No matter when he was picked the narrative was always gonna be he did something wrong and didn't pay for it at all. Guess all it took was a GM. with balls and the understanding that he was getting possible a top 15 pick in the 31st spot was a now brainer. Now because the Habs did we/he even gets more hate. As a Hab fan ,i love it.
McKenzie literally had him ranked 35th in his final ranking.
And loving that your team is getting hate over picking a player who just got in trouble,
who didn't want to be picked, is just weird. Bergervin did a disservice to the organization for picking a kid in that kind of trouble in the wake of the Blackhawks scandal, he did a disservice to the kid for picking him against his own wishes, and he did a disservice to the girl for pouring lighter fluid on a smoldering story.
And if you don't believe that, why did Montreal wait to release a statement on the pick until an hour before Free Agency opened, when they knew the story would get buried?
Ya imagine a 25th and 31st pick could become good .What a thought.
Nobody contested, "Good". "Insane", was where the laugh was had.