Habs Fans Reactions to Drafting David Reinbacher

[Rob]

I think Hab fans are just demoralized after the past couple of years. They wanted something to be excited about. Michkov was it. So while they go through another season out of the playoffs they would have this overrated prospect to look forward to.

 

[Weztex]

Sure, but when you read those mock drafts, they were largely qualified by saying it's probably a reach of a pick because team's value the position more than anything.

Here’s the post I was replying to again :

And nobody thought he was going 6th lol

It doesn’t matter the reasoning behind it, more than half the mocks thought he was going 5-6. Moreover, the vast majority had him as the best d-man in the draft. So if your think that the team will indeed value the position, that hardly makes it a reach.

 

[Hockeyholic]

Would be great if he asked out. Gets traded and wins two Norris trophies somewhere else.

 

[TopShelfWaterBottle]

She looks looney

 

[Thirty Seven]

Send him to Boston then

 

[leopod]

nice move

 

[MikeyMike01]

The bar for “hate” is really low these days

 

[Kent Nilsson]

nice move

Give this girl a job in habs PR

 

[I Hart Conor Garland]

In that scenario, I’m sure there’s a noticeable difference.

People in here are fan enough to post on a forum dedicated to hockey. People who thrashed the pick (and the player) are a lot more likely to be casual fans who never heard of the guy before and knew Mitchkov’s name because of mainstream medias. You’ll likely find a lot more of those on Twitter and Facebook.

I gotta think the Venn diagram between people posting here and people harassing Reinbacher is a lot more overlappy than you'd be comfortable seeing. Admittedly, I cannot prove shit all. But we aren't somewhere where that even matters.

 

[Weztex]

I gotta think the Venn diagram between people posting here and people harassing Reinbacher is a lot more overlappy than you'd be comfortable seeing. Admittedly, I cannot prove shit all. But we aren't somewhere where that even matters.

It’s unfortunately inevitable that some of them post here (or at least have accounts). But as a guy living in Quebec who gets to read hundreds of comments about the Habs on social medias every day (even in mid-August) you rapidly get a general profile of extreme haters and people who go too far. I can assure you the enormous majority of them don’t display a level of hockey interest/understanding deep enough to roam around these parts. Nor the level of literacy we generally encounter on here.

But yeah. There’s a few poster I’d fully expect to find in that overlapping space.

 

[Rubi]

It used to be that if you were really stupid you didn't live long enough to disperse your gene pool. Apparently not anymore.

 

[tucker3434]

Trashing players directly is a great way to out yourself as a worthless member of society. Your priorities have to be so far out of whack to do something like that.

 

[MK9]

I haven’t seen any evidence of this but there’s always going to be a few mentally unstable nutjobs in large groups of people.

"A few". Yeah. Not many though.

Nice way to try and downplay it.

 

[Frank Drebin]

"A few". Yeah. Not many though.

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Nice way to try and downplay it.

Damn I bet he wished he saw this evidence before he said anything.

That picture, with the highlighted word, is damning.

 

[CalgarySnow]

I’m embarrassed to be a Habs fan with this, it wasn’t his fault he was our pick, he’s an 18 year old kid, how would you feel if it was your kid getting shit thrown at him? Grow up you Habs fans that did this, don’t be a keyboard warrior slinging shit

 

[Icebreakers]

What MTL fans don't realize is that they could indirectly impact his development or desire to stay in Montreal past his RFA years. It's a lose/lose situation.

 

[DudeWhereIsMakar]

Should've traded the 5th overall pick++ for Dubois.

 

[Bring Bak Damphousse]

It is so amazing how people who have seen maybe a few games of 2 prospects (and in most cases 0, just a few highlights or reports) can have such strong opinions on who their team should have drafted.

I think the people who don’t watch prospects get psyched up by the few who do, than they start to pump up the people who know even less, until it becomes self perpetuating and everyone has been convinced that Brady Tkachuk’s ceiling is the third line. Or that Wright is the right pick even though the consensus first overall throughout the entire year got passed over by 3 teams, and isn’t even the first center taken.

 

[Frank Drebin]

I’m embarrassed to be a Habs fan with this, it wasn’t his fault he was our pick, he’s an 18 year old kid, how would you feel if it was your kid getting shit thrown at him? Grow up you Habs fans that did this, don’t be a keyboard warrior slinging shit

Why are you embarrassed by something you didn't do by people you don't know?

 

[MXD]

"A few". Yeah. Not many though.

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Nice way to try and downplay it.

It only takes a few mentally unstable people to send a thousands of hate messages.

Also, knowing the landscape, I'd suggest that more than quite a few of these messages didn't even come from Habs fans, but from Habs haters.

 

[CalgarySnow]

Why are you embarrassed by something you didn't do by people you don't know?

Because they represent us

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

"A few". Yeah. Not many though.

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Nice way to try and downplay it.

Well if the made up picture with arrows pointed at it says so than I guess thousands it is!!

 

[Frank Drebin]

Because they represent us

They do?

 

[Sabresruletheschool]

Same type of people that get on the internet and claim how morally superior they are. Im sure they spend half their day calling everyone a racist and facist on Facebook.This is who they are in real life.

 

[Bombshell11]

"A few". Yeah. Not many though.

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Nice way to try and downplay it.

What was said?