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- Oct 31, 2011
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The quote from the above post, is worth reprising:
“I’d say in the last few years I gravitated more to the amateur side of things and did a lot of amateur scouting and a lot of work with Shane Churla and Trevor Timmins,” Dudley said in a conference call. “The pro side there has Eric Crawford and Scott Mellanby and a couple of other people, and they did the heavy lifting on the pro side for the most part. I did some; when there was a specific need for a report Berg would ask me to look at a player and I would do that.
“But for the most part, I’m extremely proud of the work that’s been done on the amateur side in Montreal and I’m proud to say I was a part of that. I think in the last couple of drafts, I think you’ll see in the next couple of years that they’ve added several players that are going to help them, help them a lot.”
This is the most telling quote and one that assigns the sources of responsibility for all the pro player procurement gaffes of the last 2-3 years. The fact that those who made recommendations about Alzner, Ott, King, Martinsen, Streit, etc. were allowed to continue with the organization, is the most disturbing aspect. We now know for a fact that these decisions belonged mostly to Crawford and Mellanby, with some participation by Dudley. While Dudley is minimizing his role on the pro scouting side, it's equally disturbing that if he had any sense of how awry the Habs' pro intel was, that Bergevin only deemed it necessary that he intervene only on those pro players he was specifically instructed by Bergevin to look into.
This organization is in shambles, it committed a ton of blunders and yet there doesn't seem to have been any rapid response by management to stop the bleeding. Instead of that, the same people who advised Bergevin continued to pile on useless advice that led up to the Alzner signing.
The pro scouting side is now the biggest boat anchor -- Crawford and Mellanby need to be brought to account otherwise, Dudley's departure will have been too easy, too little and too late.
who is the " couple of other people"