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\t\t\t\t\tA trade between the Montreal Canadiens and the Calgary Flames, involving center Nazem Kadri<\/a>, would be very ironic for Kent Hughes.At the time, Kent Hughes acquired Sean Monahan<\/a> and a 2025 first-round pick for free, in exchange for future considerations.<\/p>\n But why did the Flames give up a first-round pick to the Montreal Canadiens just to get rid of Sean Monahan for free?<\/p>\n Well, it was because they absolutely wanted to sign Nazem Kadri as a free agent, and they didn’t have the cap space to do it.<\/p>\n So they immediately gave Monahan to Montreal to free up salary and sign Kadri.<\/p>\n Nazem Kadri available for free today from the Calgary Flames?<\/p>\n Everything indicates that the price to pay for Kadri today would be very minimal.<\/p>\n It’s incredible how much things can change in just a few years.<\/p>\n “The Flames want to get rid of Kadri’s contract right now, and the Canadiens would benefit from putting Kadri on the second line.<\/p>\n And if the Flames want us to absorb the full contract of Kadri, the full 7 million, it’s not going to cost anything.”<\/p>\n Imagine if, after being paid to acquire Sean Monahan for free in 2022, the Montreal Canadiens were to now acquire his replacement in Calgary, Nazem Kadri, for free!<\/p>\n In fact, he would only accept a trade to the Canadiens or the Toronto Maple Leafs.<\/p>\n That would be quite the “trade tree” for Calgary.<\/p>\n 1- They trade a first-round pick to Montreal so the Habs will take on Sean Monahan’s contract, in order to replace him with Nazem Kadri.<\/p>\n 2- Then they trade Nazem Kadri (for free or almost) to Montreal.<\/p>\n That would be incredible for Kent Hughes, but let’s wait and see what happens with this case.<\/p>\n Previously on HabsFanatics<\/p>\n POLL<\/p>\n 3 HOURS AGO\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0284 ANSWERS<\/p>\n Flames and Canadiens Could Strike Another Trade That Brings a Player to Montreal for Free<\/p>\n Would you take on Nazem Kadri and his contract for free, if that’s what the Flames want?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo credit: HabsFanatics\/ NHL A trade between the Montreal Canadiens and the Calgary Flames, involving center Nazem Kadri,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,762,48,743,8463,448,13673,35907,82,8464],"class_list":["post-53172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-calgary-flames","tag-canada","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-nazem-kadri","tag-nhl","tag-rumor","tag-sean-monahan","tag-sports","tag-transaction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}