montreal
Go Habs Go
I've said it a million times or so it feels like so I'll likely say it a million more but my opinion has been that ALL involved share the blame in why for those 6 years we couldn't develop young players. Everyone of them was rushed to the NHL at 19/20 outside of Scherbak who missed over a year of development time to injury and was handled likely the worst i've ever seen for a 1st round skilled prospect. We all saw the MT shuffle, Beaulieu or whoever gets called up, put on the bottom pairing/line, makes costly mistake, ends up in the press box for days on end, gets sent back to the AHL, struggles in the AHL.
Timmins admitted making mistakes in the past, the hope is that he's learned from them and in the very early stages there are at least good signs from the '16-'18 drafts, which also had some of the most and highest picks unlike the bad years of '08-'15 which saw the least amount of picks and least amount of top 70ish picks aside from some generally poor overall draft classes.
The players themselves have their share of blame for not improving in the areas that they needed to improve. There's lots of blame to go and we can beat a dead horse over who's more at fault but it won't change anything. The hope is that management finally woke up and smelled the roses, saw that there was a big problem and finally made changes to the development system. Next season is going to be a huge test for them, to see if they revert to old ways and rush 20 year olds to the NHL or do they let them get time in the AHL to adjust and NOT to call them up before they show they are ready even if it means we don't win games/make the playoffs. Do what's best for our future, not try to get a few more points that in the end won't do much for us in terms of the big picture.
Timmins admitted making mistakes in the past, the hope is that he's learned from them and in the very early stages there are at least good signs from the '16-'18 drafts, which also had some of the most and highest picks unlike the bad years of '08-'15 which saw the least amount of picks and least amount of top 70ish picks aside from some generally poor overall draft classes.
The players themselves have their share of blame for not improving in the areas that they needed to improve. There's lots of blame to go and we can beat a dead horse over who's more at fault but it won't change anything. The hope is that management finally woke up and smelled the roses, saw that there was a big problem and finally made changes to the development system. Next season is going to be a huge test for them, to see if they revert to old ways and rush 20 year olds to the NHL or do they let them get time in the AHL to adjust and NOT to call them up before they show they are ready even if it means we don't win games/make the playoffs. Do what's best for our future, not try to get a few more points that in the end won't do much for us in terms of the big picture.
