The actual trade, for now, is secondary. It’s important to realize that.



We don’t know what’s going to come after this trade, we don’t know how Marc Bergevin is going to use the additional cap space he just acquired, we don’t know a lot.



One thing we do know is that the Canadiens had an asset in Alex Galchenyuk, a relatively valuable one, one who has scored 30 goals in a season, one who is 24 years old. Not everyone scores 30 goals in a season, particularly not when they are 22 years old like Galchenyuk was when he reached that mark in 2016.



The thing about that milestone is Galchenyuk did it playing centre. He did it in a season where the games were basically meaningless, yes, but for a reason that will never be entirely clear, the Canadiens refused to see Galchenyuk as a centre basically from that point onward. He played in the middle at the start of the 2016-17 season, was one of the top scorers in the league with 23 points in...