Recalled/Assigned: Owen Beck recalled from the Laval Rocket (2-24-25)

[MasterD]

This Guy disagrees.

https://www.tvasports.ca/2025/02/24/un-potentiel-top-6-pour-owen-beck

Dude, come on. You're a high quality poster. When's the last time a coach said "you know what, my player's potential is pretty limited, forget him in a top 6 role". They can't say that.

And I'm not saying there's **no** chance, but they're slim.

 

[Kobe Armstrong]

You'd think people thought we were trying to contend this year and next.

Keeping Monahan advances the floor of the team for a few years and then he craters when we are actually going to be competitive. It would have made no sense.

Are we not trying to contend next year?

Please don’t try and start working that narrative in now, if we’re not in the playoffs next year it’s a failure

 

[Rapala]

Dude, come on. You're a high quality poster. When's the last time a coach said "you know what, my player's potential is pretty limited, forget him in a top 6 role". They can't say that.

And I'm not saying there's **no** chance, but they're slim.

The interview was not fluff not even close.
Vincent went into detail why he wasn't ready to put a limit on this player's ceiling.
Owen Beck has been under estimated at every level.
He also talked about Beck being a top six worthy forward given his versatility.

Marty St Louis "He's got great assets"
Marty isn't slotting him in where he did otherwise.
I'll stick to the professional assessments for now.

I realize he doesn't have the sexy game many people love.
What he does have is a winner's game played with a winning attitude.
These are the guys who get the icetime.

 

[Rapala]

Are we not trying to contend next year?

Please don’t try and start working that narrative in now, if we’re not in the playoffs next year it’s a failure

Yes we are expecting to make the playoffs we don't believe we will be contenders.
Two different animals in my books. I don't see 16 teams as contenders I see 4-6 in any given year.

 

[Tyson]

The interview was not fluff not even close.
Vincent went into detail why he wasn't ready to put a limit on this player's ceiling.
Owen Beck has been under estimated at every level.
He also talked about Beck being a top six worthy forward given his versatility.

Marty St Louis "He's got great assets"
Marty isn't slotting him in where he did otherwise.
I'll stick to the professional assessments for now.

I realize he doesn't have the sexy game many people love.
What he does have is a winner's game played with a winning attitude.
These are the guys who get the icetime.

Beck is the type of player that gets you through the playoffs. His Memorial Cup performance last season highlighted that quality.

 

[ReHabs]

Are we not trying to contend next year?

Please don’t try and start working that narrative in now, if we’re not in the playoffs next year it’s a failure

Yes we are expecting to make the playoffs we don't believe we will be contenders.
Two different animals in my books. I don't see 16 teams as contenders I see 4-6 in any given year.

Thing is people use the word 'contend' in a purposefully ambiguous way. In this case, certain commentators have clearly shown themselves to be a big, big fans of Kent Hughes and will defer to whatever Kent Hughes achieves. We've been posting here for long enough to understand this isn't a rare position to hold -- many Habs fans automatically defer to the Habs.

If the Habs finish X out of 32 next year, they will have had a successful season and every other fan would be wrong and possibly irrational/hysterical/bipolar [insert other insults for other not-as-good fans] for expecting anything different.

 

[Rapala]

Beck is the type of player that gets you through the playoffs. His Memorial Cup performance last season highlighted that quality.

His taking the Petes to the Memorial Cup the year before was even more remarkable IMO.

 

[yianik]

Dude, come on. You're a high quality poster. When's the last time a coach said "you know what, my player's potential is pretty limited, forget him in a top 6 role". They can't say that.

And I'm not saying there's **no** chance, but they're slim.

Well Sly did, told a player to accept he is a third liner. Not sure if it was to McCaron, but it was a 1st round pick.

 

[MasterD]

Well Sly did, told a player to accept he is a third liner. Not sure if it was to McCaron, but it was a 1st round pick.

Sure. And how successful has Sly been as a head coach?

 

[yianik]

Sure. And how successful has Sly been as a head coach?

No surprise there is it ?