Craig Button: "Lane Hutson is going to need Reinbacher!"
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- We talked to the one and only Craig Button after the Habs draft Austrian defenceman David Reinbacher 5th overall at the 2023 NHL Draft. What are your thoughts on the Habs picking Reinbacher?
If the rest of the fanbase want to throw Hughes under the bus after making some amazing trades and signings, so be it, but I personally have tons of faith in his vision of rebuilding the Habs into a Stanley Cup contender. I think Reinbacher was a good acquisition for the Habs, my only complaint is that we could have traded down for him instead of wasting the #5 pick. Who knows, maybe they even tried to do that but it turned out to be more complicated than expected with the Coyotes potentially interested in him. In that case it was the correct decision to pick Reinbacher at fifth.
Also, I do believe that we dodged a bullet in Michkov and his three year contract with SKA is honestly just one of many red flags. He doesn't speak English, he's undersized, many credible sources are telling us that he has attitude problems and that he told certain teams in draft interviews he would not play for them... the list just goes on and on. No doubt that he is an incredibly talented player and will most likely be a 40-50 goal scorer in the NHL but I don't see him as a player who would take the Habs to a Cup victory, especially when we already have an undersized player in Cole Caufield in the top six and with Lane Hutson coming up in our D. Stats don't lie, size wins cups. We don't want to become the new Leafs with players putting up numbers in the regular season and then disappearing in the playoffs.
Most habs fans are dumb and bipolar...
I agree and like your analysis. I too am of the mind that we should continue to trust Hughes and his administration and know that he has a long-term winning plan for the habs. I don't want just a good team during the regular seasons, I want a great playoff hockey team that will work hard to win the cup. 👍
They couldn't trade down because many teams right behind them, including the coyotes, wanted reinbacher. Many fans talk about trading down but it is notoriously difficult to do. That's why you never see them
@@Whoamobile1 Exactly, I don't mind getting a superstar on my team but I'd much rather win a cup. Look what Vegas just did! And hey who knows, maybe Michkov will prove me wrong and lead the Flyers to a cup win within five years meanwhile Reinbacher is a complete bust, you never know how these young kids will develop. However, right now I feel confident with our pick and that top 4 D core with Reinbacher, Hutson, Guhle and Mailloux looks stupid good.
@@matthewcassar4915 That is true, good point.
After analyzing the draft and getting over my first impressions, I realized Montreal planned this. At pick number 5, they drafted the best player available, and he was their unanimous pick. He was the player they wanted.
People will come to their senses with time and regret their negativity. David Reinbacher is an amazing young man.
Best player available was Reinbacher ? In what world are you living in lol
Last time I heard a take from Button he said the Habs wouldn’t win a single game against the leafs in the playoffs, does make me feel much better about this pick
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Don't hold that against him. We have to fight political correctness. I like when commentators get wet. After this statement Button made self-mockery and it was very funny. I sometimes agree with him but not always. Long live diverse opinions.
@@danielmontreal007 absolutely, experts can also be wrong sometimes
You last heard him 3 years ago and then decided to listen to him now?
Ohhhhh no you’re just a troll......
Last time I heard a take from Button was: Florida don’t stand a chance against Vegas.
More recent, more accurate and more important.
@@jogendron6320 i meant to say "doesnt make me feel much better" because after his Montreal vs Toronto take i dont take anything he says serious anymore
I was starting to feel better about the pick before he said Adam Larsson as a comparison 😭
yeah. I don't care for adam Larson. I was hoping to here Mortiz Seider or Charlie McCavoy
Comparisons compare styles of play not talent. He’s gonna play like Larsson he didn’t say he’s gonna be Larson.
Larsson is a great stay at home defenceman. Not every defenceman has to be all offense
@@renegademan83people act like "Markov" type of players are some AHL Bums😭😭
Don't let that comparison discourage you. Reinbacher did better in the Swiss league than Roman Josi did at the same age and has similar analytics to Evan Bouchard or Rasmus Dahlin in their draft year. The guy is most likely going to be at least a top pairing D-Man.
I like how your interviews are getting more proffesional
Thank you! I think we just adapt to who we’re talking to
@@HFTVSportsOfficial yes!
People that think Reinbacher was an off the board pick didn’t inform themselves very well before the draft. A LOT of experts predicted them picking Reinbacher
Let's see in a few years how Reinbacher develops, who know's how good he could be. Remember when Detroit drafted Seider, every fan was disappointed. They are definitely things we don't know that led MTL to not picking Mitchkov. Let's trust our management for once. Cheers y'all
I think there are too many questions and uncertainties surrounding Michkov. Hughes said they didn't get the chance of seeing him play (live) in the last year. It's not a very good idea to draft players you don't see. The Habs did good picking Reinbacher under these circumstances.
@@thebestoffools well said
@@callmedaggyit’s been upsetting how many people want him to be fired like he hasn’t been 10 times better than Marc Bergevin. Bro literally traded for the pick and drafted Hutson and got Dach in the same draft. He hired MSL which was a HUGE risk and look how it paid off for Caufield, and speaking of him, he signed Caufield to a fantastic deal. Is the team great and going to be great next year? No, but he’s got some really good young pieces on the way. So many people just see the points from Newhook and forget how good he was in his draft year, he was close to a top 10 pick but slipped. Even then got put on the third line with no power play time and less than 14 minutes a night for Colorado.
They should have chosen Leonard not Michkov, and DEFINITELY NOT REINBACHER at 5. 🤮🤮🤮
Craig is amazing. Good interview.
Anyone else see reinbacher walk right by them at 1:33 lmao
so much respect for Craig for that conversation!
LOL 🤮
It was very solid!
Arizona passed on Michkov too. I feel that justifies the Habs in not taking him at 5th.
Arizona drafted a defenceman at 6th, which suggests to me that they would have taken Reinbacher at 6th if we hadn't.
Since when Arizona is the justification?
Did they do any good lately?
I guess Habs are a little better with one Cup in 30 years!!!
Comparing Montreal to Arizona is definitely not a good thing lol. Arizona is a joke around the league both on and off the ice. Philly seemed very happy to be drafting Michkov so yeah... The honest truth, Hughes wasn't willing to play it risky for the better player and went for the safe ''good'' pick.
Mitchkov told Arizona he wouldn’t play for them. Probably a big reason Hughes didn’t want him either. With a lot of previous question marks one glimmer of a bad attitude or ego is a reason to pass on him at that point
@@jogendron6320 I don't think you got his point. I think he was referencing Arizona as an organization that would be perfectly fine to wait 3 years on Matvei and are desperate for this so called offensive juggernaut and even they passed on him.
The fact that button likes this pick confirms that it was a terrible selection.
solid interview
I love the hockey stick mic!
Great interview. Here's a tip - The silent nod. Not a dig at all!! love you guys.
Yeah my bad I realized it too I never do that, low sleep 😂
I respect what you guys are doing and understand why you focus so much on the top player. The 1st round the flashy pick. But before you start to criticizes you need to educate yourself on the habs prospect pool. You didn’t see to keen on Lane even tho he was the best D-Man in the NCAA this year and you don’t know about Joshua Roy.
All I said was fans were disappointed, I didn’t say I knew more than anyone. It’s not because I’m asking certain questions that I’m also on that same train of thought, I’m asking questions that parts of the fanbase had last night. In fact I’d say I agree with most of what Craig said and made me think of things I hadn’t thought of. And yes, Of course I know about Josh Roy, but is Josh Roy gonna be playing 1st line next year or the year after? I’m not convinced on him being the missing piece for the Suzuki line
@@HFTVSportsOfficial like I said maybe now what I would’ve said. But still got a lot of love your you guys❤️. Bringing a strong light to the habs fan base
What a mind, what a man!
You got clam down!! The Habs d core will be the best in the league in a couple of years. David reinbacher was a great pick !
If the naysayers don't like who was drafted, maybe they should become managers or scouts. Good luck there. I'm lucky enough to see them first hand hoisting that cup several times. It's a different league now, see how awesome the leafs and oilers were in the playoffs with all those forwards and scoring.
Meh
dude this is SO cool you guys got craig, did ya just walk up to him and ask? how did this go down?!?!?
Honestly we walked up to him and asked him if he wanted to talk about the pick, and he really gladly accepted and exchanged contact info. Very, very classy guy.
@@HFTVSportsOfficial so cool. Its beneficial for him too! Crossing over mediums.
I don’t feel like you’re really listening to what he saying.
You mention PLD, drafting a Centre wouldn’t replace PLD, because that Center won’t be nhl ready until 3 years from now.
You also mention a Montreal needing wingers, and that couldn’t be further from the truth. They have Newhook, Dach, Caufield, Gallagher, Anderson, Armia, Juraj, Slavkovski,
Wingers can be found later in the draft, centres and defenceman of the most important things to draft early.
You just name players and think they have wingers lmao
Dach is a center first and always injured. Caufield needs a bandaid too.
Gallagher is pretty much done.
Anderson ditto.
Armia is meh.
Slav Juraj and Newhook are not proven.
Easy to just put names there and think they will win lol
They really sucked last few years with these wingers!
Joshua Roy
Emil Heineman
Sean Farrell
Jesse Ylonen
Luke Tuch (thats a long shot)
We have Some prospects on the wing, but center and RH dman are the most harder position to fill (sorry for my english)
@@jogendron6320 Dach is 38% on the draw…. He’s not a Center
It's cool that Button takes time for a small CZcamsr.
Craig is one of the nicest guys in the game, a pleasure to talk to.
Pick the best players available, develop them and if you need to address needs, you can always trade those players for other NHL proven players... am i missing something here?
Yeah, who was better? And dont say Michkov….
@@l.a.w.5738 Michkov
@@l.a.w.5738 Leonard, Michkov, Benson, I could go on...
Most likely Yotes would have drafted Reinbacher if Habs taken Mitchkov or Leonard
Words of wisdom from Mr. Button.
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nice to hear someone who doesn't have his hair on fire and freaking out
You never draft on needs.
Yeah I generally agree with that. I think Reinbacher will be a good player in the NHL. I don't agree with the pick but he is also a safe pick that almost certain to be a good NHL player. When great was on the table why settle for good, but good is still good.
He will be good and he will be a valuable trade asset for sure. Even if he is a safe pick. Better than to gamble for a potential great pick that will be eligible in 2027 earliest…
In the end of the day, Montreal picked players like Slaf and Reinbacher that given a typical draft class, should be going a lot lower than #1 and #5. Two years into our rebuild, having such high picks with significant magnitude and value those picks bring, the Habs didn't select franchise altering players. You can like Reinbacher and Slaf as players and like their characters and still think Montreal's drafting is utterly ridiculous. Two years in and we still don't have a franchise player and our core is just meh. I agree with Button, you dont look at things in isolation but scouring around the league and our division rival, their young core players are just better. Reinbacher is a fine player but when you see that Buffalo has Powers and Dahlin on top of all their forwards, when you see Ottawa with Stutzle and Tkachuk, Toronto with Marner and Matthews, Tampa with Stamkos and Hedman as their 2 highest picks in their rebuilds and Montreal comes out of it with Slaf and David, it's just uninspiring
very well said!!!!!
I understand where you come from with the lack of franchise players drafted in the last 2 drafts. But when you refer to Ottawa with Stutzle and Tkachuk. Aren't Suzuki and Caufield just as good or better? Suzuki projected to be one of the best two way forwards in the game and Caufield projected to be a constant 40-50 goals player. Let's not forget that! If they're not franchise players they gotta be really close to it! And let's not forget Dach too who still has a lot of upside to show, who knows what his ceiling really is. But what really impresses me with the young core is the depth we have
@@rocky_hockey6447 no, I don't think you can objectively think Cole and Suzuki are better than Stutzle and Tkachuk given the production we saw from those 2 last year. Dach, Suzuki and Cole are good, but there are plenty of good players in the league, what Montreal has lacked for nearly 30 years is that ppg player, that true #1 center, true talent that you can build around. Dach, Suzuki and Caufield ideally would be complementary pieces. Just based on how we've drafted and who we have, I have my doubts we can overtake some of the other good young teams. Unless we get lucky and select top 3 in the next 2 drafts, I see us building the same exact flawed team we've been accustomed to since forever. That #1 and #5 pick should have yielded those franchise altering guys, not players that are routinely selected in the mid first round.
What?
@@ren2871 I have to disagree somewhat with the Cole and Nick statement. I do think they will be superstars in this league. They have specific attributes that are among the best in the league like I've mentioned. Maybe not top 5 or top 10 players overall but Tkachuk and Stutzle aren't either in my opinion. It's debatable i guess. For Slaf and Reinbacher i know they aren't sexy picks and probably won't be among the best NHL players one day. But when you look at all the recent stanley cup champions the depth of overall talent outweighs the need for a superstar franchise player. And I do think they will become really solid NHL players. And we have a lot of those guys right now. And maybe there's one in the whole group that has higher upside that we don't know yet. I would have picked Michkov personally if it was my decision. But they probably know something that we don't. And I do not believe that Leonard, Benson or whoever has better upside than Reinbacher.
“We need a winger; we have Suzuki, we have Slaf, who’s the guy that goes with them…?”
I don’t know, I’m no expert, but a guy named Cole Caufield maybe…? I would have loved to get a high scoring winger too, but that question was ridiculous
Habs fans' reactions have been a joke. It really drives home the point of how toxic our fanbase can be. Show the kid some respect, and stop acting like you have inside information on Michkov. Vast majority of people upset are only repeating what others have said about Michkov. Clowns.
Maybe the reason the vast majority of people who are upset are saying the same things is because they're true, that ever cross your feeble mind? How the fuck do u know who has seen Michkov play? Also a LOT of people didnt want Michkov, like myself, I wanted Ryan Leonard. If u dont agree Leonard is the better pick, i suggest u watch some of his highlights, the guy is a stud. He is sooo much fun to watch. I have nothing against Reinbacher, nothing at all, he just shouldn't have been chosen so early, and the Habs NEED scoring. Right now they're relying on Caufield, (who hopefully can get more than 40 games in, Dach, not a huge scorer, and Suzuki, again a 25-30 goal guy). BUT WE GOT GOOD D!!! lol. I cant remember when the last time we've had more then 4 guys break the 20 goal mark, and thats just sad, for a team like the Habs. U need a good balance of both, and we dont have that, not even close, we cant compete with 75% of the teams in the league offensively right now, and that isn't gonna change anytime soon. So be prepared to finish just out of the playoffs AGAIN, but not low enuf to get a good pick, AGAIN, typical Habs bull shit. I have been a LOYAL fan for 40 plus years, haven't missed a game in well over a decade, and I try to get to 3 or 4 games in person a year, and it's always the same, they either build around goaltending, or defence, EVERY YEAR, well how's that working for u boys??? Reinbacher will be a fine NHL player, but as I mentioned previously, Habs NEED scoring, and now no one is going to want to come to Montreal now, AGAIN, that they made this pick and 25% of Habs fans are sending this poor kid hate mail, great work Hughes and Gorton... And u Habs fans sending this kid hate mail, should be ashamed of yourselves, send that mail to Kent Hughes and Jeff Gorton, Reinbacher didnt make the 5th overall pick in this years draft, Hughes and Gorton did, so hate them, not Reinbacher, the poor kid. Stop defending the pick because u feel bad for the kid, everyone.
Todd, you are a poor writer. If you were better, perhaps you would be able to afford more than 3 or 4 games per year.
This choice reminds many of the 1980 NHL draft, when the Habs chose Doug Wickenheiser over the great Dennis Savard. ✔️
Wickenheiser was the consensus number 1. Big power forward who had goals and points in a tougher league to score in. No scout had Savard higher at the time. As it happens often Savard had a much better career
In this case Hughes is passing up the consensus best player available at 5 and going with the Big D. Not comparable at all
I wouldnt be surprised if we trade our LD in a package for a top 6 winger. We have a load of defence that we can trade...heck even Matheson could be ship to a contender
Yeah like Sergachev for Drouin. Seems like a great idea!!!!
Definitely will see some LD moves for offensive talent. This guy above is just another internet critic, Hughes is an elite gm he has proved that. He has lots of time to bring in offensive help not just this summer but even the one following through more paths than the draft. Trade or free agency .. lots of time before hand are at prime to get players in before a serious playoff run anyways
Even if it’s not through draft Hughes knows he needs another high end producer In the top 6 . Trade or free agents might be better than the draft as they can possibly get someone fully developed in years to come
@@scottbeattie7518 Another? Who's the first? Caufield? I love him, but hope he can stay healthy.
Is Caufield chopped liver? Slaf won't be playing with Suzuki, unless Caufield is hurt, they are both LW
Not every ranked top 10 will become superstars. Some will be busts. We took the top ranked defenseman.
Not necessarily the top defensemen.
As equal as you say ignored he could be a bust though and you probably already know but a lot of red flags at draft like telling. Arizona he wouldn’t play for them, not standing next to his agent/translator and leaving instead of doing post draft interview and his suit was revolting. Enough said
Craig is "Money" 💸 💰 as commentator 😊
They have lots of good forwards?? Who? Caufield, and Suzuki??? MAYBE Dach, but not really! That matches up great against teams like Toronto, Tampa, Edmonton, and even Chicago now. The best pick was Leonard, and if not him, Michkov. I believe we didnt get any better from this draft, and it was such a deep pool of offence. Habs management REALLY dropped the ball, & that's a huge understatement. I hate listening to people try to justify it, and more and more people are now, because they feel bad for Reinbacher. As so I, he didnt pick himself! This is all on Hughes and Gorton. I guess they are getting to see both sides of the fan base now, it's been all super great til they made this AWFUL pick. It was a SHIT pick, please stop trying to justify it, and please dont tell me how defense is important, I know this, and I dont hate Reinbacher, im sure he will have a fine career. He just isn't who we should have chosen with our 5th pick, they should have at least traded up to 8th or 9th spot (if they HAD to take Reinbacher), guess they didnt see the Kotkaniemi trade... then maybe it would have been SORT OF worth it, but still not really, but would have been better. Anyone who says the Habs need D more than offence right now, hasn't watched the Habs for the last 40 years, they CANT SCORE GOALS. Every time we see Leonard get a nice goal, or Michkov, it's gonna be that same kick in the nuts again, over and over for the next decade and a half, so buckle up Habs fans. And get ready for another year of finishing out of the playoffs, but high enough to not have a good pick, like they seem to do almost every year, and if they DO finish low enough to get a good pick, who knows now if they go that direction?? I lost all faith in this management, that i was so high on. Reinbacher's 3 goals will boost the Habs to stardom im sure... I have nothing against Reinbacher, im sure he will be a fine defensive defenseman, but the Habs NEED scoring. If u look at the team, it's not hard to see they need scoring, I still feel like i got kicked in the nuts, again and again.
button brings up good points. could the habs have used a guy like Ryan Leonard though?
"Nobody saw it coming"... Maybe in your echo chamber, but in others Reinbacher was highly rated and fifth on some lists. Mathias Brunet (La Presse) and Snake Boisvert were happy with this pick (though they would have preferred Michkov) and they also think Ryan Leonard is way overhyped, even predicting the Caps will regret picking him so high! Leonard is limited offensively and benefits from his more talented linemates in their mind. We'll have to wait and see...
Maybe, but on draft day and the days leading up to it, I can tell you the last thing people were talking about was a defenceman. Kent didn’t speak much about Reinbacher, only a handful of times.
@@HFTVSportsOfficial I believe you! 🙂 Guess the people talking were wrong. Sometimes the silent ones are the ones keeping secrets. ;-)
Craig put Martin St-Louis on waver... How does he still have a job?
Goaltender good idea 💡 😊
"We need a winger! We have Suzuki, we have Slaf... Who's the guy going to play with them?" ... Bro. Did something happen to Cole Caufield??? 😭
I honestly meant to say Caufield and I blanked and said Slaf hahaha. But the question does remain, who is THAT winger to play on that line?
Habs would probably have pick michkov if they would pick 6 since arizona would have take reinbacher
So we used a 5th overall pick to act as a crutch for another prospect??
No we used it on a great solid prospect who will make this d core one of the best in the league for years. So go ahead and stfu idiot
Good D make you win. Look at Las Vegas/Edmonton this Spring. If Carlson, Fantini or Smith were available, I think they would have take one of them. But between a good D and Leonard, the good D will have more impact. Eric Faille, a Quebecoishockey player that played with him in Switzeland compare him to Roman Josi. Maybe it s too much expectation, but he meant that from relatively young and unknown when R einbacher joined the club, he ended up driving the Power play. Playing against men. He s mature and smart, stong, fast, good in the too zones. Of course Michvov is interesting, but why would you pick a guy that prefer KHL to NHL? For me it tells what winning in NHL means for him : not much! Russian players are talented, but most of them don't compete hard. Remember the Sotchi olympic games with Ovechkin, Malkin, Kovalchuk, and so many more... They collapsed. Mishkov is small and not very fast, I don't see him as a driving force in the NHL. A good D will play almost 30 minutes in big games while a good forward will play 15 to 20 minutes.
it's been over 30 years since we had a scorer put up 40 goals or 100 points. Born in 95? You've never seen it. You've seen Sheldon surey, Andrie Markov, Subban, Webber, ect. Who have you seen on offense? Max paccoriety? This may turn out great but call a spade a spade, this on face value is a disappointment
"No one saw it coming"... yeah except for Pronman who mocked him to the Habs over and over and over again
What he just described is
PRECISELY
the very definition of
“Drafting by Needs“.
Same happened with
Kotkaniemi instead of Tkachuk.
They never learn.
Boohoo, little boy has his feelings hurt
No he actually described the process of building a team. And when that right hand top defenceman is available, you go for it.
@@Dotngg6050 I know
look at Oilers as an example of what happens if instead of drafting by needs you're drafting the best available player, with special focus on flashy offense at the expense of the D-corp
its a completely different management team, so who exactly is not learning?
KK and David Fisher 2.0. Habs are a joke this will not change anytime soon. Button ranked Reinbacher 12th overall before the draft and now that MTL picks him 5th overall. Reinbacher is a godsend. This guy is just a sellout like the others.
Well, you can find flops in every team! But only if you are ready to search. You might have another agenda.
@@math3342 MTL have flopped 22 of their last 25 first-round picks. You can play ignorant any way you want, friends. This is a fact!
Kent Hughes didn’t draft any of those players. That’s like saying Edmonton sucks since Gretzky left, fuck Gretzky. Lol time will te
You should have interviewed your chair instead.
craige button what a guy you did a good job kids
Here's are a few stats for all u people that are now switching and saying picking Reinbacher was the right pick, and that passing on Leonard or Michkov was the right thing to do.
Here is a list of how many players broke the 20 goal marker for the Canadiens... Let this sink in. Does management not know this?? Do they think RHP is going to solve this??? Or maybe Gally will revert back to 30 goal Gally all of a sudden, just turn back the clock??? Instead of having PLD and Leonard/Michkov, we got Newhook and Reinbacher, they are both fine players, but we need GOALS, and I know we need D, our D core was already coming along really good, and im sure there were some D we could have taken later in the draft, I think we did take a few more, 3 or 4. The pick sucks, and I hate that people are lying to themselves and saying that it's a good pick, that they did the right thing, i dont know, maybe it's therapeutic! (I realize it's done, and some people say there's no point in crying over it, and that's fine. But dont say it's a good pick, let me take that back, it IS a good pick, just not at 5. LOOK AT THIS SHIT...
2022-23 - Three players
2021-22 - TWO players,
2020-21 - ONE player broke the 20 goal mark,
2019-20 - Two players
2018-19 - Three players,
2017-18 - TWO players,
2016-17 - TWO players,
2015-16 - TWO players,
2014-15 - FOUR!!!!! Wooo congrats Habs!!! U are average this year!!
This is sad. 😭
Damn Button think he is going to be good :/ guess we got a flop
Im starting to get over it after the habs took Reinbacker but there is also something i dont understand....
Why would MTL take a Dman when we know the 2024 draft might be stacked with Dmans, we could’ve maybe draft Michkov and then wait the next year or maybe trade for a decent Defender.
Idk man, its just weird.😶
Hughes isn’t worried about the what ifs for next year. He took the best asset available( you could say mitchkov but everyone admits there is. Question marks). He took what he felt like was a sure thing and highest value at that pick . I like the excitement of a gamble too but if it didn’t pay off then what… there are other avenues to get offence over the next few seasons before a serious playoff run, they will make their moves
She bashed the Oilers taking Bouchard. It'$ often wrong. De÷rp
booo bad pick....... most teams have an adam larsen type d...we needed more top end offense!
Well we will have a great pick for at least 2 other year!!!
There's a rumor that next year the Habs will draft the best Zamboni driver available.
@@danielgareau2836 is he a goalie ? I know a good one in Toronto!!
Man is this interviewer ever biased. Does he know how to do journalism? Keep emotions out of it and s
Dont impose your view?
You realize the page is called Habs Fan TV right? I don't need to be neutral, I can say whatever I'd like. It was my job to play the other side of it because we know that these are questions Habs fans had about the pick
THE DRUGS MUST BE STRONG IN MONTREAL !!!!!!!!!!!!!
And you have forgotten to take your prescription ones
Yikes... Adam Larsson
Good comparison
you know comparison dont mean shit right?
Adam Larsson is a very good player, one of the top defenders in his own end of the ice in the league
You don't pick a solid defensemen at 5. The Habs had 5 rookie defensemen play last year another 5 defensemen are really good prospects. Unless makar or doughty are at 5 you pick a skilled forward. Shitty draft pick at 5 and trade with Colorado. Best draft since 2003 and we trade 2 picks . Montreal could have traded down with Philly and packaged 22 31, and 37 to move up in the mid teens. Then have 2 picks in the top 16. Passed on michkov, it's Denis Savard all over again.
Send your resume into Molson.
For what?
Brewing beer?
I think Kent Hughes knows more than you… cry a River
@scottbeattie7518 Time will tell, if Hughes passed on a 50 goal scorer for a steady and solid D-man he will be fired just like Timmons and Bergevin got fired for bad drafting. You cannot miss on top 5 picks.
I mean when the first thing that comes out of his mouth is “Lane Hutson” … that simply isn’t a good sign lol
Why should Hutson hold back Rienbacker s offense back because he's a shrimp?There were No shrimp Defenseman in the NHL playoffs .
Adam Larson lmfao
In my mind you draft the best available, they could have traded " down" afterwards
preds offered askarov and other pieces for our #5 and we said no. management is trash.
Worst pick in Franchise History.
Cry me a river 🤡
stupid
????
No way our defence is set for the next decade with extra guys we will obviously be trading. The guy is not a flashy pick think more Markov than P.K . The goal is to win Stanley Cup(s) not to satisfy fans lust for what could be a superstar and for jersey sales. We do have 2 first round picks in next years draft and our still in a rebuild. Hughes wanted Smith when he wasn’t available he just thought long term and shored up our defence. Hand had a big 3 before imagining what a big 6 will do!
LOL relax. Leblanc, Mcarron, Poehling, Juulsen, Scherbak, Beaulieu...and that's not even going back that far. Give the kid a chance.
Where is the 3-2 Boston game
what happen to axel sandin zubov lol
The kids plays in a pro league now. He’s the best right shot D…. His skating is at NHL level now. Longest wing span D in the draft. He won’t play in Montreal for 2 to 3 years anyway. These hockey guys are full of you know what…..free meals and dinners is all they know……Mitcov has a KHL contract for the next 3 years in Russia. Only one kid from this first round will play in NHL next season probably, obviously the first pick.
better fit for us than Michkov
Newhook