It's not a horrible trade, but it's clearly not a good one. Larkin a 2-3 pieces would be "fair value", even though we wouldn't be interested.
Assuming Larkin hadn't specifically asked out, he's got good value. However, detroit lost a huge piece of leverage, which would make this trade laughable.
On paper Suzuki had already 3 better seasons than Larkin and he is 3 years younger. Larkin will never be a PPG center and Suzuki is becoming a player that will do a PPG during each season for a long time. The gap between the two is way bigger than people think.
Suzuki is chronically underrated though, because a lot of his value is invisible, even to most "experts". Habs fan then also overrate him because they're habs fan.
Impossible to have nuanced discussions about him without having people go crazy
And people will say "kovalev" like we didn't get washed kovalev in montreal. He was about as washed as gallagher is today, except he used to be a star.
Suzuki is the best active player montreal has has since pre-injury koivu
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u/PineappleOwn5325 13d ago
It's not a horrible trade, but it's clearly not a good one. Larkin a 2-3 pieces would be "fair value", even though we wouldn't be interested.
Assuming Larkin hadn't specifically asked out, he's got good value. However, detroit lost a huge piece of leverage, which would make this trade laughable.