[Basu] So the second set of Jeff Petry trades ultimately netted the Canadiens a second, third and fourth round pick in the 2025 draft, Gustav Lindstrom and Nathan Legare.
So the second set of Jeff Petry trades ultimately netted the Canadiens a second, third and fourth round pick in the 2025 draft, Gustav Lindstrom and Nathan Legare. https://t.co/psBm4Tip4m
— Arpon Basu (@ArponBasu) September 19, 2023
by Tripacka
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Pretty nuts that Hoffman, Pitlick and some cap space returned all this. Went Wughes!
Insane return for Hoffman lmao
He’s missing Pearson (which could return another middle/late pick later).
We got 2nd, 3rd, 4th, Pearson, Lindstrom and Légaré
Hoffman goated
Now that’s good asset management
Combine the two Petry trades and we gave up Petry, Poehling, Hoffman, Pitlick and gained Matheson, Lindstrom, Pearson, Legare, a 2d, a 3d and two 4ths. And using this year’s cap hit figures (and excluding Legare), net cap hit is 270k lower.
While Bergevin often had good trades, he also had some extremely mid ones too. He was a swing for the fences kind of GM.
Hughes, otoh, is the Mayor of Valuetown. He either wins a trade outright or he finds a way to gain some small bit of value either by shedding bad contracts or adding a late pick, etc.
All of the small gains add up over time to the point where we now have tons of cap space, tons of upcoming draft picks, tons of b or c level prospects where even just one parking or would be a massive W and very few remaining dud contacts.
Wouldnt mind sacrificing a pick or two from our 22 over the next two drafts to get rid of Armia