I think it would be a mistake. RD is already a hole. We don't need to make it bigger. Our future top 6 is pretty much set and we have two 3rd line guys in Newhook and Roy (plus future Hage) that can step up for injuries.
Can’t argue with your position. Hughes is way too smart to assume a ‘never’ position on any matter. If Gretzky can be traded, any player is marketable. It all depends on the return. And the prevailing circumstances.
I do not think this would be right approach. We need to implement our young D to first team. Guhle is the only fully established young D in NHL and he still only has 114 games under his belt. Hutson, Barron, Xhekaj, Struble, Reinbacher, Mailloux, they all need to gain NHL experience ASAP if we really want to be a contender in 2-3 years.
Made no sense whatsoever, but I hope he got a better contract out of pretending it could happen.
One less shiny new toy for Habs fans to fantasize about.
I wouldn't say the toy is shiny at this point, more like beat up and bruised and for sale for 50 cents at your local flea market
To be fair, I think the biggest issue is t necessarily the pick but the development of the player once drafted. There’s been a material shift since HuGo came in on how they develop their prospects, particularly with where and how they play. We saw it with Caufield, Slaf, Roy, Guhle, Xhekaj etc. where they take mucu more care in making sure they’re put in a position to succeed that tailored to each player.
I was in the Zadina crowd. Taught me not to put so much into WJC
His linemate at the WJC has done pretty well. Maybe he made Zadina look better than he was.
Wouldn't be awesome if we convinced a certain other team that he's very good, and therefor they need to trade us Crosby?
You are consufing WJC and World Championship. Kapanen was very good against pro players incl. NHLers.So.. you're now hoping for Kapanen?
Wouldn't be awesome if we convinced a certain other team that he's very good, and therefor they need to trade us Crosby?
Crosby be UFA if he gets here I imagine. Wouldn't want to be the GM in Pitt who traded CrosbyWouldn't be awesome if we convinced a certain other team that he's very good, and therefor they need to trade us Crosby?
The only problem I see with that is there are a couple of players who will still be under contract that you've neglected to mention.
Nope, still the same issue. Isolated event stats don't make a player.
Well you have a good point, except the GM isn't the decider in this case. Sid decides.
The WJC is fine as long as you aren't ignoring everything else.
If we want to be honest Zadina was not great at the u20. He played a total of 12 u20 games and did 9 points. That's pretty meh. Don't remember him being very impressive either. Maybe my mind is playing trick always hard to remember clearly the past but i'd venture to say Mesar looked almost as good as Zadina at the u20.
The first year yeah sort of. But Zadina only scored goals and personally i'm always skeptical of the whole i'm Brian Savage and i can only score goals thing. If there's one thing i learned throughout the years watching hockey is that scoring goals and not assisting plays à la Brian Savage or vice versa à la David Desharnais is never sustainable long term unless you are very very good at it like Ovechkin, Bure, Thornton since NHL teams will quickly adjust, You have to be able to do both in some sort of capacity at the NHL level.
