With the CanadiensMTL and GoldenKnights meeting in a semifinal playoff series, the Max Pacioretty-Nick Suzuki trade doesn’t feel like a sideshow at this moment. It's a main-card event. (✍️: EricEngels)
trade doesn’t feel like a sideshow at this moment. It’s a main-card event — even if Pacioretty said on Sunday that he doesn’t think it makes a difference who you play in the playoffs.
None of it was good towards the end. Pacioretty followed up a goal-less 2017 playoff with a career-low 17-goal output during the 2017-18 season. He stood at the helm of a Canadiens team that had sunken to the bottom of the NHL standings by the time it was decided he was going to be moved with a year remaining on his contract.
That became impossible for New Canaan, Conn., native in Montreal.
The 32-year-old, who missed Vegas’ first six games of these playoffs with an injury, has four goals and has scored at least a point in all seven games he’s played. “We liked the upside of Nick,” Bergevin said on Saturday when he was asked to revisit the deal. “But when you look at an 18- or 19-year-old player, he’s never a finished product. There’s always steps the player needs to take in his hands to get to the next level.”
“There’s players who, under pressure, will fold,” said Bergevin, “but Nick, over a very long time, has raised his game more and more with the stage getting bigger. It’s a thing, even in the Memorial Cup, when I went to see him against Ottawa, he really impressed me in the big games in the way he comported himself. And that’s the same thing we’re pretty much seeing now. And Nick still has a lot of potential to get better and get to another level.
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