Official Tank Thread

[River Meadow]

Nah, the real lesson is you cannot compare a draft pool from 20 years ago, with much lower picks and a different management.

There's even more parity now, more teams, more competition than ever before, everyone is better from the goalies to the #7 Dmen to the plugs and 'enforcers'.

If that's the lesson you learned then you're setting yourself up for another heartbreak, IMO.

 

[HabsCode]

Yesss

 

[HuGo Burner Acc]

Both the tank people and the playoff optimists were and are kinda foolish. I set my over/under at 83.5 at the beginning of the season and still believe Habs end up around there

 

[Ezpz]

6th is doable. Top 3 very unlikely.

 

[Habs7631]

6th is doable. Top 3 very unlikely.

Not with that attitude!!

 

[HuGort]

We draft 11 and 16 as of today. Should get too good players out of that.

 

[Tuggy]

5 points from top 5 pick
5 points from playoff spot

 

[the valiant effort]

5 points from top 5 pick
5 points from playoff spot

Only 12 pts from the division #TankBusting2025

 

[nhlfan9191]

We draft 11 and 16 as of today. Should get too good players out of that.

I can’t think of a worse position then picking 11. Not a big enough increase in the standings to call the season a success and just high enough to take us out of the top 10 for the draft.

 

[WeThreeKings]

I can’t think of a worse position then picking 11. Not a big enough increase in the standings to call the season a success and just high enough to take us out of the top 10 for the draft.

There's no real difference between the players at 8 and the players projected to go at 11.

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

Both the tank people and the playoff optimists were and are kinda foolish. I set my over/under at 83.5 at the beginning of the season and still believe Habs end up around there

With Guhle out, not sure your prediction will stand.

If we sell Evans on top of losing Guhle, we could end up witha top 5 pick. Injuries were always going to be the biggest determinent, considering our lack of talent depth.

 

[DAChampion]

I can’t think of a worse position then picking 11. Not a big enough increase in the standings to call the season a success and just high enough to take us out of the top 10 for the draft.

It seems like 11th overall gives you an approximate 1/3 chance of getting an impact player.

 

[Benstheman]

With Guhle out, not sure your prediction will stand.

If we sell Evans on top of losing Guhle, we could end up witha top 5 pick. Injuries were always going to be the biggest determinent, considering our lack of talent depth.

Without Guhle, we definitely pick top 8. If we sell guys like Armia and Evans before the TD, top 5 pick is a real possibility.

 

[nhlfan9191]

There's no real difference between the players at 8 and the players projected to go at 11.

That’s a good point I guess. I was hoping we’d either take a real step further this year or just go all in for one more tank season. Just feels like we’re spinning our tires a bit. I guess we still have time to either fall further or get back on track and get higher in the standings.

 

[WeThreeKings]

That’s a good point I guess. I was hoping we’d either take a real step further this year or just go all in for one more tank season. Just feels like we’re spinning our tires a bit. I guess we still have time to either fall further or get back on track and get higher in the standings.

It looked like they were taking that step until Heineman and Guhle went down. After that happened, I think it makes total sense that we are regressing back.

See what the team does after the 4-Nations break, but we will still have two well positioned 1st round picks to use, and some really positive news stories.

The biggest thing for the brass this off-season will be looking at the 2C position and adding to the top 4 of the defense.

And they need to make sure they get the development right on Dach, Newhook, Reinbacher, Mailloux and Slafkovsky. There's some steps forward and then some steps back, then health problems.

 

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It seems like 11th overall gives you an approximate 1/3 chance of getting an impact player.

Out of curiosity i checked who the Habs drafted 11th overall in their history. Happened twice :

1971 : Murray Wilson
1997 : Jason Ward

The list of 11th overall picks since 2001 is pretty decent though. Som very good players in there

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

Out of curiosity i checked who the Habs drafted 11th overall in their history. Happened twice :

1971 : Murray Wilson
1997 : Jason Ward

The list of 11th overall picks since 2001 is pretty decent though. Som very good players in there