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Forum: Armchair-GM19 hours ago
Thread: David Ettedgui saying Montreal targeting Holtz for Struble and 5th
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>NHLfan10506</b></div><div>Tony Marinaro on his podcast:

“There’s been a lot of talk about one guy, Alexander Holtz. And I can tell you, one team wants him badly, and I mean BADLY, because I'm sure there's a couple of teams that would take him. The Montreal Canadiens want Alex Holtz BADLY. Believe me when I tell you that. They’re not trading Nick Suzuki and they’re probably not trading Cole Caufield. I don’t know how much they’d be willing to give up, but they’re offering some players right now. I’m talking about defenceman Kaiden Guhle, defenseman David Reinbacher, forward Juraj Slafkovsky. They want Alexander Holtz BADLY, and it doesn’t mean it will be a ‘one-vs-one’ deal. They will spice it up by throwing in other players or picks, but I can tell you right now, based on what I’m hearing, that the Canadiens want Holtz BADLY.”</div></div>

LMAO, this is hilarious, you are literally using the guy that said NJ wanted Anderson so badly that they were talking L. Hughes, Nemec or Holtz for him 2 years ago as your go to source on what the Habs are offering for Holtz?! ROFLMFAO!!!
Forum: Armchair-GM22 hours ago
Thread: The Yzerplan Is Expired
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>NHLfan10506</b></div><div>IDKtbh
Don’t worry about it. Hans fanbase do this with everyone.

Their GM is known for leaking trades that were never offered in order to drive up the price on a player that he is trying to sell. According to Habs fans, Kent turned down…Nemec+1st for Josh Anderson….at a different point, Jesper Bratt + 2nd overall pick for Anderson…Cutter Gauthier and 1st for Xhekaj….Askorov, two 1sts for Reinbacher…a top-10 pick for Matheson…there are tons of these (just google trades that Kent has declined). Kent feeds them to the local media, who print/report them as fact, and their fans buy it and get whipped up into a tizzy.

(Any other fanbase would look back at the previous trades and say, damn, Kent…why didn’t you take those offers?)</div></div>

Yes cause you <strong>know</strong> for a fact that it was Hughes that leaked those trades and not any of the dozens of other sources these insiders have around the league. GM's typically don't even speculate on trade rumours cause they know that if they did leak this information, they would lose all credibility with the other 31 GM's around the league. GM's won't trade with you if they know you are going to leak conversations you have with them.
Forum: Armchair-GM23 hours ago
Thread: The Yzerplan Is Expired
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Fergy72</b></div><div>Ken Holland traded away every 1st rounder and had plenty of bad contracts not to mention he decimated the entire farm system, our AHL team was like 28 year old average. you can't rebuild an organization in 5 drafts. this was the 1st season where the AHL team had plenty of yzerman's draft picks. he hasn't been perfect but this is why teams shouldn't always go for it every year. You probably weren't complaining about all those horrible deals Holland made the last 5 years of his tenure to keep the streak going. This is a true rebuild in every sense of the word and they take 8-10 years especially without a #1 overall pick</div></div>

If it takes 8-10 years to rebuild a team in today's NHL you are doing it very wrong. It should take a max of 5 years, first two years should be the sell off aquiring as many 1sts and 2nds as possible and finishing in the top 5-10 of the draft. Next 2 years should be the development years (finishing 10-16th in the draft) each year building on the next with your top prospects already securing roster spots. Final year is the filling out of the roster, signing FA's, trading for veteran leaders with playoff experience (preferably former cup winners) and proven playoff preformers. This 5th year should be the first taste of the playoffs either as a WC team or 3rd place divisional leader. The prospects are so close in skill these days and the development departments invest so much time and money that it no longer takes a prospect 4-5 years to be NHL ready, even lower round picks start taking roster spots in the first 3 years now.
Forum: Armchair-GM24 hours ago
Thread: The Yzerplan Is Expired
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>IDKtbh</b></div><div>Your post could do without the “you just don’t get it” part. But thanks.

They can value him at whatever they want or whatever it is you think would be required in a deal, bottom line is though, nobody is paying a 1st round pick for Arber Xhekaj. I’m probably his biggest fan outside of Montreal and the difference for me is I have no personal bias to the team or the player that clouds my judgement from reality. The kid is worth a 2nd round pick and MAYBE a low tier prospect.

You don’t want another LHD prospect? Cool, swap him for a forward. MTL will NOT get a 1st round pick for him; that simply won’t happen. And if some team comes along and offers a 2nd round pick + C+ or better prospect as a suggested I’d be for, they would certainly take that.</div></div>

The Habs were already reportedly offered a young former 1st round pick with 2nd line potential (speculation was Tyson Forester or Morgan Frost) and declined it, this offer doesn't come near that. Hughes and company know he has 2nd pairing potential and are not going to sell him for less than they feel he is worth to the Habs, other GM's evaluation of him matters very little since we don't want to trade Xhekaj, therefore it is going to take whatever price Hughes is asking for him to be traded and a 2nd clearly is not going to cut it.