Haven't seen this discussed yet..
According to Bob McKenzie on the '03 look back special on TSN.
This is the first I've heard of this.
According to Bob McKenzie on the '03 look back special on TSN.
This is the first I've heard of this.
Bob really knew his talent didn't he?
Price is under the Gainey Curse.
Pretty unfair to single out Gainey when virtually everyone thought of Fleury as a franchise goalie.
It would be like the Habs trading up this year to draft MacKinnon or Jones, only to see them bust (not that Fleury's a bust, but you get what I mean). Some things you can't predict.
Fleury was very hyped up at that point. He was looked upon as a franchise goalie almost unanimously.
The only thing I find interesting about this is that Theodore was only 1 year removed from his hart trophy season. Granted, he followed it up with a poor season, but I don't think people were too worried about theodore at that point in time.
Do we know if Gainey was even serious, or was he just going through the obligatory tire kicking process?
Pretty sure they make a trade to make sure they draft Benoit Pouliot in 2005.And assuming our record and future draft positions remained the same (doubtful but for the sake of argument) we almost certainly would have drafted Marc Staal in '05 instead of Price.
So...M. Staal & Fleury or A. Kostitsyn & Price?
Let's take it a step further and imagine we would have had to give both our 2nds that year to get #1 overall...it would be more like M. Staal & Fleury vs. A. Kostitsyn, Urquhart, Lapierre and Price.
After Fleury and Price is why i don't like taking goalies high in draft.
But Price is a franchise goalie.
But Price is a franchise goalie.
All discussions end in Price hateI love how this turned into a Price thread. Because we don't have enough of those.
The only Franchise goalie that I can remember in the last 20 years is Martin Brodeur.