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Habs Season Thread: 2024-25 Regular Season

GrandWazoo said:
Well shit, just saw JJ Daigneault at the Costco in Scottsdale.
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It seems almost impossible you could win a Cup with the Habs 92-93 defence.

Have to give this guy credit for resurrecting his game in the AHL and being part of it. He played a lot.

I also loved Lyle Odelein.
 
GGpX said:
I mean, Daignault wasn't a superstar by any means and had a journeyman career, but still. 900 games in the league isn't a bust.
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He wasn't what the Canucks were expecting with a 10th overall pick. Showed up at the draft on crutches, which Vancouver fans took as a statement on the front office's ineptitude.
 
Yeah, I'm sure everyone would want more than a journey with the tenth overall pick and unless you pick the best player in the draft, there's always going to be the usual, "Yeah well X player and Y player went right after him!"... But if you draft someone 10th and he'll play nearly 900 games in the NHL? And only 18 players in his draft class played more than him? Sorry, that's not a bust. The same way every time you redo a draft and some journeyman player ends up being the 25th best player in that draft.

Take the 2007 draft. Brandon Sutter went 11th, Ryan McDonagh went 12th, Lars Eller 13th, Kevin Shattenkirk 14th. While all are (or were for Sutter before Covid wrecked his life) inching closer & closer to 1,000 games played, they've had different levels of success.

Sutter isn't a bust just because McDonagh was drafted just after him, the same way Eller & Shattenkirk aren't busts because Perron & Max Pacioretty were taken in the 20s.
 
east coast said:
There were a lot of fairly young guys on that team that didn't stay around the league very long after. Haller (though he lasted a few more years),Ronan, Dipietro,Dionne, Lebeau, even Leeman. But they share a season of immortality.

Brisbois was even part of it.
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Keane drops it back Lebeau scooooorrrres 3-1 Montreal...
 
GGpX said:
Yeah, I'm sure everyone would want more than a journey with the tenth overall pick and unless you pick the best player in the draft, there's always going to be the usual, "Yeah well X player and Y player went right after him!"... But if you draft someone 10th and he'll play nearly 900 games in the NHL? And only 18 players in his draft class played more than him? Sorry, that's not a bust. The same way every time you redo a draft and some journeyman player ends up being the 25th best player in that draft.

Take the 2007 draft. Brandon Sutter went 11th, Ryan McDonagh went 12th, Lars Eller 13th, Kevin Shattenkirk 14th. While all are (or were for Sutter before Covid wrecked his life) inching closer & closer to 1,000 games played, they've had different levels of success.

Sutter isn't a bust just because McDonagh was drafted just after him, the same way Eller & Shattenkirk aren't busts because Perron & Max Pacioretty were taken in the 20s.
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It isn't about how many NHL games Daigneault played. It's about how many NHL games Daigneault played for the Vancouver Canucks.

Bust.
 
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