The defender is therefore heading home → https://t.co/q4ErnDNGxS
– DansLesCoulisses (@DLCoulisses) August 15, 2023
Jeff Petry: for such a return, would the CH have been better off keeping him?
Auteur: Manuel Sperandio-LemayEarlier this afternoon, the Habs announced that Jeff Petry had been traded to the Detroit Red Wings, with 37.5% of his salary remaining in the city. In return, the club acquired Gustav Lindström and a conditional fourth-round pick in 2025.
What we notice is that the CH has roughly acquired a young seventh defenseman (or, at the very least, a third-pair guy with some potential) and a fairly ordinary pick. We suspected that Petry wasn’t going to get the biggest value, but it’s still a pretty low return, especially when you consider the two-year salary holdback.
It’s not the amount withheld that bothers me, far from it. Rather, it’s the fact that between now and July 2025, Petry will take one of the three salary retention slots, and that’s what potentially handcuffs the Habs (especially with Joel Edmundson taking another one this year).
And when I consider all this, I ask myself the following question: hockey-wise, wouldn’t the CH have been better off keeping him?
And in fact, that’s a pretty noble reason. It makes the Habs look good in the eyes of the players, no doubt.
On the other hand, hockey-wise, the Habs didn’t improve today. For the next two years, Petry’s cap hit will be $2,343,750 on the payroll, and this year, Lindström will have a cap hit of $950,000 before being RFA (with arbitration rights) next summer.
I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have Petry, a top-4 defenseman, for $4,687,500.
That’s basically $1.4 million difference for a lesser defenseman and a conditional fourth-round pick in 2025. I know it’s not as simple as that, and it’s true that the Habs saved some money, but was it reallyworth it?
Today’s deal saved money on the mass → https://t.co/o1ALPbWYji
– DansLesCoulisses (@DLCoulisses) August 15, 2023
I totally understand the transaction on a human level, and it’s honorable of Kent Hughes to have accepted a lesser return to accommodate Petry. On the other hand, if Petry didn’t want to play in Montreal, all he had to do was put the club on his list of 15 (!) teams.
I’m willing to believe he wanted to be accommodated, but he was asking for trouble.
All’s well that ends well for Petry, then, and once again, the transaction is interesting for the CH on a human level. On the other hand, no one is going to make me believe that the CH is a better team tonight than it was yesterday.
In a gust
– I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Two years of Jeff Petry at 2.34 million? Not a bad day in Detroit.
– Simon-Olivier Lorange (@SO_Lorange) August 15, 2023
– Great read on the young Slovak.
What did Juraj Slafkovsky do in the offseason? Is he completely healed and ready for camp? What are his goals and what does he weigh today? You will find all of these answers and more in a Q & A email exchange I had with him:
https://t.co/4ULYNCqQeZ pic.twitter.com/mIKTOi5xpk– Grant McCagg (@grantmccagg) August 15, 2023
– Boston College has made it official that Jacob Fowler will join their program next year. It was unofficial, and now it’s official.
Welcome to the Heights, @jacobfowler24 🦅
Jacob was the 2023 @USHL Clark Cup MVP and Goaltender of the Year with the @YtownPhantoms.
He was then selected in the third round by the @CanadiensMTL over the summer. pic.twitter.com/JOB7WFKVow
– BC Men’s Hockey (@BC_MHockey) August 15, 2023
– Impressive.
Connor McDavid led all players with 64 goals in 2022-23 – the NHL’s highest total since Alex Ovechkin tallied 65 in 2007-08. #NHLStats pic.twitter.com/M4aAYPMjpi
– NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) August 15, 2023
– News from Joel Farabee.
Talked to Flyers forward Joel Farabee about his offseason, how it’s been having a normal offseason to work out and more. “Just having that whole offseason to work out, your body’s just in a way better place to endure a long season.” https://t.co/DlWzbXAT64 via @NHLdotcom
– Adam Kimelman (@NHLAdamK) August 15, 2023
– Ah well.
GSP is not among the top 5 in UFC history according to Dana Whitehttps://t.co/rvKaJBzJQX
– RDS (@RDSca) August 15, 2023