azcanuck
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Players initially usually struggle when they come into the league unless they are McDavid. It's part of their growth curve. The truly good ones grow into the players they will be 3-4 years into the process. "ruining a guy rarely happens". Maybe if Alex didnt party so much it would be different. Is that MB's fault?It tells me that the Habs didn't help him in his development years. That's what happens to players when you jerk them around the lineup when they're 18 years old and it's why you're starting to see people getting angry with what's happening with KK.
At this point? Yes, after the season he's had I would take Domi for sure.
You are missing the point (perhaps deliberately.) Bowman tried to make Guy play a certain way. Lafleur was a failure at it. Rather than try to force a square peg in a round hole (the way Therrien did) Bowman eventually let Lafleur just be Lafleur. He paired him with some defensively responsible players and just let him go. That's what we should've done with Galchenyuk but MT was preaching 'da system' and told skilled players to "grind" whatever the **** that means.
It was totally stupid. And MB deserves a ton of blame (maybe all the blame) for letting it go on.
He was a top five scorer in the league when we finally put him as our number one center in 2016. This is a season where we couldn't score to save our lives. After a year of limiting his ice and playing him on the wing, MT finally puts him there and once again he produces. That's a fact. And it had happened before. In 2014 Chuck was put with Max and our team's entire offense improved. Then he inexplicably removed him and put back in Desharnais.... but sure, we handled him just the way we should.
So again, good trade for us (and probably a good trade for Arizona as well because Domi wasn't really producing there either) but MB had a lot of luck here. That doesn't mean I'm not happy with the trade or that it wasn't a good move. Domi in my opinion is at worst a 2A center. I'm more than happy with what he's done and finally feel pretty good about the centers we have coming up.
And since when was ALex a top 5 scorer in this league?