Montreal Canadiens: Trade Deadline Power Rankings
By Ryan Praught
Prior to his disappointing showing versus the Lightning, Jake Allen was having a tremendous start to the season. Even after that game, it doesn’t change the fact he’s a serviceable NHL goalie. That may not seem like much of a selling point from a trading perspective, but apparently, that’s a tough ask for some teams, cough *Edmonton* cough.
And the Canadiens are currently carrying three goalies in the NHL, something they don’t want to do. Trading Allen seems like a good solution, and if a team gets desperate enough, they may just fork over something significant in hopes of stabilizing the position.
Pierre LeBrun says the Hurricanes want to add goaltending depth throughout their organization (hence PTO to Halak which was not because of Andersen Injury).
— Ryan Praught (@RyanPraught) November 7, 2023
Says their monitoring teams currently juggling three goalies in Detroit and Montreal. https://t.co/bpDLcIsxso
Allen has a reasonable cap hit of $3.85 million for this season and next and can provide some stability in the crease. You have to think for a team with McDavid and Draisaitl on it, they don’t need much more than that.
We’ll have to see what teams reach a point where they need to upgrade their current crop of goalies. Every year, there is at least one team that could stand to upgrade the position. And the Canadiens are dealing from a surplus, knowing they’ll still have two goalies at the NHL level. If Jake Allen can keep his stellar play up (we’ll chalk Tampa up as just an off night), you’d have to think the Habs can do well for themselves here.