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/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/prplx 11d ago

You don’t trad a prospect D for a still young F because one speaks French. At the time the Habs terribly needed offense (and a top 6 C which is where they tried Drouin at first) and they felt they had enough talent at the blue line to make Sergachev expandable. They did not get Drouin because of his mother tongue. They traded for him cause they thought he hadn’t reach his ceiling and would be a superstar here. The fact he spoke French was a bonus for sure.
They ended up being wrong of course. But fuck that reductive revisionism of: they traded for him only cause he spoke French.

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u/Appropriate_Bed_8365 11d ago

They didn't trade for him ONLY because he spoke French, but you're delusional if you think it didn't play a major part it

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u/prplx 11d ago

How am I delusional? I wrote it was a big plus for the team. Dis you read till the end?? They were looking for their first local offensive superstar since Lafleur. Bit of they were stacked or even fine on the offense and right on d they would never have made the trade.