My question is since when has promotion and merit ever gone hand in hand for MT?
I agree here...MT does play favorites with some of HIS players. Which isn't uncommon for any coach in any sport. He has his reasons and unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how you want to see it), he's been successful.
The solution to the 1st line RW will never be Dale Weise. Ever. The solution to the first line RW might be Sekac, you'll never know until you try him there. Sekac might not be producing now, but there was no reason not to give him that promotion the moment PAP went down a while back. That promotion should have never gone to Weise in the first place. You're looking at the promotion from now, the promotion should have occurred a while back.
Amazing revelation here...that's obvious isn't it?
As for Sekac, he's not producing now and he wasn't producing then either. I think you're infatuated with the idea of what Sekac can be, which is fine, but I don't necessarily have an issue with how MT has used him because I don't think he's really shown any consistency offensively, we've seen flashes. But again, 46 shots in 43 games? If you're just going to have a guy skate up and down right wing, might as well put Weise there, he offers more defensively and physically at this point.
Even at that, MT has spoken about giving a player the opportunity to get out of their slumps by putting them in positions to succeed. All I need to do is point back to DD to see how merit and promotion has not gone hand in hand. Why weren't you up in arms when DD was given that promotion he didn't deserve last season when he had 1 point in 19 games?
Who told you I wasn't? lol
Or earlier in the season when he went 48 games without a 5 on 5 goal but still had his position secure. Or when Andrighetto came in and put up 3 points in 3 games and got demoted to the 4th line for doing so. Why does merit and promotion mean so much now when applied to Sekac?
Again...how do you know this? My post history on this topic suggest otherwise, but i'd love to hear you enlighten me on what I was thinking at the time.
When a team struggles to score goals, there is no reason not to try a struggling rookie with clear top 6 talent over a career bottom 6 player with limited offensive talent who isn't even producing well in that top 6 role to begin with
Not sure I agree that Sekac has 'clear top 6 talent'. I've seen flashes this year, but I've also seen a lot of "Jan Bulis" in him too. What kind of player Sekac turns out to be is anyone's guess, nothing anyone has seen so far can determine that for sure either way right now.
It's asinine. Your justification of keeping Weise in the top 6 is ridiculous man, he isn't even producing well in that role and the team struggles to score goals. Slump or not, Sekac should be put there for the simple fact that he has more talent, even more so when the team can't score.
Hmm...I haven't justified keeping Weise in the top 6 at all, matter of fact, I've been saying since Day 1 this year that this team lacks a RW on the top line.
I just think that, right now, he's the best option. 2 weeks from now, maybe that answer is Sekac, I don't know. But today, it's either Weise or Gallagher
As for you not playing favorites, I would agree with you if you didn't continuously trash Plekanec for the better part of 4 years now
I've never trashed Plekanec, I just don't think he's as good as most Habs fans tend to think he is. He's a quality player though, i'm not a fool, I realize how valuable he is to the Habs, but IMO, he's not anymore suited to be the #1 center on this team than Desharnais is.
Neither player is ideal to play that role right now...the best center on this team, currently plays wing.
