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Since McKinnon. They have very comparable stats but an argument can be made that AL has played with lesser talent.
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Since McKinnon. They have very comparable stats but an argument can be made that AL has played with lesser talent.
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Let's hire Louis Leblanc just to have him announce our picks. Things would come full circle then.
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It's a real shame we couldn't get our hands on future HHOFers John Moore, Jordan Schroeder or Tim Erixon on that infamous day.
Oh what could have been...
every pick from the Draft held in Montreal 2009 BUSTED...
they say hindsight is 2020...lol
they say hindsight is 2020...lol
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Imagine the craziness if Montreal gets their hands on Alexis Lafreniere.
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How do I change that
It just got announced , I was kidding , forgot the.
Never know lol They probably won’t be released soon but someone who has attended one probably knows around what date they’ll go on sale.
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Habs should invite former Hab Mike Busto to the draft...
Jun 30, 2009 - Montreal also sent the Rangers 2007 first-round draft pick Ryan ... Janik to New York while the Rangers gave up Tom Pyatt and Mike Busto.
Jun 30, 2009 - Montreal also sent the Rangers 2007 first-round draft pick Ryan ... Janik to New York while the Rangers gave up Tom Pyatt and Mike Busto.
With this announcement, the potential of taking a run at the top French Canadian prospect since Lecavalier, our roster and cap situation & the current NHL landscape, I'd be all for MB & co. focusing the next 3-4 weeks on acquiring as many 2020 1st rounders as possible...
Vegas, Calgary, EDM, Philly, Vancouver, Chicago and any other teams with cap issues and/or "improve now" mandates that may be willing to part with 2020 firsts.
Drouin, Shaw, Byron, Petry, Tatar, our 2019 1st & our cap space are all assets we could leverage to beef up shots at AL...
Perfect cover/excuse to more aggressively "re-tool".
Best case... We get a few more 1sts, we flame out this year so that we get a wack of lottery balls with our own pick, MB gets canned well before the draft & we hire an exceptional GM candidate who gets to rebuild with an wealth of pick/prospect/young talent... Including the next great Franco star.
One can dream!
Vegas, Calgary, EDM, Philly, Vancouver, Chicago and any other teams with cap issues and/or "improve now" mandates that may be willing to part with 2020 firsts.
Drouin, Shaw, Byron, Petry, Tatar, our 2019 1st & our cap space are all assets we could leverage to beef up shots at AL...
Perfect cover/excuse to more aggressively "re-tool".
Best case... We get a few more 1sts, we flame out this year so that we get a wack of lottery balls with our own pick, MB gets canned well before the draft & we hire an exceptional GM candidate who gets to rebuild with an wealth of pick/prospect/young talent... Including the next great Franco star.
One can dream!
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TRADE THE WHOLE TEAM FOR 2020 1ST ROUND PICKS!!!
But in all seriousness, I have a feeling Ottawa will pick the hometown boy in front of thousands of habs fan, this one gonna sting...
Good for Lafreniere though to go 1st overall in front of family and friends.
But in all seriousness, I have a feeling Ottawa will pick the hometown boy in front of thousands of habs fan, this one gonna sting...
Good for Lafreniere though to go 1st overall in front of family and friends.
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Timmins didn't want to pick Leblanc if I remember correctly he was in love with Carlson and the selection was a direct manipulation by the management team.
That's not very patriotic
. What if they're the BPA? You would pass on a good prospect cause he's from Québec? Shame!
Unfortuntely local favoritism also exists in our current management (as seen by the Drouin trade).
That's not very patriotic
What if they're the BPA? You would pass on a good prospect cause he's from Québec? Shame!
Hey as long as the Q player isn't off the board and is truly the BPA available it's not a problem. But judging who the BPA is after the top 5-10 is really not easy.
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He certainly wasn't but people are acting like the Habs reached for some guy ranked 100th on draft lists.
He was ranked 12th overall by ISS and 13th among North American Skaters by the Central Scouting. He went 16th.
https://thehockeywriters.com/23-–-the-hockey-spy’s-2009-nhl-entry-draft-rankings/https://thehockeywriters.com/23-–-the-hockey-spy’s-2009-nhl-entry-draft-rankings/
It's just so easy to be an after-the-fact expert.
Also, it seems like Quebec players/coaches are held to a different standard throughout the league. If the Leafs or Sens had drafted an Ontario kid who turned out to be a bad pick, you wouldn't hear as many people saying that he was drafted for the sole reason that he's a local boy.
hum .... don't want to be rude but this is such a naive post .Do you really think that he would have said that he didn't want to live in a french city/province where people speak an alien language ? a province full of mighty dangerous separatists ?
That's true, however one shouldn't favour OR disqualify a player based on his origins.
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