Timmins is the scout who had a big help from previous scout when the Habs had a bunch of core players drfated by the Habs with a previous scout (Koivu, Pleks, Markov, Theodore, etc). He took place and missed a lot of excellent players in his first 5 years (Carter, Parisé, Perry, Getzlaf, Seabrook, Bergeron), then he got some hits (Price, Subban, Paccioretty, Gallagher) and then he got a slump of another 7 years before getting some hits or probable hits ( Romanov, KK, Caufield, Fleury, Norlinder) in the last 3 years. But the fact is, the core of the team is only two players (Price, Gallagher), the rest of the core, players a team count on to win games are all trades or ufas. That explains because the team had a very low incoming from his farm team, the dgs had to trade all the time and sign some Metropolit or Weal to fill patches. They had no choice because some players s*cks. Ben Maxwell, Cory Urquart, David Fisher, Mike McCarron, Nikita Sherback, any GM or Coach would give nhl 17 minutes a game to any of those players? Patches on the first, the second, the third and the fourth line, same from 1rst to 7th spot on defence for about 15 years because of low incoming of quality players drafted. Few players on the third and fourth line doesn't count really, Lehkonen and Evans are nothing to bring the chairs for the parade, they are just okay for nhl no more no less.
