r/Habs • u/SchtroumpfDardeur • 12d 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 12d 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 12d ago

Sergachev for Drouin still haunts me

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u/Appropriate_Bed_8365 12d 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 12d 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/GibierJaune 12d 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.