Richard Labbe
Gentlemen, I hope you are doing wonderfully and taking full advantage of all that Saint-Tropez has to offer during this Canadian spring break. Now, I’m going to start with a difficult question: should we trade Sean Monahan and if so, why not ask the Rangers for two first round picks, Alexis Lafrenière as well as a piece of Central Park, which we could graft into the park Fountain ?
Simon-Olivier Lorange
I almost choked on my virgin daiquiri… That’s the risk of chatting in an infinite pool.
Guillaume Lefrançois
My Saint-Tropez is rather located in Laval, Montmorency station. I’m still looking for the sand and the sea.
Simon-Olivier Lorange
Well, I found a corner in the shade. So yes, I think the CH should trade Monahan.
Guillaume Lefrançois
I think so too, as long as it’s what the player wants. But if he was willing to explore a medium-term agreement, I would listen, if I were Hughes, because I repeat: the Canadian’s succession at center is not flourishing.
Richard Labbe
It’s true that you’re repeating yourself.
Guillaume Lefrançois
🙁
Simon-Olivier Lorange
Yes that’s it. With no mid-term deal imminent, you might as well trade him. NHL insiders see him among the two or three most attractive players on the market. This hasn’t happened often at the Habs, with all respect to Brett Kulak and Nick Cousins.
Guillaume Lefrançois
You forgot Dale Weise. The Dutch Gretzky!
Richard Labbe
And Monahan can always do a Plekanec: go lose somewhere else and then come back and lose here.
Simon-Olivier Lorange
It’s funny that every year we bring up a scenario of departure with return. So that never happens. Plekanec returned to play… three matches. On this account, you might as well trade Monahan, hire him back for another season and trade him again.
Guillaume Lefrançois
I think that Plekanec cases can happen with a player who has a prior attachment to the city (and its wonderful journalists. And Richard’s purple jacket). But with players who haven’t spent their lives here, I believe it less.
Simon-Olivier Lorange
And you, my good Rico? In the Monahan case, should Kent Hughes sell or renovate?
Guillaume Lefrançois
Isn’t this the show of real estate agents with dubious practices? Because Richard does not have any questionable practices, I would like to make this clear.
Simon-Olivier Lorange
Otherwise with a comb in your hands.
Guillaume Lefrançois
Very good point.
Richard Labbé
Yes but no. In short, according to rumor, Monahan would then like a long-term agreement, but Canadiens can no longer give 5-6 years like that to attackers at the end of their career (see Gallagher, Brendan).
Guillaume Lefrançois
Yes, but Marc Bergevin had cried.
Simon-Olivier Lorange
…an agreement that came into effect when Gallagher was 29 years old. Monahan will be 30 when his next contract begins.
Guillaume Lefrançois
Monahan return scenario: 5 x 5, a few tears from Kent Hughes at the press briefing and we’re in the car.