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Well, the Monahan trade was indeed a great trade. It was just great for Montreal the way it worked out.

It's definitely not a system update, we haven't done one in a while. I use Firefox and don't see any difference in options/functionality. Have there been any system updates on Edge lately? Can you still see the normal toolbar where you'd change the size/colour/etc? Or is it when you click on it, nothing happens? If it's the latter, it's probably a browser setting. For bolding/italics/underline, there's always the keyboard shortcut (ctrl-b, ctrl-i, ctrl-u) that should work in a pinch.

I think he could play his way onto the fourth line. Whether that's best for his development is another question. A bit surprised he signed a two-year deal though. I guess that gives him a bit of security if Montreal elects not to sign him but I was expecting a one-year agreement.

That, and money. Sounds like Green is coming in really close to the bottom for head coaching salaries whereas Berube is likely better positioned to be closer to the top ten.

They had an 18.5% chance of winning. The odds of winning don't really change as it's still 14 ping pong balls and 1,000 combinations on the lookup table even after San Jose won the first one (they just redraw if needed). So the probability of them winning 3 times is 18.5% x 18.5% x 18.5% which equals 0.6331625%.

Petry's offensive numbers weren't great when he was in Edmonton but I wouldn't say he was terrible with them though. But yes, Barron's production at the same point as Petry career-wise would be higher.

Maybe it's just me but Barron becoming Petry seems like a pretty good outcome. That player, when young and cheap, would carry pretty good trade value as well.

Nope, I legitimately meant Carolina as I'm talking about Aho, not Kotkaniemi. If the Habs offered an eight-year deal, the compensation would have been much higher since the maximum divisor is five years so the picks owed would be based on total compensation for 8 years divided by 5. By putting the AAV where they did, there was no way they could go higher than 5 years. Carolina, meanwhile, had been pushing for a max-term agreement to that point. With Kotkaniemi, Montreal was only offering a bridge deal for understandable reasons.

According to a report from Sweden, Mattias Norlinder intends to stay in North America next season. That messes with my hope that he'd sign over there early, allowing the Habs to qualify him and hold his rights. Now, they'll have to re-sign him or release him. https://hockeysverige.se/2024/05/08/beskeden-om-calle-sjalin-mattias-norlinder-och-filip-engaras

The Habs have five players participating this year: F Cole Caufield (USA) D Kaiden Guhle (Canada) F Oliver Kapanen (Finland) F Vinzenz Rohrer (Austria) F Juraj Slafkovsky (Slovakia)

And e), it got him to UFA eligibility much earlier. The Hurricanes wanted to sign him to an eight-year deal. By taking the offer sheet, he got to his richer contract three years sooner while still in his prime.

I don't know who said he had no value (I know I didn't in the post you quoted). What is his standalone value? If it's a fourth-round pick, it's pretty inconsequential. On a playoff team, he's a 7/8 guy, that's not worth trading much of anything for. And for a rebuilding team, he's worth it as a depth piece but Winnipeg had no luck trading him which is how Montreal got him off waivers in the first place. Rebuilding teams will want a warm body for as cheap an acquisition cost as possible so while Kovacevic would indeed fit that bill, those teams won't offer much of anything for him. If they can't get him for dirt cheap, they'll just claim someone off waivers (like Anaheim claiming Gustav Lindstrom during the season). Suppose the Habs are in trade talks for an impact player and they're trying to find the missing piece to a package off. If Hughes offers up a fourth-round pick (or Kovacevic if that's his value) as that missing piece, it's probably not moving the needle. That's what I mean by close to throw-in value; he's not going to be the difference-maker to match up value in a bigger trade. He has some value, sure, but not enough to do anything of note which, as others have said, means it probably makes more sense to keep him at this point.

Scandella's a free agent this summer, not a year from now. That probably takes this one off the table.

If a player doesn't have good trade value on his own, he's not going to have more value being included in a trade package. He's close to throw-in value in a package deal, more of a third piece type of inclusion.

Would it? What would the price point need to be to dissuade Carolina from matching it? And remember, the first-round pick(s) the Habs would surrender would be unprotected - they can't substitute in the CGY/FLA one. Necas is a 2C, is that really what they should be parting with prime draft capital to get? If they were further along in the process (in other words, a steady playoff team) and needed a 2C-type player as that missing piece, then sure, there's a case to be made. But they're not there yet or particularly close so I'm not sure offer-sheeting anyone makes sense for Montreal right now.