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Worst case Josh Anderson? Best case Tkachuck?

I think Mailloux was saved abit by the bigger scandal from 2018 hockey canada being revealed. Media forgot about him because the other story was so much bigger.

Like Hannibal was fond of saying - I love it when a plan works out!

I have no issue with that Galchenyuk pick. I do have issue with him being rushed in during the lockout year given how much time he missed due to injuries in junior. It’s too bad Forsberg is gone as considered a top 5 pick at the beginning of that year fell back so far during that year, as I think he’s probably the best player from that draft. but the KK pick was a pick by need. I wanted Tkachuk, a d if not him, Hughes. Eithernof those two guys had much higher floors and ceilings than KK. Even after they messed up the pick, they compounded their mistake by rushing him. It was also stupid to bring in a 17 year old to fill a hole that MB couldn’t address in his first 5 years on the job.

There is a big difference in saying that Mailloux is more likely to get traded than Reinbacher and saying “this management group is afraid of him succeeding.” You’re basically saying they want Mailloux to fail - which also means that even if they are more inclined to trade him, they would get a lower value for him. I can even buy into the arguement that they aren’t sure he is mentally strong enough for the market, given his history and the media pressure in Montreal. But today they are afraid of him succeeding???? That’s just bunk! I think it’s lite likely we move a LD than a RD, unless it’s to fill the big hole in our top 6 - we are desperately in need of a goal scorer. frankly, as I’ve said many times over the past year, my preference would have have been to take Leonard or Michkov last year in a forward heavy draft, while this draft. I think the quality of D available is much higher this year. But at least I can buy into their plan and understand the reasoning - unlike the previous guy, who said Sergechev was the future D man, and than traded him for a basket case winger, while also letting Markov go because he didn’t want to give him a 2 yr deal: only to sign a useless Alzner for 3 or 4 years!

good question from watching the NHL games, some AHL games and reading and listening as many news on the Habs as I can. and I do not hate this management team, I did not say anything negative about them when talking about Mailloux. I just said that I see him as the one being traded instead of Reinbacher like someone else was posting because I do not believe the organization is convinced they should keep him due to his past history.

Depends on the draft. Kk was the wrong pick cause after him we have Hughes, Tkachuk, Dobson, Boucher, etc. Galchenyuk... you only have Rielly who is any good. The draft kinda sucked.

Carolina has lost all three games so far, all by a single goal. Trochek has 2g+4a. A brilliant move by Waddell to sign Kotkaniemi to a $5M contract and letting Trochek walk.

There is a difference between taking a risk on a player at 16 and 3. If you are picking at 3, you need to get the pick right.

Yes, always .5, for some reason some people think that if you get 10 heads in the row that the probability of getting tails on the next flip is greater than .5 but it's not. The term for that is called gambler's fallacy.

Where do you come up with this nonsense?? Still don’t get your hate for the mgmt group. They actually have plan, unlike their predecessor whose plan was hope that Carey Price is healthy enough to get them into the playoffs and than anything can happen.

Or he was never going to be more than he is. An nhler but a 3rd 4th liner. Maybe development, maybe not.

It's definitely not a system update, we haven't done one in a while. I use Firefox and don't see any difference in options/functionality. Have there been any system updates on Edge lately? Can you still see the normal toolbar where you'd change the size/colour/etc? Or is it when you click on it, nothing happens? If it's the latter, it's probably a browser setting. For bolding/italics/underline, there's always the keyboard shortcut (ctrl-b, ctrl-i, ctrl-u) that should work in a pinch.

I think he could play his way onto the fourth line. Whether that's best for his development is another question. A bit surprised he signed a two-year deal though. I guess that gives him a bit of security if Montreal elects not to sign him but I was expecting a one-year agreement.

That, and money. Sounds like Green is coming in really close to the bottom for head coaching salaries whereas Berube is likely better positioned to be closer to the top ten.

Thanks for adding context to his stats. If hockey IQ is a question then I don’t think it fits a HuGo type player. I remember Hughes taking about how important hockey IQ is to him.

Depending on the destination, their local media may not be so laser focused on "investigative journalism" for hockey.

His passing is an issue in this chart. He makes a high volume of passes to the slot but with very little success in doing so. Tends to line up.with those questioning his hockey IQ. The other thing to remember is that this chart is 11 games tracked. Just with the volume of junior games, they are never as good as NHL tracking which is every game. (They areng bad but you need a grain of salt with them.

Ottawa hired Travis Green. Rumor was Berube wanted to wait and see what other jobs were available and didnt want to sign anything with ottawa right away and then ottawa moved on.

Isn't he the frontrunner for Ottawa?

I do believe that Caufield was the player they wanted. That does not mean it was a no risk pick. KK was also the player they wanted. Many times the player they wanted fails to develop. Sure they were happy to pick Cole, but like any player it was a risk. Now it has paid off, there is no need to trade him away to bet on another prospect. Continually upping your bet will lead to a bust in the end.

My feeling is that if we trade Mailloux, his value to a new team will be reduced since the team taking him will be asked a lot off questions. Montreal has already had to deal with this, when we drafted him. Trading him now means we paid a price without gaining anything. We might trade him if he is part of some irresistible deal. However, I think he has significantly more value to us than any other team due to his history.

If drafted we can be sure the Habs doctors were very thorough. I agree with you The player himself looks perfect for what we need. He sounds like Slafkovsky in size and style and it would be nice to have two Slafkovskys

Yes but the odds of getting 3 heads in a row, before you throw the first one are .5 x .5 x .5 = 12.5%

$40M is pretty good money. Even if he gets bought out this summer he'll have made over $20M by the age of 24, I think that's better than "some". 🙂