Sid Seixeiro says one Canadian team should go all in for Sidney Crosby, names his trade price

Sid Seixeiro just turned up the heat on one of hockey's longest running fantasies.

On The Sick Podcast this week, the Montreal radio personality said the Canadiens should stop dancing around it and go all in for Sidney Crosby.

It is not exactly a new idea. Fans have floated Crosby to Montreal for years, mostly because he grew up a Habs fan before Pittsburgh drafted him first overall back in 2005.

But Seixeiro's version comes with an actual price tag attached.

He floated a package built around top prospect Michael Hage and Montreal's 2027 first round pick heading to Pittsburgh in return.

The timing matters more than usual here.

Crosby is heading into a stretch where his next contract with the Penguins still has not been sorted out, and there is no extension in place yet.

Add in Pittsburgh's uncertain direction and the noise around his future has started creeping back into hockey conversations, even if his camp keeps shutting it down publicly.

Kent Hughes has spent years stockpiling young talent and draft capital in Montreal, and giving up a piece like Hage for a 39 year old rental, even a productive one coming off a 74 point season, would mean spending from that reserve instead of adding to it.

That is the tension Seixeiro's idea creates.

If it somehow happened, Crosby would slot into a top six already built around Nick Suzuki, Cole Caufield, Juraj Slafkovsky, Ivan Demidov and Lane Hutson.

That alone explains why the idea keeps resurfacing every time Pittsburgh stumbles.

Whether Seixeiro's suggestion has any real traction remains to be seen, but it has certainly got Habs fans talking again.

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