Drafting well and drafting lucky -- those are the keys to building a contender. I agree that as we currently stand I have little hope of making noise in the playoffs... on the longshot guess that we get there. So it makes sense to increase the odds of getting lucky by finishing lower and getting better picks. But beyond selling off Plekanec and offering one or two of the older vets for picks, you can't (and shouldn't) shove a team lower. You can only allow it to sink to its natural water level. We're already playing rookies Hudon and Mete, and youngish less-experienced de la Rose, Morrow, Froese, Deslauriers, and Carr. On paper, it resembles a roster built for tanking. If the Habs are really a bottom-five team, they'll get there without further choreography. If they make the playoffs with this many raw players, it means the team is better than we thought.I don’t want them to make the playoffs and I won’t enjoy it. I don’t dislike the Habs. I just want a bleeping Cup man. I’ve had enough of this just make the playoffs crap. I’ve enjoyed the playoffs enough now. I actually want us to have a hope to win it. We all know this team won’t do anything when they get there. We don’t have enough scoring. So why in the world would we want to make the playoffs and reduce our draft position which is to the detriment of our entire future? The ONLY way we solve this is through the draft. Bergevin has said it himself. How do you do that if you continually make the playoffs and get bounced early? It’s the worst possible place you can be. That’s why I don’t want them to make the playoffs. I want to get to the Cup SOONER by getting high draft picks now. Otherwise we’re wasting time postponing the inevitable. We either do it now or when we finally realize it’s the only way.
EDIT: I just looked at the standings. Habs are two points behind Boston who’s played three fewer games. That’s possibly an 8 point gap in December. We have 7 road games coming up when we rarely win outside of our division and then face San Jose and Tampa. I really have no clue why you want this team to try to make the playoffs. They’re bottom 7 in the league right now. Did you really enjoy our spanking from the Rangers? Get real.
Either way, we're not getting Dahlin. Best case is we add another good pick and draft well.