I listened to it end to end. Not once did Hughes mention Hutson or how Reinbacher’s role was supposedly contingent on someone else assuming offensive responsibilities. I’ve never heard of a highly selected D not having high end offensive abilities.
Most of it was in French and none of the answers supported your position. Which left the “BS edit” portion of the clip, which it turns out, was the crux of the English part where the player’s offensive profile was addressed.
The answers about handedness had to do with him scoring higher on their evaluation since it’s widely known that RHDs are in shorter supply than LHDs and it also was an organizational deficiency. You’ll notice that Hughes’ rebuttal about “the left D might have cooled us” was in response to a question of whether the Habs had selected on a needs basis instead of the BPA.
You don’t know what Hughes regrets saying but what he said about Reinbacher’s offensive capabilities evoked doubt.
The original clip (which it turns out was not BS and did not include all the irrelevant filler from yours) was meant as a rebuttal to someone who blamed the forum for criticizing Reinbacher’s offence. All I tried to show was that in this particular instance, the GM was doubtful about the player’s offence before others on the forum reiterated it. Nothing more than that.
