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Shane Wright

WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
Sure I would consider it, if Zona were dumb enough to make such an offer. But no GM in his right mind ever would. Rejean Houle, on his worst day, doesn't make that trade. Gord Stellick, the guy who traded Russ Courtnall for John Kordic, wouldn't be that stupid.
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What does Arizona gain from that trade? They can draft a center at no. 3 this year without trading their 2023 first. Makes zero sense for them.
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
The Habs will take Wright for one simple reason, the same reason why the Habs took Wickenheiser 42 years ago: risk aversion.

NHL GM's are uber-conservative and they make decisions not out of enlightenment but mostly out of fear. Back in 1980 nearly every team in the then 21 team NHL had Wick ranked as the #1 guy. Maybe 3 others had Dave Babych as their top pick. Not a single team had Denis Savard rated as first overall. So yes, with the benefit of hindsight it's possible to say that the Habs blew it but had any other team been picking first, they'd have made the same mistake. Savard ended up going at #3 behind Wick and Babych but had Chicago picked first and the Habs third, Wick would have been the Hawks' big mistake while Savard would have been a Habs' coup.

No GM at the time wanted to be embarrassed down the road by taking a flyer on Savard. Wick was the sure thing, the lead pipe cinch to be a superstar. To go against the grain came with more risk than NHL GM's were willing to take. Nothing has changed in the last four decades. If Wright is the consensus #1 pick and the Habs take Cooley instead and Wright goes on to be a star and Cooley becomes another Wick... The Habs aren't going to risk it.

The scouts and pundits who question Wright's position as the prohibitive favorite at #1 don't have the first overall pick. The Habs do.
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Were AKos & David Fisher risk aversion poster children?
 
Krustchev said:
What does Arizona gain from that trade? They can draft a center at no. 3 this year without trading their 2023 first. Makes zero sense for them.
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Would Yotes go for: 1OA + Weber contract for 3OA + Canes 1st (KK offer sheet / incl in Dvorak deal)?

Can’t seem to find an LTIR contract alternative that has the low actually salary for multiple seasons + high cap hit benefit of Weber’s around the league.
 
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Sal_Butera said:
Would Yotes go for: 1OA + Weber contract for 3OA + Canes 1st (KK offer sheet / incl in Dvorak deal)?

Can’t seem to find an LTIR contract alternative that has the low actually salary for multiple seasons + high cap hit benefit of Weber’s around the league.
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Draft is in Montreal. You really think they are going to mess around now? They are taking Wright and we will have a top 10 pick next year and the rebuild will be complete. We will probably load up on free agents next offseason.
 
Sal_Butera said:
Were AKos & David Fisher risk aversion poster children?
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Neither of those were top 3 picks. The further down the board you go, the more of a crap shoot it becomes. Nobody takes a reach when they have the first overall pick. In 1980 Denis Savard was considered a reach at #1.
 
xposbrad said:
Draft is in Montreal. You really think they are going to mess around now? They are taking Wright and we will have a top 10 pick next year and the rebuild will be complete. We will probably load up on free agents next offseason.
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Yeah. The Canadiens are drafting Shane Wright with the first overall pick in the 2022 draft. That’s 99.99 percent certain.
 
This draft is shaping up a bit like the 2013 one with MacKinnon, who likewise was a phenom for a few years. He had a good year with Halifax, winning the Memorial Cup but was overshadowed by Drouin (of all people) and had a poor WJC. Not saying that Wright will end up reaching the same level, but the media/internet buzz about him dropping out of the first spot for not being "generational" is similar. Kind of like the Tavares year as well.
 
Sounds like a perfect fit for Montreal really. For some reason, Jacques Lemaire keeps popping up in my mind when I read about Wright.
 
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