What will it cost a team to acquire Mason McTavish from the Anaheim Ducks? Would the Canadiens of Montreal participate in that piece?
The Shaun Starr Show: Shaun Starr and Marco d’Amico talk about the potential availability of Anaheim Ducks RFA Vooruit Mason Mctavish. What are the ducks looking for and would it be logical for the Montreal Canadiens?
D’Amico: “This is Pat Verbeek -classic, anyway? Where he waits with his RFAs. The most recent is Trevor Zegras, right? And I think that’s what the rumor mill started because you have seen this situation before.”
Starr: “Totally, but when I ask, let me know, when they decide to leave Trevor Zegras, anyway? In my mind, when that movement was made at the time, I have made a decision. They prefer Mason McTavish in Anaheim in Anaheim that goes ahead than they Trevor Zegras.
That is how I interpreted that decision from the Front Office in South California. But here, here, here we are now talking about the weather in mid -August, the possibility that is strong or weak, that Mason Mctavish is probably moved.
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So I think every Canadiens fan who is looking at us now would like to see a Mason McTavish. This is a six-foot one man, you know, more than 200 pounds, as if he checks many boxes and … “
D’Amico: “Left shot.”
Starr: “Well, all. And you look at this one, everyone loves the proven perspective, in contrast to, you know what could be. I will throw a name, such as Michael Hage.
I mean, 140 NHL points and 229 NHL games. I mean, let’s take, let’s take a break and talk about it, okay, Mason Mctavish is available. The Canadiens kick tires as they should. Every responsible organization that is rebuilt must at least inform the absolute minimum.
What is it going, what will it cost? I mean, which world exists? A real, a realistic world, such as, it’s David Reinbacher, plus. It is Michael Hage, plus. Like, first round picks, you plus a prospects, right? “
D’Amico: “Yes. And even then I don’t even think they are really interested in the first round Picks. My colleague Jimmy Murphy recently postponed an article where he had a source, indicates that the only thing that will really attract Anaheim at the moment is a current or future top-pair right-shot defender.
The Canadians have one in Noah Dobson, that is not moving. And then the Canadians have one in the projection form in David Reinbacher. But I don’t think the Canadians will spend in one summer, having two really good young pieces on the right side of their defense in (Logan) Mailloux and Reinbacher, and then trade them both when they act for Dobson.
I think if you look at Stanley Cup-winning teams, they always have a closed, real estate top-four that just eats those minutes, 50 of the 60 minutes per game, if things don’t work overtime. And that is what the Canadians essentially built up, right? I think Dobson plays with (Kaiden) Guhle is logical. I think Lane Hutson is ultimately logical with David Reinbacher. And then you supplement, you have filled your third pair. If you want people there, it works too. You could exchange for a right shot with bottom pair D. Alex Carrier can be expanded. There may be a prospect that comes in and takes up that place. But ideally your top four is locked and you trade out your bottom pair.
And if that is the vision that you know we have seen in the past of Jeff Gordon and the teams he has built, I do not necessarily see the Canadians trying to fill one hole by exposing themselves to the other. Because and I explain this, noah Dobson was initially made available, or when I, when I said that Noah Dobson was on the list of Canadians and that they had kick tires on him in the spring, many people said it would cost, you know, Caulfield, (inaudible), etc., etc. And it eventually became two and Emil Heineman, because of a situation that unfolded.
And I feel that it is where the Canadians are now. They are in a situation where they want something to happen so that they can jump. And I don’t think something is happening now with Mason McTavish. I think this is summer speculation that only runs amok.
I think he starts, with what I hear, he starts the season in Anaheim to start. “
Starr: “Right.”
D’Amico: “And the preparation of Roger McQueen, which all this started is not enough. In my opinion, he is away from the injury he had last year for at least two years. He is at least two years away from sniffing the NHL.
Starr: “Exactly.”
D’Amico: “I am not sure if Michael Granlund Center will play for the Anaheim Ducks. The way in which Quennville. Joel Quennville likes to run his teams. He loves large centers in the middle. I don’t necessarily think that is going on.
There are simply many situations, many casual situations, create this assumption that he is being pushed out. He can eventually be traded, yes, but I think, if he is traded, it would be for the precise need and really the only need that the Anaheim – ducks at the moment – would a trial D. “
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Starr: “And what real, because I would think, just to prevent that, right? And you know, just so that we are here on the same page. I see it all the way you have sketched it a bit. I would be more than shocked if David Reinbacher was part of this. Studs, and Hudson and Dobson, of course I know, the guidance, Doing, and I think David Reinbacher would be an integral part that will finish and complete it, right?
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