Whitesnake
If you rebuild, they will come.
- Jan 5, 2003
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3 things really quick: a) defenceman; b) in season not start of season, post-training camp when there are always extra players; c) your conclusion has become your assumption. The last is is the worst.
Do you really think that MB--forget that, any GM in the NHL who loses a player via waivers or free agency--never once attempted to package that player in some kind of trade? Really? That is what you and Montreal are writing implicitly every single time and that is pure fan fiction, pure fan wish fulfillment, pure fan confirmation bias.
Last, I never said a thing about Lefebvre's player turn over. What I did say is that in 3 drafts, totalling 21 draft choices, Timmins failed to restock so much as an ECHL team let alone a viable prospect pool in the AHL.
So I shouldn't think that MB mismanaged his assets and yet you have no problem bashing Timmins as if he's the worst ever. Which brings that question....do you really think that Bergevin forget that Timmins is his head scout and if he'd be that terrible he'd fire him? How is it that we shouldn't question Bergevin but you can? How come our questions are fan fictions and yours aren't? I have no idea why you keep bringing these 3 drafts and 21 draft choices. Lefebvre still put his hands on 11 of them. BUt somehow, your fan fiction has already determined that them sucking solely means it's all on Timmins.
What you do say is that Timmins failed to restock a prospect pool. And while I'm now in favour of letting him go, I say that this is your way of fan fictioning. Development is just so much more complicated than that.
And by the way, if you think that teams have more patience for d-men...fine....as if centermen are easy to find.
I have no idea why you keep fighting this. This is what separates a Great GM to a guy that will be fired tomorrow. Vision. Falling in love with players too much. Not anticipating things. And the proof that it's not fan fiction, is that in pro reality, it happens! Fan fiction would most definately be to trade a guy like Taylor Hall for Adam Larsson. As if that could really happen right? Anybody suggesting that would be the king of fiction and yet....it happened. With everything that is happening...I really have on idea how you can still go on with your fan fiction theory. The Chaput that was not good enough to start the year here was not that long ago traded for another player. That's still more than what we got for DLR. Why did Chaput had more credentials than DLR? For me, as ordinairy I could think DLR is.....he's still a 23 year old centerman that has only seen 1 pro team in the NHL. There are plenty of teams that won't have a problem using a draft pick to see if he can get back on track.....or just to see if there was a track to begin with. Not fan fiction. It happens all the time.
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