Catanddogguitarrr
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I have this aregument in Canadiens Montreal board about Kopitar vs Carey Price. Everybody says Price was the best choice after Crosby, a better choice ahead of Kopitar, no habs fans woukd pick Kopitar instead of Price, except me. Here's a copy paste of my post :
"If I had to pick tomorrow between Price and Kopitar, I pick Kopitar. Kopitar is a great center Habs didn't have since Bobby Smith or Pete Mahovlich. If you have to built a winning team, make sure you have a top center. Because Habs replaced aging Koivu by Gomez and it costed McDonagh. Kopitar alone is better than Koivu and Gomez. Because Gomez became so bad, Desharnais became #1 C. Galchenyuk wasn't a quarter the player Kopitar was and the same with Eller.
The same year LA picked Kopitar, they picked a solid goalie on second round : Jonathan Quick. He won 2 SC and was the goalie of usa team. Pens had few first picks, they started with Fleury, they had Malkin but when they picked Crosby, that was the main piece. Crosby was by far the Stanley Cup factor in this team, not the goalie.
Would you prefer a team with Kopitar and an average goalie like Halak or Desharnais with Price?" - end of quote
*Desharnais was a no1 center for 3 or 4 years. A very small player who was a good playmaker but not much speed. A little check and he falled on the ice like a wet rag. Canadiens fans hated him. As a #1C he replaced Scott Gomez who dropped dramaticly in scoring goals (he took One year to score One goal and was paid 8M$). Canadiens drafted a so called skilled center, Alex Galchenyuk. Lot of potential but a below average skater and a party guy. He went on the nhl drug program and he was traded to 6 teams in 3 years. All this to say Canadiens Montreal have an hard time drafting a center. Centers dratfed by Monteal : Galchenyuk, McCarron, Poehling and Kotkaniemi are big flops, it's 18 years of scout Trevor Timmins who never drafted a valuable center. But Montreal fans still beleive picking Price over Kopitar was a good thing.
So what can you answer to Canadiens fans? Because you know Anze Kopitar. And you have Quick.
"If I had to pick tomorrow between Price and Kopitar, I pick Kopitar. Kopitar is a great center Habs didn't have since Bobby Smith or Pete Mahovlich. If you have to built a winning team, make sure you have a top center. Because Habs replaced aging Koivu by Gomez and it costed McDonagh. Kopitar alone is better than Koivu and Gomez. Because Gomez became so bad, Desharnais became #1 C. Galchenyuk wasn't a quarter the player Kopitar was and the same with Eller.
The same year LA picked Kopitar, they picked a solid goalie on second round : Jonathan Quick. He won 2 SC and was the goalie of usa team. Pens had few first picks, they started with Fleury, they had Malkin but when they picked Crosby, that was the main piece. Crosby was by far the Stanley Cup factor in this team, not the goalie.
Would you prefer a team with Kopitar and an average goalie like Halak or Desharnais with Price?" - end of quote
*Desharnais was a no1 center for 3 or 4 years. A very small player who was a good playmaker but not much speed. A little check and he falled on the ice like a wet rag. Canadiens fans hated him. As a #1C he replaced Scott Gomez who dropped dramaticly in scoring goals (he took One year to score One goal and was paid 8M$). Canadiens drafted a so called skilled center, Alex Galchenyuk. Lot of potential but a below average skater and a party guy. He went on the nhl drug program and he was traded to 6 teams in 3 years. All this to say Canadiens Montreal have an hard time drafting a center. Centers dratfed by Monteal : Galchenyuk, McCarron, Poehling and Kotkaniemi are big flops, it's 18 years of scout Trevor Timmins who never drafted a valuable center. But Montreal fans still beleive picking Price over Kopitar was a good thing.
So what can you answer to Canadiens fans? Because you know Anze Kopitar. And you have Quick.
