The state of the Habs Rebuild - The Next step

[the]

I agree, but 10-15 with progression and milestones was what i was looking for.. unless a trye diamond in the rough prospect somehow pulls a Wyatt Johnston, i fail to see how 5-10 just a rebuild.. a year like this starts to become BUF OTT territory... not good atall

I've always said we will need to suffer 5 years minimum. I've been vocal in the past that it might take 7 years. People hoping we would be out of the woods after 3 years were hoping for a miracle. Hugo really inherited a mess from Bergevin.

Hugo are doing a tremendous job to accelerate this and they have exceeded all expectations but we will need another high pick. I see a 5-10 overall pick. Especially if Laine is gone.

Patience... it's a long process. We aren't done yet.

 

[durojean]

Thought they were close to that before Laine injury but now I’m confident bottom 5 for sure, probably in bottom 3.

No second line, bottom 6 is gross.

I’ll go on the record now, they get less points than they did last year.

Rebuild is NO WHERE close to being over.

And it is ok… this year still needed to be hard.

Next year is the year we should become really good.

I just hope it’s not too serious for Reinbacher because next year was supposed to be his real start in the NHL and he need to not lose a year of development at this point.

 

[Habs7631]

Thought they were close to that before Laine injury but now I’m confident bottom 5 for sure, probably in bottom 3.

No second line, bottom 6 is gross.

I’ll go on the record now, they get less points than they did last year.

Rebuild is NO WHERE close to being over.

Could be a blessing in disguise for the long-run. If we’re not gonna make the playoffs might as well get one last top pick to finish this rebuild. What’s the point of finishing in the middle and drafting #13? Why be mid, don’t want to be Minnesota/Islanders/Flyers. Yeah we would have made short-term “progress”, but in the long run adding one of the studs in this upcoming strong draft could make us a bonifade contender in the future. Absolutely disgusting possible top 5 this year (Hagens, Martone, McQueen, Schaefer, Misa).

When life gives you lemons......

 

[FLHabs]

I know some of us will talk about Martone or Hagens, but another top 5 pick, while good on paper, would be really bad for the development of this team. Forget the forever high picks, I want to see progress, I want to watch meaningful hockey. Losing constantly 4 years in a row is BAD for development

 

[austin316]

I voted “C”. Some nice pieces in place, but they are mainly complimentary pieces. Still no elite talent on this roster, and Reinbacher at 5 sure looks like a swing and a miss. That sets the rebuild back when you miss on a top 5 pick like we did.

Flashbacks to KK over Tkachuk.

 

[Jabba11]

I voted “C”. Some nice pieces in place, but they are mainly complimentary pieces. Still no elite talent on this roster, and Reinbacher at 5 sure looks like a swing and a miss. That sets the rebuild back when you miss on a top 5 pick like we did.

Flashbacks to KK over Tkachuk.

Demidov is not complimentary. He's elite.

 

[Monsieur Miz]

Tonight game and seeing Michkov look like a beast = pain.

 

[Ozmodiar]

A successful rebuild will have enough draft picks to have redundancy / failover. They won’t all be home runs.

 

[themilosh]

A successful rebuild will have enough draft picks to have redundancy / failover. They won’t all be home runs.

No but i dont think ANY team has a "redundancy" in their top 6. It's not like this happened to Dvo... Dach is still a massive ? When it comes to his health, now he's losing a stud winger which was suppose to teach us about what we "could" have..
It's the information that we lose is what stings... i get it, injuries happen.. it's just we cannot truly answer an important equation to test our core..

Like not even 30ish games... nothing.

 

[SOLR]

Tonight game and seeing Michkov look like a beast = pain.

I think we'll be a lot more sorry to have missed on Leonard than Michkov with Reinbacher. But I still like Rein, don't think this injury is serious, looks like a muscle pull of some kind.

 

[HabsCowboysOwn]

Next step is another bottom 5 finish and hopefully drafting the final piece of our top 6.

 

[dinodebino]

If this team falls bottom 5, some on the team will lose faith in the process. And what happened to Buffalo might start to happen here.
This young core was sold a plan. They don’t give two shits about drafting high. They want to play meaningfull games in March-April. If it ain’t happening this season, grumbling will start