Grant McCagg's Draft Review

[Scott Malkinson]

Montreal had a good draft.

Not A+ good but they did well.

Grant is a degenerate.

 

[Lonewolfe2015]

Whats the issue? The habs had a great draft.

Didn't everyone say this after 2012 and 2013? There's been enough time to finally render an evaluation on those...

 

[NotProkofievian]

Didn't everyone say this after 2012 and 2013? There's been enough time to finally render an evaluation on those...

Still triggered about passing on Buchnevich a billion times.

 

[Kobe Armstrong]

Recrutes is done after this year so nobody will have to complain about it any longer, honestly Brian Wilde annoys me more than McCagg. Not because he's a worse person, he's clearly nicer and more friendly, but he is the true Habs apologist. He acts like he's critical but always caves to McCagg in the end. Grant is more of a troll trying to get clicks, Wilde seems like he's always trying to find a smart way to make the Habs look better so that LeBrun or one of his friends can get him a job with The Athletic.

FWIW, McCagg does have insider sources with the Habs (sometimes), so he is usually worth a follow around draft time. He was the first guy to call Kotkaniemi for the Habs (months in advance), so it makes sense why he's gloating about their draft class.

I'll find the link, but in 2017 he guessed all but one of our picks correctly I believe, even hitting on more obscure prospects like Walford and Primeau in the later rounds. It was quite impressive, almost like Timmins gave him his list...

 

[Spirit of 67]

Grant McCagg is my favourite fictional author.

 

[WeThreeKings]

When was the last time a team drafted 4-5 really good NHLers in a single draft? Ever?

Habs took Pacioretty McDonagh Subban and Yannick Weber in the same draft.

 

[biotk]

Habs took Pacioretty McDonagh Subban and Yannick Weber in the same draft.

Weber is not a really good NHLer. He is a below average NHLer.

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

Anyway, I admire these guys who have a hobby that they are passionate about and then actually make the effort to take that to the next level as a business enterprise. There are others around here who did that too of course, getting into "the business", making their passion into a product that they can offer to the prospects community. Kudos to them all, and thanks for the efforts!

 

[David Suzuki]

He gave like 4 teams an a+ lol.

 

[Duke Silver]

Anyway, I admire these guys who have a hobby that they are passionate about and then actually make the effort to take that to the next level as a business enterprise. There are others around here who did that too of course, getting into "the business", making their passion into a product that they can offer to the prospects community. Kudos to them all, and thanks for the efforts!

He kind of shoots himself in the foot with his blatantly-biased takes, though. He's a laughing stock. Zero objectivity.

 

[Thebesthockey]

any drafted player looks good on the pathetic habs

 

[NHL]

Weber is not a really good NHLer. He is a below average NHLer.

Maybe but drafting a defenseman that plays 400 games before 30 y/o in a third round is pretty good IMO

 

[A55P2]

Maybe but drafting a defenseman that plays 400 games before 30 y/o in a third round is pretty good IMO

Cancel that comment... Thought it was the other Weber, my bad.

 

[biotk]

Maybe but drafting a defenseman that plays 400 games before 30 y/o in a third round is pretty good IMO

Of course it is - but that is not related at all related to the initial claim I was responding to.

 

[NobleSix]

I have zero respect for Grant because of the hissy fits he's thrown on HFHabs, some out to lunch rankings and obsessions, and (more recently) Twitter, but the Habs did have a really good draft.

 

[WeThreeKings]

any drafted player looks good on the pathetic habs

How does this make sense? If they looked good wouldn't the Habs be good?

 

[Hammer Slammer]

I have zero respect for Grant because of the hissy fits he's thrown on HFHabs, some out to lunch rankings and obsessions, and (more recently) Twitter, but the Habs did have a really good draft.

He threw a hissy fit at me after I stopped posting video to his site and left, saying I stabbed him in the back and stuff. Dude is weird. I was doing it for free.

 

[MXD]

How does this make sense? If they looked good wouldn't the Habs be good?

You just quoted the dullest pencil in the box of dull pencils, I don't know why you're expecting sense to be made.

 

[NotProkofievian]

He threw a hissy fit at me after I stopped posting video to his site and left, saying I stabbed him in the back and stuff. Dude is weird. I was doing it for free.

Oh shit, that was you? Hfhabs heard about it. Yeah don't worry about that, your site is wayyyyy better.

 

[F127]

I have no problem with Montreal’s draft being ranked high if its being done under fair assessment. Grant’s rankings are fed to him mainly by Montreal scouts so the majority of the guys they are high on get drafted earlier than most teams would take these guys. Check out Grant’s take on Montreal’s draft last year, they knocked it out of the park and probably the year before.
He also spent a year+ hyping Tavares to the Habs so he could increase hits to his website and sell product.

 

[QJL]

Habs had a great draft outside of Kotkaniemi at 3.

 

[Price is Wright]

When was the last time a team drafted 4-5 really good NHLers in a single draft? Ever?

Lots of teams have had drafts where they found three, but four is very rare. So far only found:

Habs in 84: Svoboda, Corson, Richer, Roy
Habs in 87: Cassels, Leclair, Desjardins, Schneider
Red Wings in 89: Sillinger, Lidstrom, Fedorov, Drake, Konstantinov

"Really Good" is debatable but I always thought the Leafs 2006 draft was good: Tlusty, Kulemin, Reimer, Stalberg, and Komarov. Five NHLers to have played 300 games in a single draft and none of them were inflated goons.

 

[Lebowski]

I have zero respect for Grant because of the hissy fits he's thrown on HFHabs, some out to lunch rankings and obsessions, and (more recently) Twitter, but the Habs did have a really good draft.

Every single team in the NHL thinks it made the best possible picks at their selections a month after the draft... People only say a given team had a great draft based on the consensus rankings and notable fallers according to those lists.

Last time we had a great draft was 2012. See how that turned out.

 

[Cheddabombs]

I remember when the Habs had an A+ draft in 2012

That turned out well.

 

[ImNeverWrong]

I remember when the Habs had an A+ draft in 2012

That turned out well.

It was a weak draft, but yah habs suck at drafting and developing (see galchenyuk). Apologists like McCagg think the habs are amazing at the draft. hah. joke.