P.K. Subban Trade Blindsides Montreal Media

Front-page boos.

In the Montreal Gazette, Brendan Kelly writes that Wednesday’s straight-up trade by the Montreal Canadiens of defenseman P.K. Subban to the Nashville Predators for defenseman Shea Webber is ‘the worst move by the Habs since Réjean Houle dealt Patrick Roy to the Colorado Avalanche for a bag of pucks in 1995.’

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Fellow Montreal sportswriter Andrew Berkshire goes one better in his sportsnet.ca piece:

There is a tendency in the era of social media to overreact to big trades, pronouncing an instant winner and loser without all the details.

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