alfredoh2009

I’ll stop posting on this, since my point doesn’t make it across. But I e last time: “I hope HughGort stops trading their first and second draft picks starting next season now that most of the rebuild seems done. The risk having a dip in high-end prospects if they do not change strategy”

he is a bulldog in défense but seems less quick and agile on skates than Arber. 7D should be ok

If you read my post, you’ll see that I am talking about the future and the need to reverse the trend of trading top picks too aggressively. If I remember correctly, teams want one or two players from each draft year to become part of their core to keep a salary cap balance. That is what I said. I was not criticizing moves up to now; quite the contrary

I also cringe when I see #21 being worn

I was hoping the same, Sharks and Ducks were below the floor a couple of days ago. I just couldn't come up any trade proposal that made sense to me.. oh, well

top-10 left-handed UFA forwards still unsigned according to Puckpedia: * Pius Suter is still there 🙊 * Antony Beauvillier is still there 🙉 * Pat Maroon is still there 🙈 (retired) Oh! the suspense is killing me!

it is hard to predict trades, but the ELC details and one-way contracts show how the organization values one player vs another. Also, it was obvious to me Mailloux would be traded. I was surprised aboout Heineman. It was also obvious he was valued more than other wingers in the system. From an asset management perspective, if Dach and Newhook move to the wings he would be a good trade chip. I just thought they may trade Newhook instead.

I'll look it up later, there is probably a video of it on-line.

I did that at the beginning, but those analysis evaluate the players individually and not from a depth chart point of view. For example, HughGort made an effort to trade for players from the 2019 draft to plug holes in the Habs depth chart. Also, those prospect pool analysis do not take into account contract length and when the player may be ready to start playing in the NHL. that is why I track ELC as a first measure and 200 professional games next. RHP, for example, had an ELC when the Habs had a shallow pool but now he is not in the cards anymore. Mete was teh same, Clague, etc. that 2010 list was not very deep. Harris was near the top and no one was sure how good Strubel may become. Primeau was the only goaltender with any NHL potential. I still have the charts for the whole MB/TT era, but I moved away from it and created a new tracking chart only for the HughGort0-era talent pool.

on the sports news (RDS or TVA) one reporter reported that HughGort said that (paraphrasing from french) "the days of Newhook at center were numbered", or "in the past". did anyone else catch that? that would either mean Kapanen or Beck will have a chance to start at center or that they are still planning a trade for a 2C

I am not disagreeing, just stating that the whole point of doing a reconstruction is to get close (and win) to a Stanley cup; lots a good work has been done, some additional work is necessary. subtracting the elite goaltending of Price and significantly improving the goal scoring capability can be judged to having a team at similar "bubble team" level from a few years back. Habs need a top-2 center and a PK specialist to become contenders.

the team is definitely better. Not a cup contender yet

and two 1st round picks

hum?! I was just showing an example from a few years back to see how that draft crop developed based on where they were drafted. I agree that the current management has done a much better job developing players, notably by skipping the AHL.

On Hutson, he had a 1% chance to become an elite player and it seems like he is on his way to meet those odds. He was passed on by many teams (some twice) and the Habs took a chance. For Florida, to answer I would need to do an analysis for each draft year going back maybe 6 to 8 years to see how they used their draft capital to build a cup winning team. I am not going to do that, but you could do it just by using the method I shared. I have been doing this for the Habs for years and for my needs, I am really happy with this tracking sheet.