hell of a player , fuck that trade was brutal
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That trade didn't bother me so much. Sure in retrospect we lost that trade big time, mostly because LeClair out of nowhere became a 50 goals scorer, which he was never going to be with us.

Looking back that year, things were dire. Muller and Bellows were in serious decline, which means that all the offense was on Damphousse, who was having his worst season due to lack of support. We simply couldn't score. So Savard was desperate for offense and make a big splash, getting a 3 times 100+ points scorer still in his prime. We could afford to sacrifice Desjardins, we still had plenty of depth on defense, and Leclair was a 45 points guy, that had shown flashes but no real improvements. Recchi still ended up leading the team in scoring for us that year despite missing the first 9 games before the trade.

Later that same year we also traded Muller+Schneider for Turgeon/Malakhov, definitely upgrading our offense in the process, and we got 2 90+ points season the very next year, although the loss of Desjardins and Schneider in a year was felt for a while after that.

Recchi was good for us but unfortunately also started our trend toward smaller skilled players. Recchi also got caught in the start of our dark years after the devastating Roy and Turgeon trades, an aging Damphouse and injured Koivu, he found himself without any support either.
 
Habsy said:
Sure, Monahan would be great right about now, but let's be real, the Habs brass did not intend on making the playoffs this season and we're looking at the bigger picture.

If we did still have Monahan though, Washington would be in real trouble.
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Alex Newhook will shock the (Habsy) world!
 
GrandWazoo said:
That trade didn't bother me so much. Sure in retrospect we lost that trade big time, mostly because LeClair out of nowhere became a 50 goals scorer, which he was never going to be with us.

Looking back that year, things were dire. Muller and Bellows were in serious decline, which means that all the offense was on Damphousse, who was having his worst season due to lack of support. We simply couldn't score. So Savard was desperate for offense and make a big splash, getting a 3 times 100+ points scorer still in his prime. We could afford to sacrifice Desjardins, we still had plenty of depth on defense, and Leclair was a 45 points guy, that had shown flashes but no real improvements. Recchi still ended up leading the team in scoring for us that year despite missing the first 9 games before the trade.

Later that same year we also traded Muller+Schneider for Turgeon/Malakhov, definitely upgrading our offense in the process, and we got 2 90+ points season the very next year, although the loss of Desjardins and Schneider in a year was felt for a while after that.

Recchi was good for us but unfortunately also started our trend toward smaller skilled players. Recchi also got caught in the start of our dark years after the devastating Roy and Turgeon trades, an aging Damphouse and injured Koivu, he found himself without any support either.
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The same people who bitch about losing LeClair for Recchi are the same ones who bitch about the Expos trading Randy Johnson for Mark Langston. Both deals only look bad with the benefit 20/20 hindsight. At the time, however, they were viewed quite differently.

As you say, LeClair was a 45 point plumber who, had he remained a Hab, never would have done much more than that. He became a star because he played alongside Lindros, who, despite everything, had a Hall of Fame career. At the time of the trade, Recchi was far and away the best player in the deal, and he produced as a Hab. I really have no complaints about his tenure with us. He did what it said on the tin, so to speak.

Likewise, at the time of the Expos trade, Johnson was years away from becoming "The Big Unit". He was, in fact, a throw-in, not the main piece of the trade. And Langston was the best left handed starter in the Majors at the time and the Expos were, for once, trying to win a pennant in the present instead of forever looking 5 years down the road.
 
I told you guys he would flub chance after chance. Sure he scored an easy one but man this guy does not have the hand-eye coordination required to play with a player like Demidov.

Heck Gallagher is better suited. Put him with 11-28.
 
Habsy said:
Sure, Monahan would be great right about now, but let's be real, the Habs brass did not intend on making the playoffs this season and we're looking at the bigger picture.

If we did still have Monahan though, Washington would be in real trouble.
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Yup and Hugo was never giving term to Mony
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
The same people who bitch about losing LeClair for Recchi are the same ones who bitch about the Expos trading Randy Johnson for Mark Langston. Both deals only look bad with the benefit 20/20 hindsight. At the time, however, they were viewed quite differently.

As you say, LeClair was a 45 point plumber who, had he remained a Hab, never would have done much more than that. He became a star because he played alongside Lindros, who, despite everything, had a Hall of Fame career. At the time of the trade, Recchi was far and away the best player in the deal, and he produced as a Hab. I really have no complaints about his tenure with us. He did what it said on the tin, so to speak.

Likewise, at the time of the Expos trade, Johnson was years away from becoming "The Big Unit". He was, in fact, a throw-in, not the main piece of the trade. And Langston was the best left handed starter in the Majors at the time and the Expos were, for once, trying to win a pennant in the present instead of forever looking 5 years down the road.
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And people tend to forget that Langston played great for us that year. Johnson only became a star 5 years after the trade.
 
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