My take on winning the Cup

AB Habman · Guru

My take on winning the Cup

NEWFIEHABSFAN · Senior Member

acually i think that trade wouldn't be all that bad, it's not like your giving away the farm, trade two good players for two good players!

adam13 · Member

My question is why would Dallas make that trade?

And how does that address the potential of long term success for the Habs by trading for two past their prime players.

ScottishHAB · Veteran Member

Exactly,Adam.

We get a lot of talk on here that suggests we set up a package- always Kovalev and something(even though we are told Kovy is lazy,arrogant,probably bad for team harmony etc,etc...) and then think some other team is going to trade top players to us.Seems a bit odd to me!

Fatherhab · Senior Member

adam13 wrote:

My question is why would Dallas make that trade?

And how does that address the potential of long term success for the Habs by trading for two past their prime players.

Because there are those who believe that we are weak up the middle and Modano maybe be available to strengthen that area. Dollar for Dollar, Modano and Kovalev are equivalent under the cap, production wise,they are equivalent as well. Dallas have 7 centres under contract to fill their need in that area.

Mike Modano,Eric Lindros,Jeff Halpern,Stu Barnes,Patrik Stefan,Steve Ott and Mike Ribeiro.

Kovalev maybe someone that they could use on the wing.

plouf · Guru

Well if it is true that Modano and Dallas are on the outs, that's something to try to take advantage of...and Kovalev is the kind of guy who could make the Dallas fans forget Modano (for a little while), which would allow management to do something like that. Dallas fans would get all excited by Kovy's ability. Only later would they pay the price....

But - I still would rather just see Kovalev pick his game up. We're only 2 games in. Let's see what he does over the next dozen or so games. And remember, this is basically a totally new line. Things may need to be shifted around a bit.

Traveling Hab · Veteran Member

I think almost everyone here would rather Modano and Zubov than Kovalev and Souray. And I am one who thinks Kovalev is great for the team. Modano has a great attitude, great production, is defensively resposible, and would guide our youngsters in a way that Kovalev simply isnt able to. And Zubov is certainly a better defender than Souray is.

Trouble is, Dallas loses huge. They stripped Modano of captaincy to light a fire under him and to reward another players success, not to trade him. If they wanted to get rid of him, they wouldnt have done that, since teams will now offer low thinking there is a rift between the two. They also have no reason to trade Zubov.

Kovalev and Souray both have very low trade value right now, and yeah, I would like that trade, but it just won't happen unless we sweeten the pot with Kostsitsyn.

And I know you weren't suggesting we wait for Locke to develop, but I feel like correcting that anyway. This is in all likelyhood his last year to make it. He has the skill, but there are only so many times you can get cut from training camp before you are not part of a teams plans for the future. That's largely why I think he should be our first call up for injury replacement, since we need to see if he can fit before we cut him loose. Also, a few successful games in the NHL would make him a tradeable asset if we went that route.