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If he didn't get hurt, he already has fared better than the last rental centre the Habs dealt to Toronto at a trade deadline.

This strategic mastermind, this managerial wizard, gave us all a look behind the gilded curtain of his overpowering visionary acumen at the presser yesterday: "The goal is to get younger, faster with character, and that’s what we’re going to try to do moving forward...We’re going young with speed and character." - Marc Bergevin These penetrating words, which so brilliantly cut through to the nub of the matter and demonstrate a far-seeing, prophetic insight into the future direction of the game well beyond that of his colleagues - most of whom are, of course, have yet to make the realization that MB has arrived at in year six of his rebuild, i.e., the pressing need for youth and speed - come from the same Napoleonic mind that brought you -Shea Weber -Karl Alzner -Jamie Benn -Dwight King -Steve Ott All players who made the team inestimably younger and faster. One can only be uplifted by this track record and the new revelation of how consistently our GM has built upon this clear and inspiring vision of the Montreal Canadiens. No doubt, given another decade, he will come to the realization that the league has legalized the forward pass! Meanwhile, here's a sneak peak at next year's edition of your Montreal Canadiens:

I Danault?

i don't think the best two centres for this team have been born yet - because like you know, top centres are hard to get.

Token tank shooter.

BINGO

Getting these loser points is really annoying. Happy for Lindgren though, helluva game for him.

Lindgren looks sharp so far. That's about it for the highlights of the opening 20 minutes for the Habs.

Hey, I'd hire you over Mr Magoo, at least

Just watchefd Pleky's first shift as a leaf...... sigh

Based on Age and Contract status, we are probably better with Reilly.

Offhand, I'd say Poile and Yzerman are the class of NHL GMs.

and he didn't even give up sergechev to make that deal. You can bet that if MB was in his shoes he would have moved his top young dman prospect

There are a lot of posts, so sorry if someone already mentioned this: Habs finish the day with 10 draft picks in the 2018 draft, all of them before the 6th round, and potentially 9 of them before the 5th round (if trade conditions are met with Edmonton and LA).

Who is Julien going to put on the ice now that Plekanec and Morrow are gone?

2 goals and 8 assists in 38 games this year. He may actually be our offensive derenseman.

http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=143097 6'2" 195lb left handed defenseman. 10 points (2g, 8A) in 38 games this season.

All that scouting of the Wild has paid off

I really don't think you'll miss him for very long. Regular season game #999 is Montreal vs. Toronto. If he re-signs in the summer with Montreal, game #1000 is his opening season game.

To Montreal Bobby Ryan Thomas Chabot Christian Wolanin Jonathan Dahlin Gabriel Gagne To Ottawa Jordie Benn David Schlemko Logan Shaw Byron Froese Adam Cracknell Get the Sens to add a pick too. Maybe swap a fourth for their 2nd.

Also we know that Eugene Melnyk is Cheap as Hell right now... and the Habs have a ton of cap space. What about getting creative with that cap space and Molson's money. The Sens want to include Bobby Ryan's contract in the karlsson trade. What if it wasn't a Karlsson trade... what if we'll take Bobby Ryan, but we are raiding your farm system? You don't even have to buy him out in year one, if you really wanted to role the dice, play him a year and see if he finds his old game... but you have the cash to buy him out immediately. If eating one year of Brian Bickell, was worth Teuvo Teravainen, What is eating 4 years of Bobby Ryan worth? Thomas Chabot and a Centre prospect (Brown or White)? More? hmmmmmm... Just thinking out loud here, lots of reasons its implausible.

There is nothing wrong with this trade but it still speaks to a GM who is obsessed with dumpster diving looking for that player who did not live up to his potential who has a one in a million chance to turn it around now and MB is going to gamble because it is cheap! Stop sifting through garbage and get us the players that we need. Other GMs do it every year and his obsession with bargain "depth" players with character is driving me crazy. Stop retooling our bottom end FFS and fix the top end.

Lehkonen has been atrocious this year