Could the Montreal Canadiens Be Eyeing a Controllable Young Asset?
Dave Pagnotta of the Fourth Period joined TSN Radio on Monday and was asked what sort of player the Montreal Canadiens are literally on the lookout for as they explore the trade market.
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Host: “I don’t know who this player is, that that they’re on the lookout for, you already know, like, all right, we would like a player who is just not going to cost us a bit of the long run, and we would like a player under an inexpensive contract. And we don’t need a player who’s too young, but we don’t need a player who’s too old, like, Who is that this guy?”
Pagnotta: “Yeah, well, that’s the thing like this. It’s by way of coughing up young assets and, prospects and picks and things like that, they’re willing to do this. It’s just they’re not willing to do it for a 32-year-old or a 35-year-old who’s going to are available in here for the remainder of the season or for a pair years as a stop-gap for the youngsters. That’s not a part of the plan.
If it’s a man early mid-20s, that matches. Then I believe there’s more of an appetite, and it’s rather a lot more palatable to go after that sort of thing and hand over obligatory assets to get them. It’s form of like what they did once they went after Kirby Dach or Alex Newhook.
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Similar sort of pathway for them by way of giving up quality assets with a purpose to get a high quality piece back. So when you’re taking a look at someone who’s within the, you already know, let’s say 24 to 26 range, that will be ideal, and, and suits then, yeah, they’ll hand over the pieces.
But that’s form of where, you already know, that’s form of where they’re at. It’s, again, not a situation where they need to herald a man who’s on the second half of 30, or is even in his early 30s, and cough up anything significant since it doesn’t fit the model and doesn’t make sense to them so as to add after which potentially take away from a few of the younger guys which can be attempting to develop.”
