“Montreal’s GM Drops Bombshell: What Did He Really Mean by ‘Overpaying’ in Recent Trade Talks?”
Hughes on not moving their pending UFAs.
“I wouldn’t say that we came close,” Hughes said of dealing Armia. “By the time we got closer to the deadline, we started to move the goalposts a little bit for everybody. I told teams, ‘I can’t say an absolute ‘no,’ but it’s going to have to be a massive overpay for us to consider doing it.’
The other (pending UFAs), David Savard and Christian Dvorak, were less likely for me just because I didn’t think the return was worthwhile and we would have had to grab players out of (AHL) Laval and weaken Laval — and to get mid-round picks, it wasn’t worthwhile.”
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