People Call For Gainey To Make Trade

With Montreal calling up Duncan Milroy, Andrei Kostitsyn, Jaroslav Halak within the past week. Lets hope that its a sign that they are going those more of a youth movement with Montreal. Gainey said he hasn’t decided whether to swing a deal leading up to the NHL trade deadline Tuesday or stick with the current roster. Some of the unrestricted free agents this summer are defencemen Sheldon Souray, Craig Rivet,Andrei Markov and Janne Niinimaa, forwards Mike Johnson, Radek Bonk and Aaron Downey and goaltender David Aebischer.

With people trying to put pressure on Jaroslav Halek those he is good and gives Montreal a chance to win. Halak has made the saves when Montreal needed it. That doesn’t mean that he has to get a shutout every game. He showed in the Columbus game that he can play well if given the opportunity. Since Montreal going on a 6 game lossing streak. Halek has guided Montreal to a 3 game win streak.

Bob Gainey can trade away Janne Niinimaa, Craig Rivet, Sergei Samsonov, Aaron Downey and maybe David Aebischer are players that could and maybe should be traded. It’s a tough market. Most teams, including Montreal, are already near the US$44-million salary cap, so money has to be considered in every deal. He should get rid of a couple big contracts. While making cap room he could get good lesser know players and draft picks. Montreal has some good young talent in the farm system