Hey, has TT been so good we should never question his picks? Just point out that other teams passed on the same guys, blah blah. Compare picks to better drafting teams & see what it was that they saw that you didn't. When he has done this job for so long the expectation would be that he has refined his criteria & processes to select & rank players more accurately than he used to at the beginning of his tenure. Do I think that is happening? Not convinced. DLR-4th liner, Lek-3rd liner. Always thought TT had a great eye for 3rd & 4th liners. There, see, pat him on the back-great job. Sometime dumb luck plays a factor. I just think sometime change is good, and that maybe someone else would see some different intangibles that would make for a better selection. Why not move TT to player development, so that he can correct what is perceived as poorly developed prospects. Basically saying drafting is a guessing game doesn't absolve him from responsibility for failed picks.
Final two words: Connor Crisp
nobody gets a free pass. But for me I have blamed the development side more then the scouting side since Timmins has shown in the past he can find talent like Subban, Price, McDonagh, Pac, Halak, Grabo, Kostitsyn's, etc....
That said he's made his share of mistakes. Collberg, Fischer, trading up for Tinordi, Crisp, Maxwell, etc... Every scout is going to have a long list of misses, when you look at the stats on players picked outside the top 10/20/30 the numbers take a nose dive. That said he needs to do a better job, the Habs need to do a better job developing talent and stop calling up players at 19/20 when they aren't ready.
Timmins said today that they made changes after the '13 draft when they went for size (which was the 1st draft Churla was here) if you look at the drafts since then, there are clearly some interesting picks outside the 1st round like Mete, Evans, Primeau, Addison, Vejdemo, Hawkey, etc..
That said since the '13 draft to the '16 draft the Habs have picked 3 times inside the top 70. That's f***ing brutal for 3 years of drafting. Now they did get Sergachev, Scherbak and Juulsen from those 3 picks but it's very hard to build your farm system when you have 3 picks in 3 years inside the top 70. Last draft we had 4 picks in the top 70, just goes to show that in 1 year we had more picks then over 3 drafts. Blame MB for wasting picks there.
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