The problem is this is being used as the 'tank thread' which will still be relevant to a degree this year.
Just make another thread that's dedicated to drafting during the rebuild, then the Michkov non-selection shit can comfortably sit in it and I can ignore it.
This 6 degrees of Michkov in every thread is just a cop out to allow the whining to permeate the entire board.
And yes, I'm aware the whining about whining about Michkov is a paradox. But there's gotta be a better way to structure this so people who have moved on from the fact they didn't make that pick, for a plethora of reasons some choose to ignore, can still enjoy discussing the Habs and the rebuild, without having to be dragged back to one single decision. A single decision that had so much context around it, that it wasn't as simple as just picking the guy and failing to recognize those nuances is just opening the door to yelling at the clouds about it.
Even Khusnutdinov just spoke out about how the Russian media portrayed Michkov.
Honestly, people can whine about Michkov all they want. I really don't care much about those posts. What I do care about is the state of where we're at and I continue to think that we're in a great spot. The RB injury sucks. But he's so young that it shouldn't affect much long term. Let him heal and come back.
We're still stacked at forward and stacked at D in terms of youth and prospects. Very few teams in the league have the depth and talent that we do. Hutson has come in and absolutely crushed it. All of a sudden our PP is firing at 25 percent and he's just getting started. Caufield is back... that bodes incredibly well for us long term. Question marks remain with Dach and not all of our D will pan out. Reinbacher looked like a pretty safe pick (even if he we believe we could've done better elsewhere) and I see no reason to doubt this.
The season started crappy. I don't think we'll be that bad by the end of the year but even if we are, it simply yields us another big pick. And as much as I'd want us finishing higher this year, a high pick would be a great consolation prize.
Honestly, where's the weakness long term? I don't see one. The forwards have tons of talent. Same with the D. Montie's killing it in net and we've still got Fowler out there. The only thing I think I'd like to see is a little more size up front. But that's not that hard to acquire given the assets we have.
So let people bitch about Michkov all they want. We saw the same kind of nonsense in the Slaf thread and those people are going to clown themselves no matter what. I don't really care. And even if RB doesn't pan out and Michkov does... it doesn't change the fact that we're killing it on the rebuild. We might even wind up with the two best players from the 22 draft. There's just so much to be excited about. If people want to clown themselves with doomsday stuff... that's fine.
It was the same with Carey Price. We had tons of people who clowned themselves there. What happened? He became a blue chip HOFer who led crap teams to playoff steals and a final. It's the same thing here. We've got tons of great talent and people will continue to shit all over it. Let them, that's the nature of fandom. If we lose three games in a row we NEED to fire the coach - it's always been that way. Last year you had guys who wanted to dump Caufield for Pete's sake.