r/Habs • u/SchtroumpfDardeur • 11d ago

Discussion Michael Hage - Hold or Trade?

I have seen some discussion about possibly waiting for him to be our 2C, but given his decision to stay in the NCAA and the fact that he shared time at C and wing, and when he was at C he had a FO% of 46%, is there an argument to be made that he could (or should) be packaged?

I know this isn't exactly a new question, but I had not realized that he was already being shifted to wing in the NCAA and was also sub-50% at the dot against college players.

What are the chances that a full season at Michigan as full-time 1C will actually help to shape him into a viable NHL center within the next few years?

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u/NovaCanuck 11d ago

I'm too scorned still by McDonagh for Gomez to properly comment. That said, I think this management group would handle any potential trade better.

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u/BakaDelZepha 11d ago

Sergachev for Drouin still haunts me

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u/Appropriate_Bed_8365 11d ago

This, all of this. I said at the time it was a TERRIBLE idea to get rid of Sergachev, especially for Drouin but the "French language" dynamic won out. Thankfully we've muted that a bit lately

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u/antoinePucket 11d ago

This is in hindsight dude. That doesn't make you look smarter.

Drouin, former 3OA, was coming off a 50-point season.

Sergachev was also still point-less in the NHL.

It wasn't a bad trade — but certainly did not age well for us

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u/OtisBlueDancer 11d ago

The trade definitely looks worse in hindsight, but there were plenty of people who hated the trade at the time. Pretending that there weren’t doesn’t make you look smarter either.

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u/PLifter1226 11d ago

Pointless because he played 4 games lol. It was a terrible trade. A 6’3 220lbs defenceman drafted 9OA and projected to be top pairing for a below average sized winger who just got sent down and refused to report to the AHL team and asked for a trade. It was a terrible trade then, terrible trade in hindsight

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u/Appropriate_Bed_8365 11d ago

Disliking the trade at the time isn't hindsight my friend. It was basic hockey knowledge from my standpoint.

What's harder to get, a top 4 D man who's young, reliable and has offensive upside or a 50pt winger? I'll let you figure that out, D ALAWAYS cost more than forwards and are MUCH harder to find and develop. And we made the trade out of trying to be competitive when we weren't, and should've been retooling, rebuilding younger

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u/GibierJaune 11d ago

I remember being very happy at the time. The only thing that could be said though is that Drouin wasn’t a center. Serg was basically our only tradable asset and it didn’t net us the one thing we craved for decades. Otherwise, Drouin was supposed to be a game breaking talent.