Habs deadline review 2015-03-20 The habs trade deadline started earlier this week with the team trading their leading scorer and team captain gabriel landeskog to the new york rangers in exchange for scoring winger nino niedereiter and nail yakupov with a 2nd " We hate losing a guy like landeskog but i like the potential of the players we got back , i believe nino will be a 30 goal scorer in this league and yakupov is starting to become the player he was supposed to be as a n 1 pick . " - gm boudreau Yesterday habs started the trade deadline with trading defenceman mark stuart and eric tangradi for mike richards. " mike was brought in to replace the leadership we lost with kog and we also needed to add salary to our cap, mike struggled lately but we will give him a chance to succeed in mtl ". next trade habs traded winger chris stewart to the avalanche in return for chris terry and young prospect connor brown . and late last night habs traded mike weaver also to the avalanche for a fourth rnd pick in 2016. with all the trades heres what the habs lineup should look like next game niedereiter - bjugstad - gallagher huberdeau - richards - wilson roy - girgensons - yakupov hoffman - pirri - terry goligoski - hjarlmasson klefbom - despres beaulieu - redmond ward raanta
