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Not trading 5th overall and Xhekaj or Mailloux for a 26 year old 65 point guy.

The hawks didnt move up. Just like the Habs "win" for slafkovsky doesnt count. This doesnt count against the sharks or hawks It only counts if you move up.

I would trade the 5th overall and a defenseman not Hamed Hutson, Reinbacher or Guhle for Batherson.

Should have had Blue Chew.

If they did sign them both where would we be now? Little or no cap room. A team just outside the playoffs probably. Likely drafting 12-16th this year, a middling team. I would rather go through a little pain with some light at the end of the tunnel.

I know Kaliyev has been brought up here before. It doesn't sound like Rob Blake is trying to increase his trade value. Kings Kaliyev 'Didn't Help us Down The Stretch at All" According to Blake - Los Angeles Kings News, Analysis and More (thehockeynews.com)

It's ok, when it happens to me I just call it a senior's moment and move forward. I am confident your next trade proposal will be better. LOL Don't let it discourage you!

Bergevin decided not to give Danault and acceptable offer and his re-signing Armia left no cap space for Hughes to keep Lehkonen ... on the other hand, if the Habs had both of them, even if MB was still fired who knows if Gorton and Hughes even sign on to a team likely stuck outside the playoffs but in the teens without lottery luck ... no Slafkovsky, no Reinbacher, no 2025 5th overall

Which to a certain degree makes it all the more concerning.

Apologies all .... misread CapFriendly ... can't wait for the "cap year" switch-over.

No the Hawks have only moved up once so far. They can still win one of the upcoming lotteries (but not two of them). Winning the lottery is defined as improving your spot in the draft order.

Now hopefully the right teams win so the Winnipeg pick can move up a notch or two

The Habs can still move up 10 spots twice in future drafts but at least the Hawks are done moving up for the next 5 years.

Yes, it would have been great to move up but I am quite satisfied to pick 5th. Easier for teams to make plans now knowing where they are drafting.

I’m glad it’s over and we are picking fifth.

Well that was uneventful….

I would not be surprised

Stand pat at 5th. Let's see if Chicago gets two in a row...

Any luck we move up and can draft a LD!! 😁

I can't watch it, too nerve racking, will check in later. Hoping for the best but dropping 1 spot to 6th has the highest odds. We will see.

Come on balls!!!! work your magic!!

Anderson's 3 years left doesn't make for a wise risk on a contending team. If it were 1 year, maybe, but the length and risk makes his only option a team like Montreal. Without sweeting the deal, even other rebuilding teams would stay away from him. He will be on the roster to start the season. His only chance of a trade is if his performance gets a lot better. This is also a case where it rests solely on his shoulders. MSL gave him way more chances than he deserved to be in productive positions, and he just didn't. I will give him credit, it wasn't from lack of effort.

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.

I've been ranting about this trade since the day it happened. Danault and Lehkonen should both be Habs right now in my eyes. They are both such great defensive players.