Player Discussion Kirby Dach: Welcome to Montreal part 2

[JeffreyLFC]

if it's ACL, which seem likely based on what they are saying, it's the season.

 

[Deebs]

While I agree with you - we’ll see if long term means a couple months or the season. Big difference there

True

 

[Team_Spirit]

Looks like it runs in the family

Colton Dach Hockey Stats and Profile at hockeydb.com

Statistics of Colton Dach, a hockey player from St. Albert, ALTA born Jan 4 2003 who was active from 2019 to 2025.

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[OldCraig71]

I have looked at the replay and it appears that his right knee got hit when Tinordi checked him. During the GDT none of us really knew how he got injured, I believe there was speculation about a cut or being hit with the puck somehow. No one really knew. Hopefully, it is an injury that can be rehabbed instead of surgery and he has a speedy recovery.

 

[WeThreeKings]

Sometimes HF does a really good job of putting into perspective just how f***ing stupid the average population is.

 

[OpenIceHit]

Lmao we’re playing for a bottom spot with or without Dach my man

With injuries, yes. Without too many of them, I seriously thought that we were better than at least 7 or 8 teams. In any case, if it’s a bad draft year, we’ll probably end up picking top 3 again…

 

[Sasha Orlov]

With injuries, yes. Without too many of them, I seriously thought that we were better than at least 7 or 8 teams. In any case, if it’s a bad draft year, we’ll probably end up picking top 3 again…

Our fully healthy lineup is horrific but I like your optimism

 

[HabzSauce]

What a fat f*ckin joke man. You'd think the hockey gods would have mercy on this this time around after all the injuries we've had over the past few seasons.

2 games into the new season and we lose Dach long term of all guys. FFS

 

[sampollock]

I feel very bad for Kirby....
Brutal as a young guy...
Hope no surgery

 

[Boss Man Hughes]

He's done like dinner. Got to plan the team assuming he will never be healthy.

 

[FerrisRox]

Dach was young enough to be part of their young core. Teams don’t typically give up big center prospects with high upside for the price we got him. It’s not out of the realm to think they were concerned about his health. He hasn’t had one healthy season dating back to junior.

What injury do you think Kirby Dach sustained during the 2019-20 season?

 

[Shawnathon]

Sometimes HF does a really good job of putting into perspective just how f***ing stupid the average population is.

And you’re above this how?

 

[FerrisRox]

He's done like dinner. Got to plan the team assuming he will never be healthy.

That's an idiotic suggestion. Why on earth would the team do that? What are you talking about?

 

[Redux91]

That was the softest play ever.

Dude isn't made to be a pro hockey player. If he got hurt on that, find another career. We wasted a high draft pick for that bum, sad.

It's a common NHL injury lol relax
That happens more than you think that knee knee contact
It's how Emelin blew out his ACL too

 

[nhlfan9191]

What injury do you think Kirby Dach sustained during the 2019-20 season?

I obviously have no way of knowing something like that. I’m a huge fan of Dach. He’s part of the Saskatoon Blades alumni which is my hometown and makes him a rare entirety in Montreal. But you have to wonder if his grocery list of injuries was in fact a big concern for Chicago. It’s impossible to ignore especially after his first two years here.

 

[Redux91]

And you’re above this how?

Because you feel targeted lol

 

[WeThreeKings]

And you’re above this how?

By not being an insane person who flips my lid and doomsdays every possible thing.

 

[Fenwick McCorsi]

Well that sucks. On Ted Lasso their physio room was cursed by the ghosts of dead soldiers from the war. Maybe we have something similar going on?

It's unreal the amount of key injuries this team has faced. Hell even the run to the Finals was on the back of two greats held together by duct tape and bubblegum who'd never play again. Absolutely nuts the kind of luck this franchise has had in my lifetime. Kovalev is the only 80pt+ player I've ever known, Jesus Christ.

Exactly WHO did Molson bury under the Bell Center for things to be this way?!? Calice.

 

[Shawnathon]

By not being an insane person who flips my lid and doomsdays every possible thing.

Don’t play Mr. Morality. You have your fair share of insane takes as well.

 

[Paddy17]

This started around ten years ago. There's a vocal contingent of this community that would rather be "right" about their hot takes in terms of lineup construction to the point that they will openly root against players or sometimes the team itself if they feel it will support their "opinion." I first remember really being taken aback by this around the time of Jiri Sekac getting traded to Anaheim. A handful of very vocal fans trashed Bergevin and the team for the trade and made outrageous and hyperbolic statements about Sekac's actual value and how this trade was going to "haunt" the Canadiens, blah blah blah. When they were quickly proven to be hilariously wrong, none of them conceded they were wrong and in fact, several of them just pretended they never made the silly comments in the first place. A year and a half later, the Canadiens traded Sven Andrighetto and a lot of the same bozos made the same claims they had made about Sekac, clearly nobody learned their lesson, but in this case, Adrighetto put up some points right after the trade, so this time they were much louder and much more dramatic in their criticisms of Bergevin and the organization. By the next season, Sven had turned back into a pumpkin, and, much like Sekac before him, quickly played himself out of the NHL. Once again, amazingly, nobody admitted they were wrong, nobody changed their opinion and nobody even acknowledged how out to to lunch they were with their player assessment.


This place never used to be like that. Trades and signings used to garner a wide range of reactions, but there was a thousand shades of grey, not black and white. More recently, there's this weird need by some of our posters to only be black and white. So if they don't like a trade or signing, it's the worst trade or signing ever made and everything is hilariously over the top dramatic, blah blah blah. No matter what happens after that trade, these loud, vocal idiots can't help themselves, they aren't going to trade their mind, so they have to pretend the player is awful even when it's clear they are not.

We are literally watching this happen right now with Juraj Slafkovsky playing his best games in a Canadiens uniform this week and clearly showing great improvement in his physical play, positioning and reads... you would think this would be exciting news at a place like this, but instead, we have the usual suspects trying to pretend he hasn't shown improvement because they would rather Slafkovsky be a huge bust than admit they were wrong.

Go back to the Mike Matheson trade and you can read me arguing with a ton of bozos who were telling me how terrible Mike Matheson was and what an awful trade it was. They don't even care if they know what they're talking about, they just state their opinion, educated or otherwise, and seem to want to die on that hill no matter what.

It's sadly a sign of our times... this is happening everywhere, not just here.

 

[the valiant effort]

It’s incredible that because a handful of posters have gone a little overboard with the doom and gloom it will now be deemed totally unreasonable to be concerned or skeptical that Dach can stay healthy for sustained periods while fulfilling a #1 or 1A/1B role.

 

[salbutera]

Well that sucks. On Ted Lasso their physio room was cursed by the ghosts of dead soldiers from the war. Maybe we have something similar going on?

It's unreal the amount of key injuries this team has faced. Hell even the run to the Finals was on the back of two greats held together by duct tape and bubblegum who'd never play again. Absolutely nuts the kind of luck this franchise has had in my lifetime. Kovalev is the only 80pt+ player I've ever known, Jesus Christ.

Exactly WHO did Molson bury under the Bell Center for things to be this way?!? Calice.

Habs won 16-Cups in 26-years (1953-1979)

Everything evens out in life…

 

[WeThreeKings]

Someone should have told Pittsburgh that Crosby's body can't handle hockey and that he was made of glass.

Didn't throw in the towel and it was a massive mistake for them.

 

[Paddy17]

I’m hoping that’s the plan for the 2nd line.

I’d call up Heineman to replace Andy on line 1. I doubt this happens now tho.

Heineman is also out indefinitely.

 

[dcyhabs]

He was a terrible skater.....just a bad draft pick.

My memory is pretty bad, but I seem to remember Wilkie could skate a bit before his knee injury. No hope after the injury.