The state of the Habs Rebuild - The Next step

What note you give to Kent Hughes' Rebuild? ?

  • A

    Votes: 205 54.7%
  • B

    Votes: 134 35.7%
  • C

    Votes: 32 8.5%
  • D

    Votes: 3 0.8%
  • E

    Votes: 1 0.3%
  • F

    Votes: 3 0.8%

  • Total voters
    375

1909

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Jul 6, 2016
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How about- for the time being (let’s say a season or two) give the « C » to a veteran player like Matheson or Savard ? Suzuki doesn’t seem to be ready for the job, and it would take a ton of pressure off his shoulders, if only for the pressure by some MTL medias , who are blaming him to not be bilingual yet. Matheson is well respected in the room.

Dach was great before his injury. I don’t agree there. As for Newhook, I like him more as a winger.
Newhook was getting pretty good at center last season with Gally and Armia as his wingers.
 

HabzSauce

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Jun 10, 2022
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Habs need to find a way to get a stud C. Dach has a lot to prove still and the only other potential candidates are Hage/Demidov. Which are years away. This team would look so much better with two legit top 6 C's, and guys like Slaf/CC/Laine/Demidov on the wings.

Maybe through this year draft we get one.
 

Sorinth

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Jan 18, 2013
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I will settle for not getting out shot by 10 shots a game, getting schooled every night or watching them chase in their own end for minutes at a time but if that’s the hockey you enjoy, you do you.

ok, you got me, they look just fine in their own end, lol. MSL fans 🤷

In the MIX, baby!!!
And we're back full circle to being impatient, not understanding what a rebuild would actually entail, and temper tantrums.
 
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26Mats

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Jun 23, 2018
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Habs need to find a way to get a stud C. Dach has a lot to prove still and the only other potential candidates are Hage/Demidov. Which are years away. This team would look so much better with two legit top 6 C's, and guys like Slaf/CC/Laine/Demidov on the wings.

Maybe through this year draft we get one.
Monahan would have been great. But 5 years was risky.
 

ReimanSum1908

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And we're back full circle to being impatient, not understanding what a rebuild would actually entail, and temper tantrums.
I've said from the very beginning that our competitive window opens when Suzuki and Caufield are around thirty; we just have to hope that they develop further, given their contracts, and hold up until then and that the other contracts that we sign, and players that we draft, actually pan out.

All those who believed that we could somehow achieve success through a "three-year rebuild" were terribly optimistic, or failed to understand the true depth of the organizational dead weight and rot, some of which has been added to, rather than removed, during the process.
 
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Habby4Life

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Nov 12, 2008
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And we're back full circle to being impatient, not understanding what a rebuild would actually entail, and temper tantrums.
Temper tantrums, hahaha, the best!!!

Tell me, oh mighty one, how is getting blitzed in their own end every night an ok thing in yr 3/4 of the rebuild?

Some MSL fans 😂

I've said from the very beginning that our competitive window opens when Suzuki and Caufield are around thirty; we just have to hope that they develop further, given their contracts, and hold up until then and that the other contracts that we sign, and players that we draft, actually pan out.

All those who believed that we could somehow achieve success through a "three-year rebuild" were terribly optimistic, or failed to understand the true depth of the organizational dead weight and rot, some of which has been added to, rather than removed, during the process.
A 8 yr rebuild, 5 more yrs, hahaha.

Heck, they might as well trade NS & CC now.
 
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Spearmint Rhino

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Sep 17, 2013
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The next step is backwards by the looks of it, we will pick in the Top 3 after 2 years at 5 and hopefully another pick mid-teens

And I could honestly care less as we weren't competing this year, Laine addition was fun for some excitement but that was never going to move us up 10 spots. This TDL and next offseason will determine if we are in perennial rebuild or if we are truly moving towards being in the mix
 

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