Official Tank Thread

[Schooner Guy]

Without Dach injury, we may have been a bubble-ish team and not even traded Monahan.

And we could have still traded Romanov and kept that pick instead of Dach.

That's ridiculous! Dach's so good that he could have put us in playoff contention but he's so bad that we shouldn't have traded for him at age 21. You're all over the place.

 

[ReHabs]

No. They were very barely in their 20s when we traded for them and medium term investments. Not short term. We bought low on them because of their situations with their previous teams.

Have you ever looked at the odds of late 1sts and early 2nds having meaningful NHL careers? I believe you once called those picks magic beans. Dach and Newhook were higher percentage bets.

The commentary is based on the notion that we need to strap in for a “Long Rebuild”. These shortcut moves (trading magic beans, indeed) are at odds with it.

Therefore, if it isn’t a Long Rebuild, then we shouldn’t be happy to see such a big setback this season.

At least in one’s frame of reference it should be one or the other: you either expected and wanted a short rebuild or a long rebuild. It can’t be that the Dach/Newhook moves are par for the course and also we need to endure 8 years of losing.

Dach missed the entire season last year due to a serious knee injury. It would be premature to close the book on him especially after what we saw in Caufield's goal scoring his first season back after shoulder surgery.

Dach missed long swaths of time before the trade too. It’s why he was put up for trade in the first place. Chicago closed the book on him.

It’s worth noting

I think you're picking apart a nothingburger on those trades.

Those trades are part of a pattern that indicates “Short Rebuild”. Don’t you think?

 

[Runner77]

That's ridiculous! Dach's so good that he could have put us in playoff contention but he's so bad that we shouldn't have traded for him at age 21. You're all over the place.

A lot of us seem to forget how positive Dach’s progress was, pre-injury. There doesn’t appear to be any physical limitations that are causing his current sub par level of play (not unexpected, following major surgery and long period of inactivity).

Listening to Patrick Friolet this morning, who is on the Habs beat and is around the team daily, he’s convinced that Dach’s issues are mental — which probably aligns with what most of us are perceiving about his struggles.

 

[Schooner Guy]

Those trades are part of a pattern that indicates “Short Rebuild”. Don’t you think?

I see them as low risk, high reward trades for very young players with upside who the Habs can try to develop.

 

[OnTheRun]

The commentary is based on the notion that we need to strap in for a “Long Rebuild”. These shortcut moves (trading magic beans, indeed) are at odds with it.

Therefore, if it isn’t a Long Rebuild, then we shouldn’t be happy to see such a big setback this season.

At least in one’s frame of reference it should be one or the other: you either expected and wanted a short rebuild or a long rebuild. It can’t be that the Dach/Newhook moves are par for the course and also we need to endure 8 years of losing.

Dach missed long swaths of time before the trade too. It’s why he was put up for trade in the first place. Chicago closed the book on him.

It’s worth noting

Those trades are part of a pattern that indicates “Short Rebuild”. Don’t you think?

Bro... The rebuild doesn't hinges on 2 reclamation projects. Taking a flyer on two guys with an uncertain trajectory isn't a shortcut either, it just an alternate route of using the picks to draft 2~3 guys with a uncertain trajectory.

If Dach and/or Newhook aren't it then someone else will swoop in and take the roster spot(s) and that someone could be one of our draftee or a FA or a trade return. (If you want a "short rebuild" you need to acquire youngish players of known quality that move the needle right off the bat.)

 

[ReHabs]

I see them as low risk, high reward trades for very young players with upside who the Habs can try to develop.

Three seasons in, Dach has trended down and lost value. Newhook has lost value. Low-risk? Maybe, sure.

Bro... The rebuild doesn't hinges on 2 reclamation projects. Taking a flyer on two guys with an uncertain trajectory isn't a shortcut either, it just an alternate route of using the picks to draft 2~3 guys with a uncertain trajectory.

So you think the pair of moves are rebuild-neutral? Fair enough.

If Dach and/or Newhook aren't it then someone else will swoop in and take the roster spot(s) and that someone could be one of our draftee or a FA or a trade return.

We don’t have any depth whatsoever to replace them two. It’s partially bad roster building partially bad luck.

(If you want a "short rebuild" you need to acquire youngish players of known quality that move the needle right off the bat.)

I thought those two moves only make sense in a Short Rebuild scenario. Therefore if they went wrong, as they have so far, we’d fall back to a Long Rebuild scenario. It’s unfortunate and a net loss of asset value if you tried to make some moves now to acquire an actual capable 2C who isn’t afraid of contact and an actual capable middle6 winger who isn’t a disaster.

It’s not a big deal in the scope of the daunting Long Rebuild we’re facing but I guess what I’m trying to put over is that the Habs have earned some criticism for getting it wrong so far. We’re not in the honeymoon phase.

 

[OnTheRun]

Three seasons in, Dach has trended down and lost value. Newhook has lost value. Low-risk? Maybe, sure.


So you think the pair of moves are rebuild-neutral? Fair enough.

We don’t have any depth whatsoever to replace them two. It’s partially bad roster building partially bad luck.

I thought those two moves only make sense in a Short Rebuild scenario. Therefore if they went wrong, as they have so far, we’d fall back to a Long Rebuild scenario. It’s unfortunate and a net loss of asset value if you tried to make some moves now to acquire an actual capable 2C who isn’t afraid of contact and an actual capable middle6 winger who isn’t a disaster.

It’s not a big deal in the scope of the daunting Long Rebuild we’re facing but I guess what I’m trying to put over is that the Habs have earned some criticism for getting it wrong so far. We’re not in the honeymoon phase.

So you are saying your perception of the rebuild would be wildly different if we had Fairbrother, Nazar and Hayes in the AHL, Gulyayev in the KHL and Gauthier in the Q instead of Dach and Newhook?