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No one laughed the last seventeen times you made the joke.

My question was "So he scores at a good level, his defence is excellent. Tell me again why he can't be a second line centre on a good team?"

The only time hes had really low minutes was last year in playoffs. In regular season he averaged over 12 minutes a game. Remember that khl game day roster is 22 instead of 20. They have 8.defence instead of 6... playing 4 pairings.

As far as point 15, that sound asinine. By the time the trade was made, it was already clear the Drouin was picked too early - Jones and monohon proved they were clearly the better picks. Rationalizing that in the 2013 Drouin was a better prospect and trading the guy considered the second best dman in his draft class when Drouin hadn’t planned out is just stupid. Even more so, considering the hole we had on LD.

Um... no one is saying the team that missed the playoffs 4 out of 5 years is good. What im saying is that from 2008 when they had the most points in the eastern conference... to 2017 when they again had over 100 points and won the division... they were more than a bubble team. 2 runs to the final 4... multiple seasons over 100 points. Multiple seasons finishing atop the division. Thats a decade of not being a bubble team. At the end of it... in 2018 they crashed and have to rebuild... just like the sharks have crashed now and are gonna need a rebuild too. There are cycles... it happens to every one, even multi time cup champs (who yes were better than montreal and san jose) in chicago and LAK. They are going into down periods now. Eventually pittsburgh and washington will too.

Winning the division multiple times in a stretch where they also went to.the final 4 twice is a blip. But the blues sneaking into the playoffs after missing the playoffs the previous season is the kind of true contention to strive for? Or the sharks making one cup final and constantly failing in the playoffs. The preds making one cup final out of 8th spot. One other final four and other years failing to win a round? Guess thats what you get when you look at the habs with glasses that suggest everything they do is wrong...