Operating with the same available information, assessments were offered that you, among others, discounted entirely... And worse, were incapable of engaging with in good faith.
It's easy to dismiss a guy when he's the Designated Expendable in eleventy billion different variants of the same rejected proposals.Yeah... Key word "every". The vitriol and obnoxiousness meeting most proposals and opinions offered by Habs fans around here has gotten to ridiculous proportions.
As it turns out, Harris does have value :
Because plenty were likely wrong based on that information. Assumptions were being made that were not in evidence. And we didn't get the evidence that Waddell's perspective was different until yesterday.
No, but folks seem to assume we are - special w/r/t getting badly ripped off in every trade, anyways. The track record is still overwhelmingly in our favor.
Not accounting sufficiently for the fact that there's a different guy at the helm was undoubtedly the biggest assessment error here. That said, it's become so commonplace for folks to dismiss every Jackets asset as borderline valueless because "lol Columbus" that separating the signal from the noise when a new guy comes in is damnably difficult.
Nope
It's easy but it's also foolish to rate a player based on how often he's in trade proposals from one of the biggest fanbases.
True. From the Jackets perspective, again, he didn't have much value to us until about a month ago, after Waddell got finished giving away all the depth guys that were otherwise in the way.
Lots of wishful thinking in 2 paragraphs. I can't imagine you truly believe the first one. Montreal media is wild and the fanbase has very little self control. They believe just about anything, look no further than recently going after Chabots wife online because Shawn Simpson made a sarcastic joke about Montreal being on his 10 team no trade list.
turdnuggets over there in C'lumbus.Yup, Leafs should have chosen Laine first over all over Matthews, Habs are all set now.
I'm legit beginning to wonder to what degree that's exceptional as compared to any other fanbase when scaled up to that size. At the very least I can't remember the last time someone was exorcated there for not speaking French outside of shitposting speculation here.
No one could fit Laine into their plans. The habs had the space to take on the risk. To say he stinks simply isn't true.
You make it sound like the Habs flat out added 17.5M of dead cap. But Laine's value is not zero dollars. Not even close.
5 games... Its Montréal... if he don't get hot in pre-season, its over
You keep posting that in various threads... Very odd victim narrative that seems to cloud your reading of what's being said.
Yup. This could be a huge win for the habs or not. IMHO, they didn't give up much outside of taking on his salary.
Normally, but when the record is literally 9-0 in favor of "non-Jackets fans consistently underestimate Jackets trade results" going back well over a decade and across multiple GMs, it's difficult to exaggerate much. Seriously, the track record dates all the way back to the Rick Nash and Jeff Carter trades.
Probably because it's been consistently true.
Much of which was here, while those many trades that were wrongly predicted to all end exceptionally badly for the Blue Jackets were taking place.
Man you need the guy to play with McDavid to get good or what like at least give us a chance with him Mulletman
I'll take that bet all day long. I get the under. I'll give you 5-1 odds too.
this is what I mean by "narrow".
I can see that you believe this to be true...
Was he not president who hired Waddell before moving on to special advisor/governor role?
