[Emrith] Le directeur général Kent Hughes à propos de l’accord conclu avec Sean Monahan lors de sa démission l’été dernier : « la situation un peu ouverte avec Sean était arrivée ici, joue, voyons où nous en sommes quand nous arriverons au [trade] date limite et c’est toujours le cas. »
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Tripacka
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As it is the case for every player on their last year of contract…
On Caulfield’s « shooter » production after his contract:
« I wouldn’t use a word like disappointed or worried, but you always want your scorers to score, and when you compare the consistency of scoring to something like goaltending, it’s very difficult to maintain year over year, apart from an Ovechkin, you don’t see it very often.
What we don’t want to happen is for Cole to stop playing like Cole just because he’s got a high paying contract…What’s most important about Cole is his happy presence in the dressing room. Today, his sunny disposition hasn’t been affected by the pressure. »
This might just be his way of saying to other teams not to try to low-ball him because he must be traded.
For sure he doesn’t want to signal to 31 GMs that Monahan has no value to the Habs anymore.
But it’d be pure waste to snub assets/picks just to keep him for five extra weeks.
The thing with Monahan is that, yes, he is valuable to trade, but the team is also absolutely desperate for scoring right now, and Monahan is one of the rare forwards on the team that looks like a top-6. I wouldn’t mind keeping him until we find a decent replacement.