HF Habs: The official 2023-2024 tank thread
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LaP
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People forget we don't have the tie break over anybody outside of the bottom 4. If we tie any teams including Arizona we finish behind them.
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Did you even read my post? I said for it to happen we would need to fall to this rank but it's not happening. We are almost guaranteed a top 10 at this point and i don't see KH tarding a top 10.
Also Dach was a 20 years old guy drafted 3rd overall (unicorn type of player). It was lightning in a bottle this type of trade it never happens and it was also a 13th overall pick not a top 10 pick. Who will be avalaible at 6-10 will be a better prospect than Nazar was and you wont get offered a 20 years old unicorn drafted 3rd overall again.
When Dach comes back next year you'll eat these words
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There’s no way to have predicted what happened to him. Great trade, wrong result - so far.
MB would not trade a top ten 10 pick either for a 55 pt. player. The one thing that MB was relatively competent at was trades. Also, this is not the NFL or NBA. NHL teams rarely, if ever, trade top ten picks prior to the draft.
They're not trading a top 10 pick for Zegras.
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I'm hoping by some miracle Iginla and Conroy have that win because we're winners mentality and don't go into a rebuild over the summer.
We'll see what they end up doing. But even if they try to ice a competitive team, they may not be able to salvage the mess Trevling left.
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Sergachev for Drouin was basically that, we traded a guy 1 year removed from being drafted top-10 for a guy whose best season with us was 53 points.
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oh bloodlines can matter, we had this debate when people wanted KK over Brady, because they said bloodlines didn't mean shit. It matters, people gotta stop bringing up the Brent Gretzky comparisons and let it go. It's an intangible that can be measured.
If I'm picking between those two kids, It's not even close which one I draft.
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And I specifically qualified it with "basically that" meaning it was very similar but not exactly the same.
You also said he was relatively competent which he wasn't.
There seems to be more angst in the tank thread recently than last season where a bottom 4 was imperative.
We see the same assumptions based on schedule that we did last season.
The only teams who will be pushing are those who can move up the standings.
Even that isn't a given as the 2-7-1 Panthers are proving.
I think I mentioned this earlier I'd prefer to spell players now vs later.
This time of year is actually a pre-season of sorts for a number of clubs.
NHL hockey teams ramp up their play in the last couple of games before the season starts.
That some teams use this same approach for the post season shouldn't surprise anyone.
There is absolutely no predictability as to what the placeholders are going to do.
I feel it doesn’t change much at this point if we finish 5th or 7th last. 2% more at the top pick, that aside BPA will probably be a D at 5th and KH might reach for a forward that would be available at 7th anyway. 7th might make it easier.
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They can still fall behind Ottawa and Calgary and seem hell bent on doing it.
Dach missed almost the entire 20-21 season due to wrist injury. Came back and reaggravated it and that was it for the year.
21-22 saw him play the most game in his pro career but still ended his season a few games earlier due to a shoulder injury.
Injuries were part of the reason why he was available in the first place. Far from a unicorn type of player. The potential was interesting which is why Hughes traded for him but the red flags were plenty as well.
I'd love to.
I am just being realistic.. 5 years into his NHL career, 2 full missed seasons and never played more than 70 games. 212 games played out of a possible 410. That's 52%.
Just stating facts. Not sure how that is worst post of the year but ok.
There were some indications. He missed parts of 2 junior seasons. Injured at WJC on a nothing play. His brother has an even worse injury history. It was worth the risk though. Another injury and I would forget about him as part of the nucleus and just pencil him as a part time player.
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Are Crosby and Barkov "part time players"? They've been injured a lot in their career...
I mean all of these are freak injuries, if it was always a knee, or a shoulder or a wrist I'd agree but
WJC - Wrist Break
Last year - shoulder Tear
This year - ACL/MCL injury.
That points moreso to bad luck then to an injury prone player. I'll concede i'm a huge Dach-Stan and was more excited to watch him this year then any other player, but I think when he comes back next year he'll be a force
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