Prospect Info: Filip Mesar

[junyab]

I'm definitely not asking the habs to bat 1000, only saying that Mesar was a bad pick at the Time and hindsight's got nothing to do with it. He simply didn't have an argument to go ahead of a number of players.

That we picked Hutson is, of course, awesome. But the team should ask themselves why they passed on Hutson for clearly lesser players.

Your comments are as clearly hindsight as you can get. lol

 

[junyab]

Mesar wasn't a bad pick THEN, he may look like a bad pick NOW, but he wasn't in his draft year. Mesar was one of the best skaters in the draft and had elite puckhandling skills. His upside was a Sergei Samsonov type player.

 

[WeThreeKings]

Mesar wasn't a bad pick THEN, he may look like a bad pick NOW, but he wasn't in his draft year. Mesar was one of the best skaters in the draft and had elite puckhandling skills. His upside was a Sergei Samsonov type player.

He was ranked from mid first round to high 2nd round. He went right around where he was anticipated to go.

 

[habsterr]

Mesar wasn't a bad pick THEN, he may look like a bad pick NOW, but he wasn't in his draft year. Mesar was one of the best skaters in the draft and had elite puckhandling skills. His upside was a Sergei Samsonov type player.

Nah it sucked then too, fans wanted Kulich.

 

[WeThreeKings]

Nah it sucked then too, fans wanted Kulich.

Fans wanted a litany of shitty Q prospects across the years. That's not an argument that Mesar was a bad pick.

 

[junyab]

Nah it sucked then too, fans wanted Kulich.

Well that's a glaringly untrue blanket statement.

Now if you said there were many perma-whining HF members who preferred Kulich with the pick, I'd agree.

 

[Leon Lucius Black]

Crazy how we went from striking out on almost every 1st and 2nd rounder from 2008 to 2017 to some people being upset we didn't hit on all 4 picks from the first two rounds in 2022.

On top of that Mesar just turned 21 and only has 25 pro games in North America under his belt, still early to be writing him off.

 

[WeThreeKings]

Crazy how we went from striking out on almost every 1st and 2nd rounder from 2008 to 2017 to some people being upset we didn't hit on all 4 picks from the first two rounds in 2022.

On top of that Mesar just turned 21 and only has 25 pro games in North America under his belt, still early to be writing him off.

I look forward to the day we win the cup and I get to see that niche group complain we didn't do it in fewer games.

 

[GrandBison]

Mesar wasn't a bad pick THEN, he may look like a bad pick NOW, but he wasn't in his draft year. Mesar was one of the best skaters in the draft and had elite puckhandling skills. His upside was a Sergei Samsonov type player.

Samsonov the rookie or the UFA signed by the Habs?