Montreal had really bad drafting from 2008 to 2017 (10 drafts), with pretty much only that to show for :
Galchenyuk 3rd OA pick, Sergachev 9th OA pick, Lehkonen 2nd round, Gallagher 5th round, Jake Evans 7th round
Started to be better in 2018 with Harris, Romanov, Ylonen and Kotkaniemi (even if disappointing vs draft position). In 2019 : Caufield, Struble, RHP
That's when he did his most damaging work. The Debrincat, Chychrun and Talbot trades come to mind. Sacrificing the entire future for players on expiring deals. Well before this team was ready to compete. You make those tradess to push your team over the top. When they are close, not when you're a lottery team. On top of that 2 of them were redundant players with the current roster.
There is no point he was ever good at his job. There was never a stretch of lots of good moves in a row.
All time bad GM. I called it a long time ago. Brutal for a fanbase that deserved better.
Macewen should simply just get cut. Not complicated. The way I see it he has 2 games to play a wildly physical game and he has to win atleast 1 fight.
I'd like to see Ostapchuk drop em here.
It made absolutely no sense to "rush" as there was not a Damocles sword over his head at that moment. Maybe he got too relax and over-confident?
He was already lucky that we had a future despite the Zibanejad and Duchene fiascos, plus Stone and Hoffman not bringing back anything of note (plus the Tyler Boucher pick)... We were already at a point where we couldn't afford to sacrifice these high 1st round picks and these 2nds
Miraculously, we still have a chance to do something, which shows that we could have been an absolute WAGON had we had competent management all those years.
Dorion single handily ruined my fan experience for years. Hopefully Staios and co can right the ship.
We need MacEwan to beat the brakes of Xhekaj the next time we face Montreal.
Let's be brutally honest, the only guy in the whole organization who could take on Xhekaj is Brady Tkachuk.
