a good deal for both teams

Yesterday, Brad Treliving, GM of the Flames, celebrated his birthday by giving himself a present: he signed Nazem Kadri. The free agent, whom many people linked to the Islanders, accepted $ 49 million over seven years to play in Alberta.

In the end, the GM may have lost two American 100-point scorers (Johnny Gaudreau and Matthew Tkachuk), but he managed to (in particular) get his hands on two excellent Canadian players (Jonathan Huberdeau and Nazem Kadri) in the long term and to be at least a year old from MacKenzie Weegar.

To add the newest piece to his puzzle yesterday, Treliving was forced to jettison salary via Sean Monahan and attach a first-round pick to it to convince the CH. That’s what the club had to do to win right now and I don’t think the discontent in Calgary is out of control.

And that’s good for them.

On the other side, in Montreal, Kent Hughes is not in the same position as his Alberta counterpart. The CEO of CH knows that his club will fight more for Connor Bedard than anything else and he acted accordingly.

So the two leaders were good dance partners on that one.

What you need to know is that the Canadian thinks in the long term and that the short term is not necessarily important. This is why the Canadian can agree to go get a Monahan at $6.375 million (even if he hasn’t been worth that amount for a few years) over a year since the carrot (the first choice obtained with the player) is more important than the batting (the centre’s salary) for the club.

Think regarding it: whether or not Monahan is able to start the seasonif he is a good player at the deadline for transactions, the management of the CH might retain 50% of his salary and send him elsewhere as a rental player.

Getting a first pick to take a one-year deal in a lost year and (potentially) picking up a draft pick next March if he has a good season is exactly the definition of making asset managementor to properly manage its payroll.

Afterwards, it will also be up to the GM to properly manage the conditions of the first choice obtained to have the best possible return.

But that’s a nice problem to have in the future, isn’t it?

Note that it is to settle all the details of the transaction that the official announcement was slow in coming from the Canadian. It’s really complex as a transaction, we’ll tell each other.

It is due to the injury of Carey Price, who should not play this year, that the leaders of the Canadian were able to add salary like that. This might possibly not have been done before since the goalkeeper’s situation is changing day by day.

The timing was therefore good to add a first choice in Montreal. And such an asset, it can be traded by 2025, don’t forget…

In terms of hockey as such, Monahan is not a bad player. He has often been injured in the past (he had surgery on both hips for two years), but now he is motivated by the idea of ​​getting a fresh start.

He is not 100% yet, but he will do everything to become the player he was.

Whoever is at the end of the contract will also have things to prove and the CH, which might exchange him, might also decide to extend his stay in town. He skates a few times a week with the goal of being able to start the season at the same time as everyone else.

And he will want to make a difference in Montreal.

He might perhaps, if he performs well and comes back healthy, take the pressure off a Nick Suzuki (as Dany Dubé believes) or on the center line in general, who knows?

I wouldn’t necessarily put my shirt on it, but it’s an (another) interesting bet from a club that can and should afford such bets. With Michael Matheson and Kirby Dach, the CH will look for upside.

He is also a player that the GM of the Canadian has been targeting for a while since discussions began during the summer before gaining importance this week.

Kent Hughes, who has nothing at the moment that is regarding to materialize, therefore persevered in the file.

Due to the timing of the news of Price (which releases money on the mass) and because the Canadian builds for the future, he chose not to pay a first choice to add a contract to the Kevin Fiala, but to receive a first choice to welcome a guy who had a negative value since the club works for the long term, not the short term.

This is how Kent Hughes and Jeff Gorton want to rebuild the club.

How long will this transition last? I do not know. It’s hard to say, but one thing is certain: they don’t do things halfway these days. The club is all-in on the future.

I have the feeling that the day when it will go up, it will be done quickly too. Sort of like the Rangers, like.

A lot of

– The CH is still discussing with its RFA, Cayden Primeau and Kirby Dach.

– Big show from colleague Max Truman at 11am on the radio!

– That’s my kind of humor.

– Shame.

– Big win for the Blue Jays yesterday.

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