What happened to Mike McCarron? After a very promising 1st AHL season he totally regressed because of the AHL coaches namely Sylvain Lefebvre. So many young players regressed under that group of idiot coaches.
Not to mention as soon as he was going, Montreal would call him up. And Therrien was a coach who would bench you if you made mistakes. So McCarron was not developed properly.
I'll never understand the "he wanted Glass and got lucky with Suzuki". If he still valued Suzuki enough to make the trade, that's all that matters. It would be like saying Tampa deserves zero credit for drafting Kucherov since they took Namestnikov before and Koekkoek over Vasi.
Granted MB still sucked and I'm so relieved he's gone, but he definitely deserves the credit for that trade.
Exactly. Maybe he asked for Glass first and was told no and offered Suzuki instead. He still made the deal. If he was dead set on Glass, then he would have turned down Suzuki.
And by the way, at the time of the trade, Glass was putting up similar numbers in the WHL that Suzuki was putting up in the OHL. He wasn't asking for injury-prone Glass, but full-of-promise, 6th OA Glass.