NHL Rumors: Will the Anaheim Geese Really Transfer On from Mason McTavish?

Don’t Count on Mason McTavish To Be Traded from Anaheim

Dennis Bernstein of The Fourth Interval joined TSN Radio in Montreal and was requested about Anaheim Geese RFA Mason McTavish and whether or not he may wind up in Montreal. Bernstein believes the Geese received’t commerce him, and he’ll finally register Anaheim.

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Host: “I feel folks in Montreal are particularly questioning about Mason McTavish, who remains to be unsigned.”

Dennis Bernstein: “Yeah, nicely, you’re going to need to pay that participant, what, most likely $7 million. Effectively, initially, he’s obtained to and it’s not simply, you’ll be able to’t supply sheet a man, proper? It’s important to have an settlement with him on a time period, or a contract. He’s obtained to wish to play right here on the time period. And so the extra logical technique to purchase him can be, I feel, by way of commerce. However I don’t perceive the narrative about Mason McTavish.

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Now, I get it. They traded Zegras, however Zegras, whenever you have a look at these two gamers, who’s extra of a Joel Quenneville sort of participant, Trevor Zegras or Mason McTavish? It’s Mason McTavish, proper? So, and this group, I feel, was thirtieth in offense, proper? You’re going to commerce your 2C, elevate Strome to it from 3C to 2C, and suppose you’re going to be higher offensively. I don’t perceive it. It’ll get finished. He has no leverage, and it’d give him $5 or $6 million a yr, a bridge contract, proper?

So, I don’t perceive that, as a result of the place Anaheim is of their improvement, you wouldn’t commerce that participant. You wouldn’t commerce a younger 2C. Plus, I’d prefer to see him a yr beneath Quenneville. Like, if it doesn’t work this yr for him, and he doesn’t elevate like, as a result of proper now, the primary middle of the long run in Anaheim is Leo Carlsson. Quantity two can be Mason McTavish. He can be a very stable, I feel, quantity two middle, most likely for 10 or 12 years on this league.

So, yeah. So whereas Habs can want and hope and pray and dream that Mason McTavish can a way wind up in Montreal. I don’t see Anaheim letting go of him at this cut-off date of their improvement.”

NHLRumors.com Observe: As documented on NHLRumors.com, the Mason McTavish saga continues to pull on. Anaheim Geese GM Pat Verbeek comes from the Steve Yzerman faculty of giving gamers bridge offers popping out of entry-level. Nonetheless, the final two bridge offers Verbeek negotiated with Trevor Zegras and Jamie Drysdale didn’t go nicely, and each gamers at the moment are with the Philadelphia Flyers.

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Nonetheless, as we’ve seen up to now with supply sheets, different GMs across the league don’t wish to do Verbeek’s work for him. So it stays a battle between McTavish and Verbeek. However the longer this drags on, the extra regarding it’s as a result of they want McTavish in camp with Joel Quenneville instituting his system. Whereas McTavish can be the right match for what the Montreal Canadiens are searching for, does Kent Hughes wish to surrender the mandatory property to get him?

But when the Geese had been to commerce McTavish and probably Olen Zellweger, then the chatter of what Pat Verbeek is doing in Anaheim would decide up much more.

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