who in the hell trades reiley for poehling straight up ?
lets you forget " trades are hard", but Ryan oreiley on this team is the best center immediately by an order of magnitude. And its not a stereotype, it's the game plan. there isnt another team in the league that would trade their best D prospect for an undersized onedimentional complimentary winger with the hopes of making him a center because of the language he speaks. none.
Yeah I should just take your word for it that people liked trading our only trade bait prospect for a player who addressed absolutely zero needs.
Or I can go with what really happened. I choose the latter.
If you can't stand your ridiculous assertions being challenged, you might want to reconsider this whole message board deal.
At least drouin speaks french, amirite?
oooooh pooor you. but forth bad ideas and lies and then take offense when people point it out.
You still havent answered if we keep poehling and dont get a real 1C, who mentors him ? Drouin ?
Danault ? Shawsie ?
or we take a young kid tell him hes our only hope and then watch the pressure of montreal grind him to dust.
and he doesnt speak french to save him either as far as I know. quelle domage !
but if he spoke french.............
so we roll for another 3 years with no 1C or 2C ? I can't imagine how that ends up, its a complete mystery. it could be anything ? it could even be a boat !
Multiple posts from you in this thread are obvious attempts at seeking some kind of retribution against the way the Habs are managed. I'm a Habs fan, I don't like the way they are run either. However, not everything they do has a language component behind it. If it does in respect of player procurement, then they are a lesser team for it and belong right where they are now. I'm not so sure you can keep harping on Drouin as proof of this type of symptom.
To me, it's more a matter of incompetent management. They've created a hole on first pairing LHD by trading their only blue chip prospect in exchange for a forward who is not a center, but who they've desperately and illogically tried to play at center, which predictably, has been a total failure -- and has left them with two glaring holes in their lineup. It has nothing to do with the language Drouin speaks. It has everything to do with a management contingent that has completely derailed and is ripe for the picking this summer.
Look at all the management moves made in the last year. King, Martinsen, Ott, Benn, using an expansion draft slot on Benn, Schlemko, Alzner (lol), Streit, Hemsky, under-evaluating Andrighetto, playing hardball with Markov and Radulov, ending up with a ton cap space to start the season and never using it, gutting the whole left side of their D last summer and replacing it by worse alternatives and gifting a useless long term deal to Alzner, a defensive D with limited mobility and having a ton of mileage and who at best is a third pairing D. None of these decisions have anything remotely to do with language.
Drouin evidently will never be at his best playing a position that he's not suited for. The fact that he is a diminutive player is irrelevant when you see how many teams are doing well favoring fast but talented players. Size only matters if a player can skate. McCarron is a prime example and may never be better than a 4th liner.
If you want to pursue a language discussion, may I suggest the political forums or the Habs forum? If you feel strongly that language is such an overwhelming factor as it appears in 4 of your posts in this thread, what does it have to do with ROR? How about we get back to talking about ROR and leaving the language debate where it belongs?
