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  1. As far as I can see, all this discussion about ruining players by rushing them into the NHL is just conformation bias. Every player who doesn't spend time in the minors and then doesn't meet expectations is declared to have been ruined by being rushed. Maybe these guys were just destined to fail. How do we know that players who don't meet expectations after years in the minors weren't ruined by being denied the opportunity to play early in the NHL? Even players like Chara, Thornton, and Carey Price who succeed after being "rushed" are ignored in the analysis. Maybe some of these players only succeeded because they were "rushed".
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  2. Philly wins and the Habs are back in 5th place in the lottery odds. 7 points off of 3rd!
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  3. The owners give the marching orders through the board of governors and Bettman carries those out. If they werent happy with what he was doing, he wouldnt have been commish this long. Theyd fire him and get someone else. 90% of his job is to take the boos and the heat from the fans instead of the owners getting it. As for viewership... tv ratings are down but streaming is up. Its cord cutters and seen with every tv property... non sports stuff is even worse.
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  4. If you think that french media coddles Drouin just shows you dont watch or listen to french media. They are harder on him than the English media.
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  5. Yes. Not sure why everyone dosent know this or see him the same. He is not dictating to the owners what to do, simply a spokesman for the billionaire group he works for.
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  6. Historically, a lot of it has been wishful thinking (Galy) and/or a need for a PR sugar high. (Remember all the breathless talk around Mete?) It’s fine to say that “it’s player dependent,” but that leaves the window open for teams to kid themselves, like we did with Galchenyuk. “Well, this guy is special.” No he wasn’t. Even the great Carey Price was almost destroyed by being thrown into the deep end and left to sink or swim. So my view has been consistent: we should err on the side of letting guys marinade in the A. On the other hand, Hughes has a massive belief in MSL and the developmental merits of the NHL staff. I think that’s a factor with this particular management group. https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/qa-canadiens-gm-kent-hughes-on-evolving-plans-injuries-and-the-patience-of-fans/ Time will tell - I like the coaches - but the early returns are not incredibly promising. Players who surpassed expectations, like Wifi and Guhle, have been injured; and there may be a valid correlation between youthful inexperience and the tendency to get hurt. Meanwhile, Slaf did nothing notable despite being handed an unearned slot - shades of KK - and now he too is hurt. Before he went down for good we repeatedly saw him putting himself in vulnerable positions. Taking an 18 year old who has never played on North American ice and throwing him into the NHL suggests that this group isn’t much different from the Houle/Gainey/Bergevin era. They may have a different rationale (“MSL is magic!”) but the pattern is the same. I don’t like it. But hopefully Hugo is right and I am wrong.
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