different people will have different definition of bust. Like we all can agree David Fischer is a bust because he did nothing. Guys like Beaulieu, Tinordi, Galchenyuk, imo are disappointments not busts. Beaulieu has 391 NHL games under his belt, clearly no one should be happy when a 17th OA pick yields a couple decent seasons and turns into a 3rd round pick. You expect a lot more then a 7th D which is what he appears to have become (I haven't seen him since he left) but while I never was high on him and took a lot of shit from posters especially when he was in Hamilton, for a guy with a 10 cent head to stick for almost 400 NHL games is something.
But to me as someone that clearly puts a lot of stock in coaching and development, I look at Beaulieu in a similar vein to that of Galchenyuk. These were young prospects that we rushed to the NHL when they clearly had issues defensively, IQ. Both were progressing in terms of production, Beaulieu went from 9 pts to 19 to 28. I look at it as in the right situation, the right coach, the right D partner, he had the skating and enough skill to be more then a 7th D, maybe he tops out as a 5th D but that would at least have looked better had that been the case.
At the end of the day though it matters little who calls who a bust or a disappointment. Clearly things went very badly for us as an organization under MB, the development, the drafting, coaching, lots of places to point the blame at and so far the only ones held accountable were MT and Lefebvre as the rest either kept their job or were promoted.
