Vachon23
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Interested to see if anyone else follows Churla to Florida. He would know who are the best Habs scouts.
Donald Audette played with the Panthers !
Interested to see if anyone else follows Churla to Florida. He would know who are the best Habs scouts.
Brackett said he wanted to move back to the US, preferably closer to his Boston home & familychurla leave so soon after the draft... if this was in the air why didn’t we go after Judd Brackett...
Jeeze, you know your hockey. I don't recognize one name. Unless, of course, they're all your family members.
churla leave so soon after the draft... if this was in the air why didn’t we go after Judd Brackett...
Brad Whelen - Named Assistant Director of amateur scouting last season (24 years experience scouting WHL/NHL). Doubt he leaves that position for another not head honcho job.
Chris Morehouse - CBJ Director of scouting (7 years experience, 3 scout, 2 asst dir, 2 dir). Again, doubt we can poach him.
Stéphane Pilotte - Anaheim scout (31 years experience scout/GM QMJHL and scout NHL). Maybe a possibility?
Jérôme Mésonéro - Colorado scout (23 years experience QMJHL/NHL including 9 years QMJHL GM). Again, maybe?
Alexandre Rouleau - Chicago scout (3 years QMJHL GM, 5 years scout NHL). Interesting, but maybe not for director as he is only 37. Might ruffle the older scouts feathers.
Yanick Lemay - Winnipeg Scout (9 years) Underwhelming pick.
Exactly what we need?
Yes.To people happy at he departure: are you really that unhappy with our drafting 2017-2020?
Brad Whelen - Named Assistant Director of amateur scouting last season (24 years experience scouting WHL/NHL). Doubt he leaves that position for another not head honcho job.
Chris Morehouse - CBJ Director of scouting (7 years experience, 3 scout, 2 asst dir, 2 dir). Again, doubt we can poach him.
Stéphane Pilotte - Anaheim scout (31 years experience scout/GM QMJHL and scout NHL). Maybe a possibility?
Jérôme Mésonéro - Colorado scout (23 years experience QMJHL/NHL including 9 years QMJHL GM). Again, maybe?
Alexandre Rouleau - Chicago scout (3 years QMJHL GM, 5 years scout NHL). Interesting, but maybe not for director as he is only 37. Might ruffle the older scouts feathers.
Yanick Lemay - Winnipeg Scout (9 years) Underwhelming pick.
A scouting team (or any team really) needs synergy. Adding a disruptive element as a head is often not beneficial. Also, he doesn't have that much experience compared to our previous head scouts.
Churla had 15 years experience in the NHL as a scout before becoming director of amateur scouting (12 before becoming Chief amateur scout).
Timmins had 3 years as team manager (whatever that means) with 2 years as conditioning coach. Then he was scouting coordinator for 4 years. Then he was Director of hockey ops for 3 1/2 years (everything was with Ottawa) before joining Montreal.
Rouleau would not have the respect of previous NHL guys as he was a decent ECHLer at best (and a Ligne Magnus All-Star but lol). He has less experience than 11 out of 17 (technically if you count Carriere HC time in NCAA-III you can add him too) of our scouts (some because they actually played pro hockey for a while).
He won one QMJHL championship as GM.
Since he became an NHL scout, Chicago has drafted 5 QMJHL players. To be fair, I could not confirm if Rouleau was QMJHL scout as the CHI website doesn't specify.
Nathan Noel who's trending towards being a ECHLer (trade to PHI).
Alexis Gravel who looks like a pretty subpar goalie in the QMJHL.
Nicolas Beaudin had a decent AHL season and played 1 game in the NHL.
Philipp Kurashev was ok in the AHL last year. Currently doing good in the Swiss league with 7 assists in 9 games.
Louis Crevier was just drafted so who knows. Currently doing good in the QMJHL.
Unless he can be linked to some out of QMJHL home runs, there is not much there to give him a director position aside from his birth place.
Brad Whelen - Named Assistant Director of amateur scouting last season (24 years experience scouting WHL/NHL). Doubt he leaves that position for another not head honcho job.
Chris Morehouse - CBJ Director of scouting (7 years experience, 3 scout, 2 asst dir, 2 dir). Again, doubt we can poach him.
Stéphane Pilotte - Anaheim scout (31 years experience scout/GM QMJHL and scout NHL). Maybe a possibility?
Jérôme Mésonéro - Colorado scout (23 years experience QMJHL/NHL including 9 years QMJHL GM). Again, maybe?
Alexandre Rouleau - Chicago scout (3 years QMJHL GM, 5 years scout NHL). Interesting, but maybe not for director as he is only 37. Might ruffle the older scouts feathers.
Yanick Lemay - Winnipeg Scout (9 years) Underwhelming pick.
That's all good and well in theory. However, Timmins had nearly 20 years at this point, if I was Bergevin I would bring someone who is not in Timmins circle. Someone that would challenge Timmins.
Now, I'm not saying that's Rouleau, I was not making a point to get Rouleau at all (I don't know him). I was talking about the 37 years old part.
For me, it would be someone clearly smarter and more tech-savvy than Timmins, and that's someone you can just find at this point, they are out there. Around 40 years old, 10+ years of NHL experience, with new skill sets.
Let's be honest, in the next 10 years there will be a massive turnover in NHL scouts, the next-gen guys are much more tech-savvy and AI is coming for the NHL scout job. This pandemic just solidified this, as all scouting levels are moving to get on video - solidifying the ingestion of video data by AIs. As a result, I could see teams going from 15-20 scouts down to 5, but pay these 5 much better (resulting in Google-Apple like talents in scouting departments)
churla leave so soon after the draft... if this was in the air why didn’t we go after Judd Brackett...
Those drafts are still too early to call one way or the other. Churla has been here since '13. I don't know when they promoted him to head scout but the years 13-16 are not exactly earth-shattering drafts.To people happy at his departure: are you really that unhappy with our drafting 2017-2020?
Those drafts are still too early to call one way or the other. Churla has been here since '13. I don't know when they promoted him to head scout but the years 13-16 are not exactly earth-shattering drafts.
He wanted full control and he would't have that here
Interested to see if anyone else follows Churla to Florida. He would know who are the best Habs scouts.
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