The Montreal Canadiens are listening on their rentals, and their desire to make hockey trades
Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman and Kyle Bukauskas on the 32 Thoughts: The Podcast – Hold Outs, Opt Ins, and Potential Trades episode, on Montreal Canadiens not moving someone in the event that they don’t get what they actually need, and their interest in making a hockey trade.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Bukauskas: “It’s kind have come off the wagon a bit of bit here now for the Canadians. Lost eight of nine, they’re six points back. They lost each their home games here over Super Bowl weekend, the 2 matinee affairs.
Did you see Jake Evans quotes after the loss to Tampa Sunday. Almost speaking in past tense. ‘It’s been an honor’ when asked about just his time playing for Montreal, the one organization that he’s known. And, after all, the questions coming up, because he’s going to be UFA at the tip of this yr. He doesn’t have a brand new contract yet.
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Friedman: “Yeah, there’s, there’s a pair of men. So I had one player who, he told me, I could use the situation, but not his name. He told me, and this can be a player who doesn’t have a contract for next yr. He told me he thinks he’s going to get traded over the 4 Nations. He’s not playing in them. He’s like Evans. He’s no contract next yr, but not playing. He thinks he’s getting traded over this break.
I suppose some players have been told, I don’t know by their teams or their agents or who it’s, but they think there’s going to be motion. And he said that he walked out of his dressing room after their last game, and so they closed at home, and he said it was very bittersweet. He said him and a few guys were taking a look at one another like, is that this it. You understand, the players don’t return to practice until the 18th, right? So that they have per week off. And there actually is that feeling around there that some guys is not going to return to where they’re.
However it was, it was sort of jarring to read Evans quotes. You understand, one in every of the things is, a pair various things here. Primary, Montreal has shown prior to now that they won’t deal guys only for anything. Like last yr, I heard that they set a price for David Savard, and it never really got there. And so that they just said, ‘Look, we’re not we’re not doing that.’
And Brian Burke all the time had that sort of philosophy that unless you’re really doing someone a favor, you have got to set a price and stick with that price, because if not, you’ll get the fame that if people wait, they’ll out wait you, and also you’ll buckle under the pressure.
And , to this point from Kent Hughes, Kent Hughes body of labor, there’s a bit of little bit of that. There’s a bit of little bit of we set the value, and should you don’t meet the value, we’re not going to maneuver you. And he’s got an enormous price on Evans, probably like, I feel a second-round pick, I feel is what he’d wish to get.
And I feel the identical goes for Armia. And there’s just a few teams on the market. Army doesn’t get the identical amount of attention, but there’s just a few teams on the market taking a look at him.
And , the opposite thing too, I take into consideration Montreal is, I feel we’re all specializing in Montreal’s rentals, but I feel they’re very keen on making hockey trades. I feel Montreal would love to do a bit of bit more. Perhaps add a more impact player, but that obviously isn’t for a draft pick. That’s probably taking something priceless, either off their prospect pool, not Demidov or anything like that, or off their roster.
You understand, I feel Montreal, presently of yr, you deal with Evans, you deal with Armia, you deal with Savard, because they’re those kinds of men which can be sort of on the forefront.
I feel Montreal is looking larger too. It could not occur, but I feel they’re interested. I feel they’re keen on larger hockey trades that they think could make them higher in the event that they discover a match.
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So I feel also, by the way in which, in Evans case, you take a look at it, he was on an important tear. And since Latest 12 months’s Eve, I feel he’s played 19 games, including Latest 12 months’s Eve. I feel he’s got 4 points. I feel he’s got a goal in three assists in 19 games. And I’d bet that just the contract situation is taking its toll on him too. I, how could it not? I feel you’re only human if that sort of thing is affecting you.
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