Love Letters to Klim Kostin

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Love Letters to Klim Kostin

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2020 Montreal Canadiens Draft Review

Rodion Amirov
NSH 1st (19th overall): Acquired from Los Angeles along with Matthew Boldy for Martin Necas and Ethan Bear.
The pick: After flirting with Dr. Taranu for hours on end about moving the pick, Vik finally revealed himself as nothing but a tease and made the selection himself.
The player: No eyecatching skills to speak of but no real flaws either.

Shakir Mukhamadullin
NYR 3rd (74th overall): Acquired from New York along with 2020 NYR 1st (William Wallinder) for 2018 MTL 1st (Isac Lundeström) and 2020 MTL 2nd (Thomas Bordeleau).
The pick: How did Detroit end up with all the other players involved in this deal? Seriously, they made the Wallinder and Bordeleau picks and they traded for Lundeström.
The player: Big and mean and years away from being the least bit useful.

Luke Evangelista
MTL 3rd (86th overall)
The pick: I'm just amazed I held on to one of my own picks.
The player: Markus Granlund with almost not bad hitting. Markus Granlund is a highly sought after player ... right?

Simon Kubicek
BOS 4th (91st overall): Acquired from Boston for Nikita Korostelev.
The pick: Incredibly heated and exhausting negotiations resulted in a leaguing changing deal. Or I had a player I didn't have a spot for and Boston had a pick but no player they wanted to use it on. One of the two.
The player: Aspires to be Ronald Knot. He won't get there, but it's good to have goals.

Maxwell Crozier
DAL 5th (150th overall): Acquired from Calgary for Vyacheslav Voinov.
The pick: That trade was ages ago. It was one where I no longer had use for Voinov and no one wanted to give me anything for him. Eventually, someone offered me the latest 5th they could so I took it and ran.
The player: CON booster who was passed over last year and is already a 79 in hitting.
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Re: Love Letters to Klim Kostin

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A Summary of Vik's Biggest Trades

I guess I'm feeling nostalgic. I've made 126 trades in my time here (yes, I keep track) so there are several noteworthy deals not in this list (I ignored any from this offseason), but I tried to stick to the ones that (basically) made my team what it is.

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To Montreal				To Nashville
Ryan Suter				Andrei Kostitsyn
Colin Wilson				2015 ARI 1st (Jakub Zboril)
Julius Honka
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=4881&p=41957#p41957

My very first deal as GM of the Habs. I actually only asked Nashville about Colin Wilson and this was the offer Lubos made me. Wasn't really looking for this big of a deal so soon but my top dman at the time was Luca Sbisa and Andrei Kostitsyn actually had a bigger cap hit then so didn't see how I could pass it up.

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To Montreal				To Calgary
Shawn Matthias				Colin Wilson
Jaden Schwartz				Chris Kreider
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=5201&p=44749#p44749

Shawn Matthias was not the player he is now when this deal came about. I basically burned a year developing him the following season which is part of the reason I have had no intention of parting with him since (as many of have found out). I was initially hesitant to make this deal though because I liked Wilson and wasn't too fond of Schwartz. I came around to it when I decided I could probably get someone better back for Schwartz than I could for Kreider.

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To Montreal				To Boston
Kenny Ryan				Justin Abdelkader
Anthony Florentino
2015 TOR 5th (Andrew Mangiapane)
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=5581&p=47541#p47541

This trade looks ridiculously lopsided now but it could have easily been a nothing deal. This was pre-Vopatization Justin Abdelkader who was by no means a star but still rather useful. And Kenny Ryan was garbage. I mentioned burning a year developing Matthias, I also worked hard at developing Kenny Ryan that year and that's why I can't seem to let my lovely PP specialist go.

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To Montreal				To Arizona
Mike Richards				Magnus Hellberg
Luca Hischier				Ryan Martindale
					Luca Sbisa
					Oleg Misyul
					2015 EDM 1st (Daniel Sprong)
					2015 WSH 2nd (Evgeni Svechnikov)
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=5583&p=47549#p47549

What a different time this deal comes from. Back in the day, it used to actually be difficult to get a good goalie on a decent contract. Hellberg was just such a goalie so that actually had value back then. And I mentioned Sbisa was my top dman when I got here. He oughtn't have been a top dman for anyone but he was a very nice piece at the time. The Hischier-for-Misyul attempted boost deal was something I'd been hounding Alex about previously that he finally relented to as part of this deal.

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To Montreal				To Los Angeles
Gabriel Carlsson			2016 MTL 1st (Pierre-Luc Dubois)
2016 COL 1st (Matthew Tkachuk)		2016 WSH 1st (Patrik Laine)
2017 LA 1st (Pierre-Olivier Joseph)
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=6610&p=54489#p54489

I actually only just now found out I once held the pick that became PO Joseph. Who knew? Anywho, I wouldn't have made this deal if I had any idea Minnesota was going to take Mattson. I would've stayed put and taken Chychrun and Laine. But it doesn't seem to have worked out too poorly for me.

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To Montreal				To Chicago
Alexander Burmistrov			Leon Bristedt
2018 CHI 5th (Kirill Slepets)		2017 LA 1st (Pierre-Olivier Joseph)
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=6900&p=56351#p56351

The previous Chicago GM had built up salaries of, I think, over 100M in the offseason. I remember making him several offers to help alleviate that burden before it got that excessive only to see him make some other deal that actually added to his cap space. After I did some calculations and posted about how ridiculous his salaries were becoming, he ditched. So Bern took over and had to cut salaries however he could. This deal was actually Burmistrov for the 1st but I was at the 50 contract limit so I suggested the Bristedt for a 5th bit. Bern always has contracts spots and Bristedt was making the minimum at the time so I figured he might actually get some use out of him. And he did. I've kind of been tracking Bristedt's career even since, just because I find it somewhat amusing. Also, I had a bunch of 1sts I could've moved in the deal and I chose the LA pick entirely so I could feel better about the previous deal. Now it's Tkachuk, Carlsson, and Burmistrov that I got for my picks! Doesn't that make you feel better?

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To Montreal				To Calgary
Brian Lee				Pavel Zacha
					Fredrik Forsberg
					Trent Fox
					2017 TB 2nd (Jake Leschyshyn)
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=7175&p=57967#p57967

I tried a few times to get Lee from Calgary, but he kept asking for some form of this deal. That seemed too rich for my blood for the longest time until, eventually, I couldn't take how awful my D was any longer and pulled the trigger. Pretty sure this caused the swing in my team that led to a rather impressive showing in the second half of 2016-17. Unfortunately, I was trying to tank at the time after getting off to such a terrible start.

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To Montreal				To San Jose
2017 SJ 1st (Klim Kostin)		2017 TOR 1st (Maxwell Gildon)
					2017 ARI 1st (Kailer Yamamoto)
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=7526&p=60109#p60109

For some perspective on this deal, you new folks should know that Kostin and Gildon were both POT boosters. That is to say, I gave up a 1st round pick to move up 5 spots to take a ridiculously big swing (which I justified with a Jack Nicholson GIF). My thinking was, I had lots of players who could be useful but needed stars. Kostin was the one player left in the draft that I thought could be a game changer so who cares if it's a bad deal? And I've got no regrets about it.

I also very much enjoyed re-reading my reasoning for the deal at the time.

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To Montreal				To Ottawa
Jason Spezza				Brian Lee
Ty Dellandrea				Thomas Novak
					Devante Stephens
					2020 NYR 1st (William Wallinder)
					2019 MTL 2nd (Alex Campbell)
					2019 VAN 3rd (Mark Kastelic)
					2020 BUF 3rd (Roby Jarventie)
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=8615&p=66024#p66024

I tried hard to get a pick to use on Jarventie at the draft - didn't realize until now that it was a pick I gave up that actually was used on him. As for the deal, a GM-less Senators team got off to a surprisingly terrible start that season and had cap problems to go with it. When Marty put Spezza on the block, I jumped at the chance. Marty kept adding more and more to the deal and I kept saying OK until I finally told him I'd agree to his most recent offer but only if we did it right then. Clearly, we did. Also, feel I should mention that Devante Stephens was a CON booster who did just that (as you can see in the trade thread)

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To Montreal				To Chicago
Alexander Ovechkin			Matthew Tkachuk
Jon Gillies				Gabriel Carlsson
					2020 MTL 1st (Yan Kuznetsov)
					2020 TB 1st (Dylan Peterson)
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=8912&p=67405#p67405

Funny thing about this deal, I'd asked Calgary about Ovechkin years earlier. They wanted a package back that included my two high first round picks. If you've read up to here, you'll know I dealt those two picks in a deal that saw me get Matthew Tkachuk and Gabriel Carlsson. Wish I could remember what else would've been involved.

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To Montreal				To Chicago
Shea Weber				Ryan Suter
Corey Perry				Matthew Spencer
					David Cotton
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=8989&p=67881#p67881

A lot of Chicago on this list, isn't there. I had no room for Corey Perry and not knowing if I was going to be able to move him, I was extremely conservative in free agency last year. Fortunately, found a deal with Boston for him and got some breathing room. But I am a little curious about what I would've done had I room to play with.

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To Montreal				To Carolina
Nikolai Glukhov				Marcus Foligno
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=9199&p=68719#p68719

For the new folks, this was a CON boost deal gone right (for me at least). I'd tried to get Glukhov in a booster deal before, this was the first time I had anything Dave found useful.


So that's a lot of how I went from this...

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Joe Pavelski		Marc Savard		Ales Hemsky
Brenden Morrow		Mike Fisher		Andrei Kostitsyn
Alexander Frolov	Kyle Okposo		Colten St. Clair
Valtteri Filppula	Thomas Hundertpfund	Rene Bourque

		Luca Sbisa		Matt Niskanen
		Sheldon Souray		Eric Brewer
		Nigel Williams		Nick Boynton

			Samu Perhonen
			Magnus Hellberg

Michael Raffl		Joel Ward		Michael Matheson
To where I'm at now.
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Re: Love Letters to Klim Kostin

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I regret trading you Weber :D
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Re: Love Letters to Klim Kostin

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Bernyhawks wrote: Sun Oct 04, 2020 10:31 pm I regret trading you Weber :D
But will you regret it when he's looking for his raise after this season?
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Re: Love Letters to Klim Kostin

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For any of the early readers who missed it (and are in any way interested), I added what my lineup was when I took over at the end of the post.
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Re: Love Letters to Klim Kostin

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My spreadsheet says that Gildon is worth at least a point more than Kostin (no further comment on Tarasenko). If you want top line winger Joe Pavelski back then we can talk.
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Re: Love Letters to Klim Kostin

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Montreal All-time Stats Leaders

Left is regular season, right is playoffs.

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Games played
1) Ryan Suter (403)		Alexander Burmistrov (44)
2) Mike Richards (384)		Shawn Matthias (44)
3) Kenny Ryan (383)		Calvin Pickard (44)
4) Jimmy Hayes (378)		Ivan Telegin (44)
5) Alexander Burmistrov (317)	Luke Ripley (42)
Shawn Matthias is the only player on the right who is still around.

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Goals
1) Alexander Burmistrov (125)	Jason Spezza (13)
2) Kenny Ryan (123)		Klim Kostin (13)
3) Mike Richards (115)		Alexander Burmistrov (13)
4) Jimmy Hayes (90)		Mike Richards (12)
5) Matthew Tkachuk (60)		Shawn Matthias (12)

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Assists
1) Kenny Ryan (183)		Ryan Suter (24)
2) Ryan Suter (181)		Alexander Burmistrov (18)
3) Alexander Burmistrov (118)	Jason Spezza (16)
4) Mike Richards (116)		Luke Ripley (16)
5) Jimmy Hayes (110)		Shawn Matthias (16)
Luke Ripley???

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Points
1) Kenny Ryan (306)		Alexander Burmistrov (31)
2) Alexander Burmistrov (243)	Jason Spezza (29)
3) Mike Richards (231)		Shawn Matthias (28)
4) Ryan Suter (221)		Mike Richards (27)
5) Jimmy Hayes (200)		Ryan Suter (25)
Shawn Matthias isn't someone I would've thought of for playoff point leaders.

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Points per game (minimum half a season)
1) Alexander Ovechkin (0.99)	Alexander Ovechkin (1.18)
2) Ales Hemsky (0.94)		Jason Spezza (0.91)
3) Jason Spezza (0.85)		Shea Weber (0.82)
4) Kenny Ryan (0.80)		Ryan Suter (0.76)
5) Alexander Burmistrov (0.77)	Matthew Tkachuk/Milan Michalek (0.73)

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+/-
1) Mike Richards (+70)		Shawn Matthias (+26)
2) Kenny Ryan (+68)		Gabriel Carlsson (+13)
3) Ivan Telegin (+60)		Nikolai Glukhov (+12)
4) Alexander Ovechkin (+53)	Matthew Spencer (+11)
5) Alexander Burmistrov (+51)	Matthew Tkachuk (+10)
Kind of ridiculous that Alexander Ovechkin is on here after only one season.

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PIM
1) Alexander Burmistrov (607)	Alexander Burmistrov (68)
2) Jared Boll (434)		Brendan Warren (50)
3) Kenny Ryan (434)		Kenny Ryan (30)
4) Jimmy Hayes (365)		Jimmy Hayes (20)
5) Heikki Liedes (305)		Dany Heatley (18)
Columbus was settling a score with Brendan Warren in the playoffs this year.

Single Season Stats Leaders

Doesn't seem worthwhile to do playoffs for this.

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Goals
1) Alexander Ovechkin (44 in 2019/20)
2) Jimmy Hayes (33 in 2016/17)
3) Alexander Burmistrov (32 in 2016/17)
4) Alexander Burmistrov (31 in 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20)
   Ales Hemsky (31 in 2014/15)
   Kenny Ryan (31 in 2016/17)
7) Devin Setoguchi (30 in 2014/15)
   Henrik Zetterberg (30 in 2017/18)
Jimmy Hayes being #2 was a genuine surprise. Also enjoy Devin Setoguchi making a mark.

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Assists
1) Kenny Ryan (48 in 2018/19)
2) Ales Hemsky (46 in 2014/15)
3) Ryan Suter (45 in 2017/18)
4) Matthew Tkachuk (44 in 2018/19)
5) Shea Weber (42 in 2019/20)
6) Kenny Ryan (41 in 2019/20)
I was expecting more Kenny Ryan.

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Points
1) Alexander Ovechkin (79 in 2019/20)
2) Ales Hemsky (77 in 2014/15)
3) Kenny Ryan (75 in 2018/19)
4) Matthew Tkachuk (69 in 2018/19)
5) Kenny Ryan (68 in 2016/17)
6) Kenny Ryan (65 in 2019/20)
   Alexander Burmistrov (65 in 2016/17)
8) Alexander Burmistrov (63 in 2018/19)
   Klim Kostin (63 in 2019/20)
   Jason Spezza (63 in 2019/20)
11) Jimmy Hayes (62 in 2016/17)
    Kenny Ryan (62 in 2017/18)
13) Mike Richards (61 in 2018/19)
Jimmy Hayes having a high scoring season than Mike Richards is outstanding.

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+/-
1) Alexander Ovechkin (+53 in 2019/20)
2) Brian Lee (+35 in 2017/18)
3) Mike Richards (+33 in 2018/19)
4) Alexander Burmistrov (+30 in 2017/18)
5) Ivan Telegin (+30 in 2018/19)
Bit of a drop off after #1.

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PIM
1) Alexander Burmistrov (163 in 2018/19)
2) Alexander Burmistrov (159 in 2017/18)
3) Alexander Burmistrov (157 in 2019/20)
4) Heikki Liedes (145 in 2015/16)
5) Jared Boll (144 in 2014/15)
6) Jared Boll (141 in 2016/17)
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Re: Love Letters to Klim Kostin

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Yeah, I didn't expect that from Kenny Ryan. Good on him.
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Ryan Suter now patrolling the NYR blue line as we hope he brings us back to the promised land! (He did have his 2nd best points total ever with 44a and 53 pts)

This was cool to read, something to look forward to over the years. And HAHA on CHI basically going 40m over the cap then saying "hey peace out"
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Re: Love Letters to Klim Kostin

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Bruins_GM wrote: Mon Oct 05, 2020 7:15 amYeah, I didn't expect that from Kenny Ryan. Good on him.
AHL scoring machine (75 SH, PL) and worst defensive player in the game (around 40 CH, PO I think). Wish I had an old file to check exactly what he was at but the earliest I can find is from October 2016 (after a year of force feeding him minutes). At that point, he was:

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SH 85
PL 88
ST 60
CH 61
PO 47
HI 64
SK 71
EN 79
FA 84
LE 45
SR 72
Who wasn't constantly pleading with me to hand over my 47 PO player?
NYRNYRNYR wrote: Mon Oct 05, 2020 4:01 pmThis was cool to read, something to look forward to over the years. And HAHA on CHI basically going 40m over the cap then saying "hey peace out"
Decided to find the old post. That was before salary rollbacks so he was only 30M over the cap. "Only." I kinda miss Seb, though. He was the type who seemed to like trading more than anything else. He kept the place lively.
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Re: Love Letters to Klim Kostin

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I picture a large Timbits hockey player, screwing around in the corner, who magically gets the puck, goes end to end and scores.
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