Some teams draft good some just plain out bad (look up phoenix and the team i'm reviewing)
Now lets take a look back at some of the previous draft choices the Habs have made before this years draft, some have been heartbreaking and some have been utter shit, sometimes just thinking about this i think "wow at least the leafs didnt have draft picks and still don't" But that can only make you feel good for so long. I really hope Gauthier does something good with the draft, he just resigned Plekanec for 6 more years, thats an amazing good start, lets conjure what more good can come right?
From most current to the year 2000. I'm not going that far back because i cant remember much only what i read up and pissed me off. Which is enough.
2009: Canadiens took Louis Leblanc (18th overall). They could have taken: No obvious second-guesses at this point in the draft so we'll see what goes on from there right? Later-round bonus: Mac Bennett (3rd round, 79th overall) Have not seen anything on this guy so i'll leave it at that. Moving on.
2008: No first-round pick. Canadiens took Danny Kristo in the second-round, 56th overall. Again, no obvious One Who Got Away. And Maxim Trunev (5th round, 138 overall) might be a player if they ever get him out of Russia, stupid KHL, Fucking KHL How Does it Work?
2007: Ryan McDonough (12th overall) and Max Pacioretty (22nd) in the first round. Colton Gillies was still on the board when McDonough was picked and i really cannot believe they took McDonught over Gillies, and David Perron went four spots after Pacioretty. (Lars Eller went one spot after McDonough but he's a hab now too). But the Canadiens got P.K. Subban in the second round, 43rd overall (one spot before Aaron Palushaj).
2006: Canadiens took David Fischer 20th overall. Two picks later, the Flyers took Claude Giroux. Later in the first round, Patrik Berglund went to St. Louis which pisses me off at how good he's becoming and fischer is....see through basically and Nick Foligno to Ottawa but he's not that good right? only jumps around. Possibe sleeper draft who maybe will man up and do awesome: Ryan White in the third round ... but that doesn't make up for missing out on Giroux.
2005: Carey Price, the Franchise....hopefully, chosen 5th overall (one pick after Minesota took Benoit Pouliot who was acquired for latandrunk). Still on the board at that point: Devin Setoguchi, Anze Kopitar, Marc Staal (this one hurts), Tuukka Rask, T.J. Oshie and Andrew Cogliano. Canadiens took Sergei Kostitsyn in the seventh round, and that looked like a steal for a while. Not so much lately, unless you count his ties to that mob boss.
2004: Kyle Chipchura, 18th overall. Still on the board: Travis Zajac, Andrej Meszaros, Jeff Schultz and Mike Green. But the Canadiens took Mark Streit in the 9th round, 262nd overall. This one hurts, chipchura is what? 4th liner on the ducks now? Zajac is a bad motherfucker, Meszaros is fucking awesome, and mike green still cant play D though.
2003: Do we even want to talk about it? The Canadiens took Andrei Kostitsyn 10th overall. Still available: Jeff Carter, Dustin Brown, Brent Seabrook, Steve Bernier, Zach Parise, Eric Fehr, Ryan Getzlaf, Brent Burns, Ryan Kesler, Mike Richards and Corey Perry. In the second round the Canadiens took Corey Urquhart with Patrice Bergeron, Matt Carle and Shea Weber available. Then they took Maxim Lapierre one spot ahead of David Backes. Heartbreaking ... but the Canadiens got Ryan O'Byrne in the third and, with the 271st overall choice, Jaro Halak in the 9th round.
That just breaks your heart doesn't it?
2002: Christopher Higgins in the first round, 14th overall. No obvious first-round overlooks, but Cam Ward lasted till the 25th pick. Canadiens took Tomas Linhart in the second round ahead of Matt Stajan, Jiri Hudler, Johnny Boychuk and Tomas Fleischmann. Later rounds were a wash ... but maybe Konstantin Korneev will come over once he's 35 and washed-up.
2001: Mike Komisarek (seventh) and Alexander Prezhogin (25th) were chosen the first round. Komo went ahead of Tuomo Ruutu, Dan Hamhuis, Ales Hemsky and Colby Armstrong. I would have taken Ruutu or Hemsky, heck even armstrong considering that motherfucker knocks out a habs player everytime his team plays them and we dont need that. Perezhogin was picked with Derek Roy still available and all this fucker did was knock keith primeaus life out of order so he can fuck right off. But the Canadiens took Tomas Plekanec in the third round (71st overall). Thats a steal.
2000: Ron Hainsey (13th) and Marcel "The unimportant/Other" Hossa who is now the leading scorer in the KHL, goes to show the amazing talent that league has right? (16th) were the first-round picks. Still on the board: Brooks Orpik, Alexander Frolov, Brad Boyes, Steve Ott, Justin Williams and Niklas Kronwall. A wasted draft, but third-round pick Josef Balej was traded for Alex Kovalev. We could have certainly used Kronwall, Frolov certainly Orpik, maybe even Otter.
There you have it folks, if you have made it this far you probably scratched a hole in your scalp right? I too have a bald spot....not really but man my scalp is burning in annoyance. SO please, please please Gauthier, choose someone who is actually good right?
Until that, GO HABS GO, cant wait for next year to start already damn it.
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