Can't wait for the "We are not men! We are BIBEAU!!!" references.
Seriously though...his numbers don't look all that great in the minors. This is supposed to be the AHL starter...?
Totally understand why Meloche was dealt, but this now renders the 2015 draft class (apart from that Finnish kid who remains unsigned) a bust. And as I have said, 2016 ain't lookin' that good either. Hepple had better have hit some ground-rule doubles in the last 2-3 draft because his first two are not looking good at all.
Oh, the Avs' drafting is a complete disgrace. Kind of mind blowing to me that there have not been serious changes. It's been a decade of utterly raging incompetence since that '09 draft (not that it was outstanding before that either...). Their non-top 10 1st rounders since '09 have been Siemens, Bleackley, Kaut, and Newhook, so they better hope the latter two turn out since the first two spectacularly busted. And their 2nd rounders have been Pickard, Heard, Bigras, Greer, Meloche, Morrison, Timmins, and Helleson...so again, they better hope to hell the latter two turn out, since there's a bunch of busts amongst the rest there. That's not even looking around rounds 3-7 where you'd have hoped they'd have found a
few guys over the last 10 years.