CHfan1
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Depends how you measure success.
Cup contenders? No. More likely to make the playoffs? Yes.
ROR would be our best center by a mile. He would make our wingers better and everybody putting their hopes on poehling, do people see his upside as being a higher ceiling than ROR is known to have? So if we wait for poehling ( and don't get the 1OA) we wait for another winger to hope they can contribute with a center known as TBD.
I am of the opinion that until we start to fix our lack of depth down the middle, doing anything else ( including waiting and hoping) is just spinning our wheels. If we draft BPA and wait by the time they can contribute, we might still have no center depth AND the positions we are currently set on ( goaltending and #1D) will be declining.
That's not an environment to help young kids develop.
That's not to say ROR is a salve, he alone won't make us contenders but he WILL make us better and WILL address long standing systemic deficiencies.
Unless you are similar to some of the hacks in the media (see Grant McCagg) I don’t know how as a Montreal Canadiens fan you can define success as just making the playoffs. Being a bonafide Cup contender is the only way this franchise is successful again.
Winning in April, May, and June is what matters most.