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Habs have no choice I guess; but, to play out the last 64games of season.

Not a fan of this at all. Six games in the minors - several of which were passable but mediocre - is not enough for him to magically have fixed everything they wanted him to work on. This is a desperation move, plain and simple. And once again, Laurent Dauphin - who has been Laval's best player by a significant margin this season - gets overlooked.

If we, random internet people, could pluck a GM out of the air, we may be more than just random internet people. I don't think anyone here is plugged in to the hockey executive world, and probably much less the french hockey executive world. As far as trading/drafting lower, you wouldn't have to trade as much if you could internally develop. Generally on a contending roster, you're filling in the complementary pieces at the trade deadline more than doing roster shakeups. At some point, 10 years of swings and misses at draft picks, and be unable to land one impact player out of 77 draft picks points to either poor scouting or poor development. I'll even dial it back and say one top 6 forward (Caufield may eventually be that, so 1 top 6 forward in 77 picks, 1 top 4 dman in Romanov). This isn't a case of overlooking players and revisionist history. This is a case of where's the beef?