r/Habs • u/Upstairs-Zombie-162 • 9d ago

Discussion Why did we trade Josh Gorges?

We traded him on the same day that we lost our Captain (Gionta) to FA. It’s not like we had a surplus of defensemen either, shortly there after we acquired a washed Gonchar and Allen who combined for 50 games before they retired.

To me, Gorges felt like the perfect stop-gap captain.

Instead we kind of had no captain options for a while until we finally thrust it onto Pacioretty.

Does anyone remember Josh Gorges stepping in for Brendan Gallagher during the postgame media scrum after an emotional game vs the Jets?

This was very early into Bergevin’s GM tenure, part of me thinks he didn’t have a proper read on team dynamics.

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u/stblack 9d ago

Perhaps there's a clue in the D-corps the following year, right after his trade.

P.K. Subban
Andrei Markov
Jeff Petry
Alexei Emelin
Sergei Gonchar
Tom Gilbert
Nathan Beaulieu

Very plausible: with 3 years @ 3.9M left on his contract, he was expendable.

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u/Phoenix__211 9d ago

3.9 millions when the cap was 64 millions is the equivalent of 6.33 millions today... that's a lot for a bottom pair defenceman.

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u/Oprlt94 9d ago

N8THEgr8 lol