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The state of the Habs Rebuild - The Next step
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Mrb1p
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Hmmm is the center better than Primeau?
Kobe Armstrong
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He’ll be 35 by the time we’re ready to compete anyway, surely he will have lost a step
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That's trueHe’ll be 35 by the time we’re ready to compete anyway, surely he will have lost a step
He’ll be 35 by the time we’re ready to compete anyway, surely he will have lost a step
With 3+ rings on his finger from our cup wins in his late 20's, I'm sure he'll be fine with slotting into a 3C role after the post dynasty re-tool
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It was also a different era and different hockey system. Players like Hull who had some defensive weakness (or lazyness) could not hurt the team as much as today. It's like the Oilers of the 80's, they opened the offensive machine as much as it was possible, example other teams would score 5 goals vs them but Oiler would score 7. They were winning that kind of game anyway. And then Lemaire introduced the trap with the Devils and there was no room for all this festival of offence. It's like the animal life, the cobra is a kind of king over all the animals until he meet the mangusta.Exactly. And he was a far worse defensive player than Caufield is.
Now, he also scored 80 goals….I don’t expect that from CC.
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Cmon, Hull is top 5 all time, CC is yet to score 30 in season. They are not the same league.
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Lafleurs Guy
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It doesn’t matter. Goals determine the winners and losers of hockey games. Goalscoring is the single most valuable contribution a skater can make. Caufield has shown he can score at a rate that’s up with the best in the league.
Say it’s a new league all you wish, at the end of the day teams will always need goalscorers. Caufield has the potential to be among the best. That’s why he’s AA.
Lafleurs Guy
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Don’t avoid the point.
Hull was a one way player if ever there was one. He was also a Hart winner and HOFer. Why? Because he scored goals. It’s all he did but it didn’t matter.
Cc is better defensive player than Hull ever was already. He’s not going to score 80 goals but he’s got the potential to be a top ten goalscorer.
That doesn’t mean he will. But the potential is there.
LaP
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Not sure if you argument Hull would not be an elite player today but if so i personally i think it's silly to argument Hull would not be an impactful player today.
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BLONG7
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Did you miss........Becoming?? Becoming a 200ft player. He is among the elite goal scorers this season, will he continue?? Maybe.......maybe not.
Many many before him have not been elite, or complete either, and made it to the HOF.
You are nit picking one of our stars.............and he is all of what? 23 years old??
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I would take Hull over Caufield. Hull a machine to score goals, a bit like Ovy. And his father too.
But sure Hull would be one of the top players today. And I'm very happy we have Caufield, he's a snyper, he sees plays on the ice before they happen, his hockey IQ is very high. He's one major piece of the core. But we need another center, equal or better than Suzuki. And a top RH D, maybe Rein will fill that spot, once his injury is gone and few years to adapt, get stronger and become a real grown up man.
