Player Discussion Kirby Dach: Welcome to Montreal

[admiralcadillac]

A taller KK

A better KK

 

[crazyd74]

Hawks have a Ducharme-esque coach. It wouldn't surprise me if Dach comes in next season and puts up good numbers playing under Marty.

He better because from this day on he will always be compared to whatever Wright will become.

 

[Kudo Shinichi]

He better because from this day on he will always be compared to whatever Wright will become.

Slaf will be, not Dach.

 

[Kennerback]

they've also traded Debrincat for peanuts...

The Debrincat trade is absurd. Makes zero sense to me that they gave him away for nickles on the dollar.

What pisses me off is that it’s the Senators that pantsed Chicago.

 

[ArtPeur]

Slaf will be, not Dach.

We probably picked Slaf because they intended to trade for Dach

 

[Gillings]

Meh. Don't like this. Too risky for the price paid.

I have this bad feeling we just added 2 busts to the roster in a 39 minutes span

We’ve had our day… Seattle got the best player in the draft at 4

 

[Takeru]

weird and a $300 Romanov jersey that's now vintage..

Rip.
That’s the reason I got a custom jersey with my name on the back, won’t ever go outdated and makes for a nice icebreaker lol

 

[26Mats]

Welcome to Montreal Kirby!



Romanov + 93rd + 66th for Dach. How do we feel about this?

Anyone know why Dach's numbers were so low in Junior?

 

[salbutera]

He better because from this day on he will always be compared to whatever Wright will become.

But of course if Wright tanks, there won’t be a word uttered, let alone mea culpa’s

 

[FF de Mars]

It's kind of you to mention. No titles here. It's a collegial community. I'm the same guy who years ago was JapanMontrealExpat, moved around and landed a nice position in Virginia a few years later. Still a hockey fan.

You published so much, you're a rock star to me. I haven't even published 5 times yet; although I'm no scientist, I know how much work it takes.

 

[26Mats]

But of course if Wright tanks, there won’t be a word uttered, let alone mea culpa’s

Yeah I'd like to hear people apologizing to Grant McKagg. The guy is human, and makes mistakes. But he got this one right, when so many here got it wrong.

 

[Junohockeyfan]

Hughes is a major gambler. Unreal.

 

[admiralcadillac]

Happy we took a flyer on Dach, disappointed Romanov had to be shipped off to do it. He likely doesn't have huge upside, but he was a fun player to watch.

I absolutely love Romanov and I was gutted. I chose to trust this management the moment they took Slafkovsky because I would’ve taken Wright

 

[CoopersFalls]

This seems like a Marc Bergevin trade.

 

[Nico Cauzuki]

He better because from this day on he will always be compared to whatever Wright will become.

Slaf vs Wright
Dach vs Nazar

Hope Hughes was right

 

[crazyd74]

But of course if Wright tanks, there won’t be a word uttered, let alone mea culpa’s

Let's hope that is how it will pan out...otherwise it will mean we scraped our rebuild and are in for a few more years of hurt.

 

[Team_Spirit]

ESPN take on the trade

 

[A Loyal Demidog]

Imagine trading a 13th overall pick (could have been Kemell, Lekkerimaki, Nazar) for a very recent 3rd overall pick whose team (that is in a rebuild, no less) doesn't want him (a center - something Chicago also needs) & his broken wrist anymore. Wonderful...

We should have gambled the 26th pick for a major red flag like Dach... NOT 13th...

 

[VirginiaMtlExpat]

You published so much, you're a rock star to me. I haven't even published 5 times yet; although I'm no scientist, I know how much work it takes.

Thanks. The name of the game is getting students to do the work for me and collaborating with other strong researchers with similar resources. I don't have the appetite for doing my own implementation any more.

My website is actually out of date. I've got several cool projects that are heating up that you would like. A breast surgery robot -cutting/cauterizing, grasping, bagging, and retracting the bagged/resected tumor- where the planning/navigation is done by my student, based on MRI and 3D ultrasound. A skull base neurosurgery (aneurysm clipping) simulator, using a haptic device from Montreal company Haply, modified with handles of real instruments that click in and out. Scoliosis surgery planning based on simulation of the patient's spine that includes the ligaments in the model, to enable surgeons to limit the amount of cutting they do to make the spine compliant enough for correction. Pilot-centered flight simulation, based on coupling of FlightGear and Pulse Physiology Engine, to recreate hypoxic episodes in fighter jets and eventually detect their onset in real-time using neural networks trained on the coupled simulation.

This is why I tell people that I plan to keep going into my 70s and 80s. This is the best I've felt about my career and the most fun I've had.

 

[crazyd74]

Imagine trading a 13th overall pick (could have been Kemell, Lekkerimaki, Nazar) for a very recent 3rd overall pick whose team (that is in a rebuild, no less) doesn't want him (a center - something Chicago also needs) & his broken wrist anymore. Wonderful...

Ask Drouin about wrist injuries...

 

[Whitesnake]

Yeah I'd like to hear people apologizing to Grant McKagg. The guy is human, and makes mistakes. But he got this one right, when so many here got it wrong.

Why in the world would people apologize to McKagg when he kept bashing and laughing at people who had different opinions than him? Would you apologize to Donald Trump if he'd get something right? lol

And what are we talking about here? Is McCagg going with is personal preference? Or is he an insider? The WHOLE thing here wasn't about him preferring Slaf. It's him BASHING Wright with the most stupidest reasons ever. Type of reasons that Réjean Tremblay would use and we'd laugh at him.

Making mistakes is all fine. If only he'd be humble about it.

 

[MD thaivuN]

2012 #3: Galchenyuk
2013 #3: Drouin
2018 #3: Kotkaniemi
2019 #3: Dach

2016 #3: PLD

we're going to be signing Gudbranson, are we?

 

[Dominance]

Dach hasn’t looked the same since his wrist injury, but as a 19 year old in his first taste of NHL playoff action he outplayed Draisaitl going head-to-head. If he’s healed and turns things around a little, this has the potential to be a franchise-altering trade for the Habs.

 

[crazyd74]

ESPN take on the trade

Wow you can feel the awkwardness from the commentators about his trade. They seems as dumbfounded as I am right now.

Instead of drafting a center we traded one of our more solid defenseman for a center.

I reiterate, the comparable will be Dach and Wright. If Wright pans out and Dach does not flourish within the next two years, this will be godfully awful.

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

Romanov + whatever for the 13th pick was good value, but then to trade that up for Dach? Like wtf.

They better be sure he can blossom or else this is going to be the first bad gamble Hughes will have made.

Naturally, I'll extend the same benefit of doubt as I do any new GM, have hope and patience as I do with every young player, but man this feels like a missed opportunity.

Getting that other pick snagged by Arizona too.