Trading Max Pacioretty was always going to be a risky proposition for the Montreal Canadiens. Generally speaking, it will always be risky to trade an established, perennial 30-goal threat, since there is no guarantee that you’re going to get that type of production coming back the other way.
He may not be a 30-goal threat himself just yet, but Nick Suzuki alone looks good enough overall to justify Marc Bergevin’s decision to trade the former captain.
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Coming into his first professional season, the expectation was that he’d probably get some time in Laval.