How would you grade the Habs drafting from 2017-2021 ?
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Chili
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I add Xhekaj to that period. He wasn't drafted but in a re-draft he would go where? Probably no lower than the second round. Undrafted players make up about 14% of the league, a lot of teams find NHLers beyond the draft.
Overall, they would be around league average in my opinion, which is a huge improvement from the prior lean years.
Overall, they would be around league average in my opinion, which is a huge improvement from the prior lean years.
Andrei79
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2017 was just a brutal draft by Timmins. I recall the team was high on both Suzuki and Robert Thomas, but in typical Bergevin fashion did nothing to leverage his picks to trade up and grab one of them.
2018 could have been a great draft. Getting Harris and Romanov where they did was excellent. The KK pick really hurts though.
2019 was excellent. Caufield at 15 was a steal. Getting some depth with Struble was nice.
2020 with Guhle is a win already, getting a top pairing defenseman at that spot. Most teams would kill to have a player like that. It's too soon to say though for Dobes and Tuch.
2021 is still too early to say, but I'm not a fan of how Mailloux plays defense. Kapanen is an interesting pick.
2018 could have been a great draft. Getting Harris and Romanov where they did was excellent. The KK pick really hurts though.
2019 was excellent. Caufield at 15 was a steal. Getting some depth with Struble was nice.
2020 with Guhle is a win already, getting a top pairing defenseman at that spot. Most teams would kill to have a player like that. It's too soon to say though for Dobes and Tuch.
2021 is still too early to say, but I'm not a fan of how Mailloux plays defense. Kapanen is an interesting pick.
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Lafleurs Guy
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A little too soon to say.
Kotkaniemi was a miss. Caufield was a steal. There are potential steals there that we'll have to wait and see on.
One thing's for sure though, the players who got to develop under the new regime have done much better than those who were stuck under MB.
Kotkaniemi was a miss. Caufield was a steal. There are potential steals there that we'll have to wait and see on.
One thing's for sure though, the players who got to develop under the new regime have done much better than those who were stuck under MB.
Lafleurs Guy
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One thing people should do when looking at this as well... how did the player do vs where he was drafted.
Poehling for example doesn't seem like a good pick. But he went 25th and is 30th in scoring for his draft class. So he went about where you'd have expected. That's not a bad pick. You can't expect great players when you're drafting 25th.
Poehling for example doesn't seem like a good pick. But he went 25th and is 30th in scoring for his draft class. So he went about where you'd have expected. That's not a bad pick. You can't expect great players when you're drafting 25th.
The draft classes from those years look far better thanks to competent hockey ops leadership that Gorton & KH have curated since 2022...
Had MB extended, odds are those years would've had a similar fate to the five previous ones.
Draft & development go hand in hand and can't easily be assessed independently in hindsight.
Had MB extended, odds are those years would've had a similar fate to the five previous ones.
Draft & development go hand in hand and can't easily be assessed independently in hindsight.
Lafleurs Guy
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I don't agree. I'd rather have Dach than Romanov. Dach's had injuries that have messed things up a bit but going forward would you really rather have Romanov than Dach?
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I think it is better than expected lot of guy close to making the NHL the issue is that we had some pretty big miss or weird gamble that really so it hard to be positive…
BigDaddyLurch
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...I voted Very Bad simply because Marc Bergevin was involved and I never EVER EVER EVER want to hear his ****ing name again as long as I live... 
HuGo Burner Acc
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I'll give a year by year and then an overall. For my criteria, if the team even produces 3 NHL regulars, it automatically recieved a B at the very least:
2017 - C
2018 - B
2019 - B+
2020 - B+
2021 - B
Overall, I'd scale that era at a B. An Average drafting era. Better than the previous era of 2012-2016 which is a C/C- at best
2017 - C
2018 - B
2019 - B+
2020 - B+
2021 - B
Overall, I'd scale that era at a B. An Average drafting era. Better than the previous era of 2012-2016 which is a C/C- at best
Habs Halifax
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Sorinth
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I still have no idea what point you are trying to make or what you are even asking.
A guy like Guhle benefitted from turning pro in the Hughes era. Evans and Lehkonen would have also benefitted had they not had to deal with Bergevin's ineptitude.
