HF Habs: The official 2023-2024 tank thread

[CHwest]

This season failed tank......

 

[austin316]

We are the Raiders of the NHL

Pain

 

[Playmaker09]

We are the Raiders of the NHL

Pain

As a fan of both, ouch.

 

[DJBREADMAN]

I'm all for going for it now, I won't watch another season of tanking, won't watch a single game knowing that this new group draft like a bunch of assholes. No different than the old group. It's pointless to tank and waste the picks, might as well sign some guys on July 1st and start trying to go for the playoffs.

 

[Playmaker09]

We need to trade Matheson and Anderson for a haul ASAP. Harris, Mesar, Farrell should be trade chips as well.

Would love to target Wallstedt or Askarov with some of those assets, in addition to making us worse right now so we can hopefully luck out and draft a star forward.

 

[austin316]

As a fan of both, ouch.

Me too, I feel your pain friend

 

[the]

I expected a 3rd tanking season (top 10 pick) so I'm all good with this thread.

Since the beginning I've said it will take between 5-7 years before we become competitive thanks to Bergevin.

Year 3 would give us a better indication on how long the rebuild would take.

We definitely need more quality prospects. This will take awhile and it's fine. No shortcuts needed.

 

[Harry Kakalovich]

Like it or not they will be a last place team again next year is my prediction.

 

[Habitant#1]

I expected a 3rd tanking season (top 10 pick) so I'm all good with this thread.

Since the beginning I've said it will take between 5-7 years before we become competitive thanks to Bergevin.

Year 3 would give us a better indication on how long the rebuild would take.

We definitely need more quality prospects. This will take awhile and it's fine. No shortcuts needed.

I don't think a top-10 pick is enough to put this team into contention

They will need a top 3 talent at minimum

 

[SannywithoutCompy]

Basically if we don't get a Celebrini/Eiserman/Demidov (assuming they continue on their current trajectory), we are going to continue spinning our tires for the next decade.

 

[Habs]

I'm not convinced they know how to draft nor do we have the scouts in place to rebuild, need new ownership that doesn't hire his buddies every time.

 

[ottawa]

Add the refusal to commit to actual tanking as well.

Golden opportunity to bottom out and rebuild properly and instead they want:
- 'competitive losing', ensuring we don't get elite talent
- 'accelerated rebuild', ensuring we don't get to horde draft picks

Fantastic...




No but HuGo do.
They're already talking about being more competitive next season.
Doesn't sound like they're committed to drafting high again at all.

Habs will be competitive next season...what do you expect with kids like Suzuki, Caufield, Dach, Slaf, Guhle, Xhejak, etc...they're not the types to just lay down and get run over by other teams because we're rebuilding. This isn't Edmonton.

I fully expect the habs to finish no lower than 10th next year, that's as "competitive" as we'll get but a step in the right direction. If the habs finish bottom 5 again then that'd be alarming.

Man. Ive been wanting for a real rebuild for 30years.

Happy me : 4 first round picks in 2 years….
But no.

After all this pain, we ended with the worst first overall pick since Yakupov. Then we pick a bust with our 2nd first round pick.

The year after? We reach for a 30-40pts defenceman in one of the best draft for offensive players. And we traded our 2nd first rounder for an undersized 3rd line player in Newhook.

Ohhh yeah fefans will say : « Newhook is full of potential. 70pts player incoming » and « Reinbacher is Josi #2 » and « Slafkovsky is Rantanen » and « Mesar is Suzuki lite ». f*** that.

Can we just draft offensive players? We need a PPG forward. Alex Kovalev is the last one. Its been what? 15 years?

Don't really agree with most of your post, that being said...Michkov was such an easy pick and they still found a way to f*** it up.

Only way this board redeems itself is if Reinbacher becomes a clear top pairing defensemen because I feel like we'll regret this one.

 

[WeThreeKings]

Everyone will pick defenseman next year and the Habs will be able to get a very talented forward in the back half of the top 10.

 

[Holystik]

Here's my take.

Hughes is gonna leave the Habs in the next year, maximum 2 years. That's why he picked like a short term moron.

He is playing the numbers game with lesser risk.
I am so disappointed, I can't think of how many times I shook my head in the past few hours...

 

[la25ecoupe]

So who is Top 1 pick next year?

 

[Twisted Sinister]

It's bad when even a tank thread can't cheer me up. Because I know they'll just f*** it up again.

 

[BenchBrawl]

Just fold the team.

The humiliation past 1993 lasted long enough.

Conserve the little dignity this storied franchise has and fold it.

 

[Twisted Sinister]

Like it or not they will be a last place team again next year is my prediction.

Can't wait till they draft a... let's see what's the most useless thing... (checks notes)... Two-way enigmatic European winger next year.

 

[Fuonki]

Man. Ive been wanting for a real rebuild for 30years.

Happy me : 4 first round picks in 2 years….
But no.

After all this pain, we ended with the worst first overall pick since Yakupov. Then we pick a bust with our 2nd first round pick.

The year after? We reach for a 30-40pts defenceman in one of the best draft for offensive players. And we traded our 2nd first rounder for an undersized 3rd line player in Newhook.

Ohhh yeah fefans will say : « Newhook is full of potential. 70pts player incoming » and « Reinbacher is Josi #2 » and « Slafkovsky is Rantanen » and « Mesar is Suzuki lite ». f*** that.

Can we just draft offensive players? We need a PPG forward. Alex Kovalev is the last one. Its been what? 15 years?

The sheer confidence to just casually be able to declare Reinbacher as a bust on draft day is almost enviable

 

[Twisted Sinister]

The sheer confidence to just casually be able to declare Reinbacher as a bust on draft day is almost enviable

He was talking about Mesar.

 

[BarracudaMtl]

I don't think a top-10 pick is enough to put this team into contention

They will need a top 3 talent at minimum

Top 3 ,as we did with KK and Galchenyuk?

 

[AmeriHab]

Top 3 ,as we did with KK and Galchenyuk?

KK was a reach at 3 and 2012 turned out to be a bad draft.

 

[vokiel]

Should be the official 2023-2026 tank thread. This GM won't last half the length of the last one.

 

[slybel]

Bah, we are apparently getting 155 pound Berkly next year....

Pick	Team	Player	Position	Junior league team	HT	WT
1	CHI	Macklin Celebrini	LHC	Canada	5' 11"	181
2	ARI	Cole Eiserman	LW	United States	6' 0"	181
3	SJ	Ivan Demidov	LHC	Russia	5' 11"	168
4	CBJ	Artyom Artem Levshunov	RD	Belarus	6' 1"	180
5	ANA	Aron Kiviharju	LD	Finland	5' 10"	160
6	PHI	Igor Chernyshov	RHLW	Russia	6' 2"	192
7	MON	Berkly Catton	LHC	Canada	5' 11"	155

 

[BenchBrawl]

Even if we tank and get like the 4th overall pick, whoever we'll take isn't even on the drafting radar yet.