Quite possible that the Habs don’t draft Demidov if they already have Michkov
HF Habs: Out of Town Thread: 2024-2025 season
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MarkovsKnee
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Rags are on a 3 game losing streak, are 5-5 in last 10 games, and have given up 40+ shots during that losing streak. Vets are driftless except for Panarin. Rags fans want Kreider & Trouba gone in particular. Lol
Florida is also on a 4 game losing streak and are 4-6 in last 10. Toronto could easily win the Atlantic this year. 2 straight Stanley Cup finals might be catching up to Florida. That's a lot of hockey. Plus, they lost a lot of depth last summer especially on D.
Colorado could miss the playoffs because their goaltending is beyond shit. It's hard to believe they've allowed this to go on so long. They have a great team that's being completely undone by the worst goaltending in the league. Just terrible management of what should be a consistently elite team.
Colorado is a good team but not great. Not a lot of depth but enough to make the playoffs with a decent goaltender. Primeau is better than what they have.
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I don't think Habs fans would complain today if they had Michkov + Dickinson over Reinbacher + Demidov. Maybe if or when Demidov tears the league apart when he joins, we can all breathe a bit more easy.
The issue wasn't Michkov vs Demidov. At the time of the 2023 draft it was: did the Habs want to add small, not very good skater Michkov to a top6 that had Caufield on it + Newhook, Suzuki, and a depth chart which featured actual real-life pygmies like Kidney and Farrell. What DR brought to the depth chart and DR's own skills and tendencies made him extremely attractive to the Habs organization. Given their valuation of DR -- they absolutely LOVED him -- it makes sense to me why they'd prefer to lean on DR over Michkov.
Was their valuation of Michkov and DR wrong? We'll know as the years go on.
Hins77
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Having a discussion comparing Michkov vs Reinbacher isnt fair at all.
First of all, forward are coming in the NHL earlier during their career and usually they make a positive impact earlier on their team than Dman.
Just an exemple here, it took some years to Hedman to become a dominant Dman, while Matt Duchene was already a really good forward post draft. Nobody here would take Duchene over Hedman.
It will need 2/3 years to know what Reinbacher bring on the table. I personnally think is floor is a top 4 dman, and I still think he can become a first pair. A kind of Dobson, Seider.
That kind of dman are just untouchable, you need to draft them, and this is what Mtl did.
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The bolded part of your post is not the only thing that went into the Habs decision on skipping Michkov despite how many times you post it. There were numerous other issues which is why he was even available at 5 and eventually dropped 6 spots.
MarkovsKnee
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Not surprised. The only one of that group playing well is Panarin. The rest have been crap, including Fox.
It was wrong. Michkov is and always was in a different class of player. Best we can hope for now is for DR to at least give us something good, and I really liked DR in his draft year.
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The conspiracies to which you presume to allude didn’t stop the hard-ass Flyers from chomping at the bit to snatch him at 7. With all the nasty things said about him one would figure he would drop more. Didn’t happen.
I prefer to deal with the facts as I have them. Michkov is one of the most maligned prospects I’ve ever witnessed — moron David Amber lied about his father’s passing (said his father was murdered) at the moment Michkov was picked. I can’t imagine how livid I’d be if I was one of his family members and had to read and hear this CRAP.
This full-court press of unbounded rotten smears is embarrassing. It hasn’t stopped Michkov of becoming a Calder contender and Philly esctaric for what he can do. So far the shit only splashes on the smear artists.
Until there’s some evidence or authoritative statement, it’s only fair to deal with facts. The Habs preferred to pick Reinbacher and that’s precisely what they did and precisely what was shown in the post-draft PR video.
