Player Discussion Kirby Dach: Welcome to Montreal

[FF de Mars]

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My website is actually out of date.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.

Keep on going on, life really gets better over the years, you're a mighty proof of it.

 

[montreal]

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

only 2 U-18 players in the WHL that year had more points then him.

 

[NotProkofievian]

I liked Dach in his draft year a lot, and it's been pretty surprising to me that he hasn't amounted to much yet. Hopefully he can become the player Chicago thought he would be for us.

 

[BergevinBurner]

I like the move, we have a few guys that I feel can fill Romanov's shoes and if Dach can put his game together in a new environment under a new coach then it could end up being a steal.

 

[BigDaddyLurch]

...

Ask Drouin about wrist injuries...

...Drouin's got more wrong with him than just his wrist...Dach is being horrifically underrated here; seeing that not a lot of Habs fans know his game...has to put on some muscle, but he's a 200-ft big, good skating kid who shouldn't have been playing against Top Pairing D yet in his development...Chicago misused him horribly by rushing him to the Top Line and it showed...he's gonna be a good Middle Six Centre for over a decade, imo...

 

[WeThreeKings]

This f***ing rules.

Kirby Dach is one the players I've been highest on in a draft year.

This is a kid who grew from like 5'9 to 6'3 in a year. A lot of puppy with big paw moments but a lot of skill as well. He's got some jam to his game as well. The upside is sky high.

My worry is the developmental damage is done from the Hawks bringing him in too early like we did with KK.

 

[Rapala]

Has any posted a clip of Dach injuring himself at the WJHC. It was such a minimal collision I couldn't believe it knocked him out of the tournament. My only concern with Dach is he looked really brittle? I heard we have two trades to announce and the Slaf pick started to make sense until we opted for Dach not a huge fan of this move.

 

[MasterD]

Am I to understand that Dach >>> Wright ? Because that sure feels like that's how it was evaluated too!

That's pretty disingenuous. It would be Slafovsky + Dach ´>>> Wright + Romanov. And from the look of things, seems about right. Time will tell.

 

[Toene]

This f***ing rules.

Kirby Dach is one the players I've been highest on in a draft year.

This is a kid who grew from like 5'9 to 6'3 in a year. A lot of puppy with big paw moments but a lot of skill as well. He's got some jam to his game as well. The upside is sky high.

My worry is the developmental damage is done from the Hawks bringing him in too early like we did with KK.

Agreed. I was so high on Dach his draft year, he was such a beast. I thought he could go 1st overall. He had unbelievable hands but I hope the wrist-injury didnt ruin that too much.

 

[VirginiaMtlExpat]

Keep on going on, life really gets better over the years, you're a mighty proof of it.

It does if you invest in yourself. Big advocate of doing a little extra, e.g. grad school (even a Master's), which can make big difference between a job and a career. My brother went to ITHQ to become a chef, and went into a special program called Cuisine Evolutive, that meant an extra year of study, which had a huge impact on his career. Like that scene in City Slickers with Jack Palance... You just have to find that one thing.

On an unrelated note, there is dry needling in Montreal. Dry Needling Montreal | Sportmed Acupuncture

 

[Rob Sense]

Hughes is a major gambler. Unreal.

swap gambler with failure. Missing Bergevin already!

 

[Engelwood]

Not sure about his top end offensive potential but he does fit in the age range of our youg core. And of course he's a big guy with some intriguing assets. Losing Romanov hower does hurt. I really liked the guy and thought he would become a better a more mobile version of Emelin for us

So i'm kind of neutral on the trade for now. It's a wait and see thing

While Romanov is a big hitter and good on defense. He is an RFA and likely pushing for 4-5 million a year for 4-5 years. He is not worth that as he is a decent defensive d-man but he does not have the offensive upside needed to be worth that. He is a #4 or #5 Dman on most high end teams as to be in the top 3 you need to be a PMD or have the Weber style cannon and be on the power play. He is not going to develop the offensive side but will end up being a bad contract.

 

[FF de Mars]

It does if you invest in yourself. Big advocate of doing a little extra, e.g. grad school (even a Master's), which can make big difference between a job and a career. My brother went to ITHQ to become a chef, and went into a special program called Cuisine Evolutive, that meant an extra year of study, which had a huge impact on his career. Like that scene in City Slickers with Jack Palance... You just have to find that one thing.

On an unrelated note, there is dry needling in Montreal. Dry Needling Montreal | Sportmed Acupuncture

I'm a big fan of doing extra work, I read a lot of philosophy; although I wouldn't count social sciences as doing the extra, I took Masters degree classes in litterature at uqam last fall, got straight As then droped out because it felt like my time would be better invested reading actual hard books rather than writing essays about Comment parler des livres que l'on a pas lu by Pierre Bayard!

 

[VirginiaMtlExpat]

This f***ing rules.

Kirby Dach is one the players I've been highest on in a draft year.

This is a kid who grew from like 5'9 to 6'3 in a year. A lot of puppy with big paw moments but a lot of skill as well. He's got some jam to his game as well. The upside is sky high.

My worry is the developmental damage is done from the Hawks bringing him in too early like we did with KK.

With MSL, he may have the right mentor. A coach who nurtures young talent and understands offense. Without such a coach, who after doesn't grow on trees, bringing a high draft choice into the league in his teens is potentially the kiss of death.

 

[crazyd74]

That's pretty disingenuous. It would be Slafovsky + Dach ´>>> Wright + Romanov. And from the look of things, seems about right. Time will tell.

Well yes, I simplyfied things. This would be more accurate. Still, I feel that Romanov is on a path to establish himself more quickly than Dach. Wright has more projectable certaincy than Slafkovsky.

 

[Wats]

I could live with Slaf but this move was what hurt. Major hit on my confidence level for HuGo

 

[Vachon23]

Let’s hope where getting the Kirby Dach we thought we where getting in 2019

 

[CoopersFalls]

Be intriguing to see what St. Louis can bring out in him.

 

[Tyson]

Dach gives me Cody Glass vibes.
This trade made no sense.

 

[admiralcadillac]

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.

Why? We drafted Slafkovsky

 

[River Meadow]

Was this Dach pre or post wrist surgery?

 

[Grand Admiral Thrawn]

Who would you rather have?
Nazar or Dach?

 

[VirginiaMtlExpat]

Was this Dach pre or post wrist surgery?

October 2021. Post. MEDICAL UPDATE: Dach Out 4-5 Months Following Wrist Surgery

 

[admiralcadillac]

We probably picked Slaf because they intended to trade for Dach

Of course

 

[WeThreeKings]

Who would you rather have?
Nazar or Dach?

Dach