While considerable talent and mobility are essential, these rankings consider on-ice heart and brains as the ultimate deal-breakers.
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I don't know if you’re going to read this
@KBeachy12
but I was the speaker in an AA meeting tonight and I spoke for the first time in 15 years about the abuse I suffered as a child and it’s because you gave me the strength and courage to do so with your interview yesterday. 🙏🏼✨
I always loved how Kyle Beach played the game, and was convinced he’d become an
#NHL
top-6 powerforward.
Something went off along the way, but he’ll always be one of my favorite hockey prospects ever.
Kyle Beach, RHF
❤️ Elite
🧠 Good
🖐🏼 Very good
🦶🏼 Good
💪🏼 Elite
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Montreal will miss you,
@JohnLuTSNMtl
. Take good care of him, Winnipeg. The man is a damn good reporter and a class act. You’re lucky to have him. I hope Mindy likes her new home. 🙏🏼❤️
#TSN
#GoHabsGo
#GoJetsGo
Picks like Reinbacher are rarely well received by the fan base. It ain’t exciting. No one wants to draft well-rounded first-pair dmen. Everybody wants them 5 years later though. And no one want to trade them. Give it time.
#GoHabsGo
I have to admit, there's not much I’ve been enjoying more this season than seeing Edmundson feeding crow to his many detractors night after night after night. Hats off to the big man. 🎩
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If most
#Habs
fans are willing to keep cheering on their players during a rebuild, players can't expect them to have their back if they don't even have each other's like that. I’ve never tweeted a comment like this but this is fucking pathetic.
#GoHabsGo
Montreal is often overly dramatic when it comes to draft picks. Trauma from years past, I guess. But if you’ve already decided that Reinbacher won't be in the top 5 in 5-10 years re-drafts because you’ve read so online, you haven't been following past league-wide results very
@NHLDraftRanking
Your opinion is a breath of fresh air. Fed up with fans that haven't seen a second of any of the draftees play and are so morbid with the pick.
In my humble evaluation below, Ty Smilanic is a better return than a late-2nd. So in my book,
#Habs
got a 1st, a 2nd, and a 4th for Chiarot. Not bad. Not bad at all.
#GoHabsGo
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
2020 NHL DRAFT RANKING 🏒
Evaluating prospects differently:
While talent and mobility are essential, I believe it’s competitive spirit and hockey intelligence that turns good prospects into great NHLers.
From that premise, this atypical Ranking was born.
[method in thread]
My 2020 NHL Draft Rankings!
Categorized in the thread below👇🏼
Heart ❤️
Brain 🧠
Hands 🤙🏼
Feet 🦶🏼
Physique 💪🏼
Humble website coming soon. 🤞🏼
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In size, drive and thoughness. But Ghule is more of a stay-at-home, while Mailloux is all-out offense.
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potential future first-pairing if you ask me.
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Another unpopular view: If you limit your
@Twitter
experience to English, you're missing out on great content. It’s 2022. Translation is always just a click away.
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Please like and RT if you like it.
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Draft Day is upon us!! 🔥
How about a moratorium on whining about Jeff Petry? The guy is clearly not well. Let's learn from Drouin and leave him alone!
Que diriez-vous d'un moratoire sur le chialage sur Jeff Petry? Le gars ne va clairement pas bien. Apprenons de Drouin et foutons-lui la paix!
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Chicoutimi, 1989. Guy Lafleur decides to take an hour of his busy life to pep talk a broken 10-year-old kid who had lost his hero brother weeks prior. Preached patience, resilience and self-belief. True story. Never forgot. Never will. Thanks, Guy.
#RIP
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My favorite combination:
Tatar-Danault-Gallagher
Drouin-Suzuki-Anderson
Byron-Kotkaniemi-Toffoli
Lekonen-Evans-Armia
Romanov-Weber
Edmundson-Petry
Chiarot-Juulsen
Price-Allen
Top 2 lines and all D pairings are in no specific order.
What do you think?
What’s yours?
#GoHabGo
Fun fact: Both
#NCAA
freshman goalie standouts Devon Levi and Yaniv Perets hail from Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Quebec.
Devon Levi | 15-4-1 | 1.19 | .958 | 8 SO
Yaniv Perets | 9-0-2 | 0.87 | .944 | 6 SO
DDO working hard on bringing Quebec goaltending back to its glory days!
⚜️🥅⚜️
Gallagher’s injured.
Caufield’s coming.
Kotkaniemi isn’t Domi.
Ducharme isn’t Julien.
Baby Eagle will be fine.
He’s a C.
He knows it.
The coach knows it.
Everybody knows it.
Breathe, Habs fans.
Let them play.
Let them coach.
They’re happy.
Be happy.
Enjoy the win.
#GoHabsGo
Abonnés francophones, j’aimerais avoir votre avis. Je pense agrémenter mon classement de courtes descriptions l’an prochain. Je viens d’en pondre une de Logan Mailloux, à titre d’essai. Que pensez-vous du niveau d’écriture et de la pertinence du propos? Soyez honnête. Merci! 👊🏼😉
Picks like Reinbacher are rarely well received by the fan base. It ain’t exciting. No one wants to draft well-rounded first-pair dmen. Everybody wants them 5 years later though. And no one want to trade them. Give it time.
#GoHabsGo
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#NHL
TDL Targets 🎯
Below is a thread for TDL selling teams’ fans who want to target players under 25 instead of
#NHLDraft
picks.
⭐️ = better return than late-1st
💫 = better return than late-2nd
❌ = untouchable/playoff…
Age is next season
⬇️
I’m celebrating 18 years of
#sobriety
today. I don’t regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. No matter how far down the scale we’ve gone, our experience can benefit others. If you’re struggling with
#addiction
, know that
#recovery
, peace and
#happiness
is for you too.
PL Dubois to
@CanadiensMTL
could make sense for the
#Habs
considering he’d get signed age 25-32, but Timo Meier at age 27-34 just doesn’t fit in any kind of reasonable window of opportunity to contend. Minimum 2-3 years away. Timo will be in his 30s.
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#NHLTradeDeadline
Here’s hoping 40 goals isn’t the fans’ expectation for Toffoli now though. $4.25M for a 2-way 25 goals scorer like him that can play on both special teams is still one hell of a deal.
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I understand the demand for Artturi Lehkonen, but I’d be more inclined on extending him for 2-3 yrs next summer. Unless there’s an offer too good to refuse, or he’s asking for too much. Look at these maps. They match the eye test 100%. He sets the tone on every shift.
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While I’d probably bump Jiricek ahead of Nemec in a re-draft, I would still put my money on Pavel Mintyukov becoming the best defenseman from that class.
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Update: My priorities lately have been accompanying my dad at the end of his life and taking good care of my mom and 3 kids in towns 6 hours apart. I’ll still produce an
#NHLDraft2023
ranking, but based on fewer viewings than usual, with a focus on quality and grading efficiency.
I won’t be on Twitter much for a while due to family related medical reasons, so if there are any prospects moves happening, I might not share my humble 2 cents with you right away. Priorities. Enjoy the TDL everyone, and most importantly, take good care of you and yours! 👊🏼😘
I don’t care how good or ready Kaiden Guhle looks in camp. Send him back to junior. Simple reason: let him get a year tougher. Be patient. Be smart. Invest. And yes, there is something wrong with a tryout. Very wrong. You’ll end up keeping him because he’s not your worst option.
I think Kaiden Guhle is going to have a strong camp and really tempt the Habs to keep him. Whether or not management has the restraint to send him back to junior will tell us a lot about what they've learned.
Re: Jeff Petry to PHI… I wonder if a trade could include Nick Suzuki’s ex-linemate Isaac Ratcliffe. A project at this point, but the 6’6” who just turned 23 still have untapped potential. Better skating and puck protection lately, probably due to growing into his body.
#GoHabsGo
Every time the
#Habs
lose more than two in a row, most fans are ready to throw in the towell, fire the GM, replace the coaching staff, trade the vets and start over with new people. Meanwhile naysayers are having a blast saying I told you so. Montreal can be depressing.
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Anne-Marie reminds us here that Saku Koivu worked as a consultant for the
#Habs
European combines and wonders if a position within the scouting department might interest him. Saku back into the fold, who’s in?
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jme demandes si jamais le ch est intéressé à lui, si une job pe de scouting si y veut resté en finlande, pourrait intéressé Saku Koivu yavait été consultant pour les combines en europe donc.. continue davoir d liens avec l'équipe!
Je persiste et signe : Logan Mailloux était un talent appartenant au top-10 du repêchage de 2022 et pourrait réalistement devenir le défenseur droitier de première paire du
#CH
d’ici quelques années. La balle est dans son camp.
#GoHabsGo
@DLCoulisses
2 observations: 1-Mailloux à un impact énorme sur London, déjà 3e pointeur chez les def de son équipe, fiche de 4-1 depuis son retour bon pour ,800!Avant son arriver: 17-8-1 pour ,654. Deplus, London à marquer 25 buts(moy 5\match) et en a accorder seulement 12👌
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Hello everybody! Life forces me to be less active on Twitter these days, but it doesn’t stop me from rating this crop and working on my Ranking. I aim to publish it earlier this spring than in years past, and in a more reader-friendly format. Stay tuned!
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#NHLDraft2022
Whether
@CanadienMtl
fans are ready to go through a rebuilding process does not depend on their ability to accept losing seasons, but rather on their ability to support their prospects through thick and thin and trust players development processes that can take years.
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Habs fans, Laine to MTL for Domi/Caufield/16th is a no-brainer for MTL. Do you remember the last Hab to score a 100 goals before turning 21? Me neither. No Canadien is close to that caliber. Not Domi, not Caufield, not whoever gets drafted at 16, not those 3 combined.
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Like I said before, whether Carey Price suffered from mental illness or struggled with addiction issues is absolutely no one's business but him and his, no matter how much you paid for your hockey tickets or believe people deserves to know. Just let it go.
#GoHabsGo
#Habs
advise that Price’s after-care process within the NHLPA Players Assistance Program involves privacy for him and his family. He will not make any public statements or talk to the media until tending physicians deem it appropriate.
There there. Everything will be OK.
Byron - Kotkaniemi - Lehkonen
Perry - Suzuki - Anderson
Tatar - Danault - Gallagher
Drouin - Staal - Toffoli
Kulak - Petry
Edmundson - Weber
Romanov - Mete
Price - Allen
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I won’t be on Twitter much for a while due to family related medical reasons, so if there are any prospects moves happening, I might not share my humble 2 cents with you right away. Priorities. Enjoy the TDL everyone, and most importantly, take good care of you and yours! 👊🏼😘
St-Louis started OT w/ Suzuki (3 pts), Caufield and Petry. They controlled the play until Markstrom froze the puck. St-Louis keeps Suzuki on there to take the face-off, w/ Hoffman (3 pts) and Chiarot (1 goal). Suzuki changes for Pitlick right after. Chiarot scores. Play to win.
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CREAM OF THE CROP 🌾
(best upside X odds by position)
CENTERS
Top Line
Connor Bedard, RC 🇨🇦
Adam Fantilli, LC 🇨🇦
Dalibor Dvorsky, LC 🇸🇰
Leo Carlsson, LC 🇸🇪
Top-6
Calum Ritchie, RC 🇨🇦
Nate Danielson, RC 🇨🇦
Will Smith, RC 🇺🇸
Oliver Moore, LC 🇺🇸
I guess the consensus will be that it’s too much for too long.
Cap should be higher by the end. There’s LTIR relief if his shoulder doesn’t hold up.
He’s a 20+ goals scorer. And a one-man wrecking crew. Exceptional player. Rare breed.
Habs fans, rejoyce and enjoy!
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Avec
@anthonymarcotte
cette semaine, nous nous sommes amusés un peu : nous avons dressé notre top 7 des espoirs du CH! Voici les 2 listes.
Pour voir l'épisode complet :
Seems to me that the one checking the most boxes is
@emcastonguay007
and that she might very well be the woman for the job.
✅ Played 4 years in the NCAA
✅ Bachelor’s degree in Finance
✅ Law degree
✅ Member of the Quebec Bar Ass.
✅ NHLPA Certified Agent
Thoughts?
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#Habs
building blocks 🧱
Top-6
Suzuki C
Caufield W
Middle-6
Toffoli W
Anderson W
Top-4
Mailloux RD
Guhle LD
Edmundson LD
TBD
Romanov LD
Conclusion:
High-end top-of-the-lineup players required. The kind you can only draft. People will need to be patient.
⬇️
#GoHabsGo
He’s got good-version Petry’s smooth sailing puck-moving ability and Shea Weber’s arresting physical advantage and cannon of a shot.
I’ve been saying it since Day 1:
Logan Mailloux has the upside to become a legit top-pairing RHD.
And Dale Hunter is on it.
Time will tell. 😉
That being said, my gut feeling is that Luongo will remain a Panther and eventually become GM. His wife and kids are Floridians, and he’s been involved in that community for over two decades. He’s got something good going on down there. My humble 2 cents.
#TimeToHunt
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I’ve got a couple of intriguing
#Habs
trade proposals in mind this morning, I just don’t know if I’m in the mood for the aftermath. Twitter outrage/wisecracking/knowitallery can be rough way to start your day. 😆
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Suzuki
Kotkaniemi
Peohling
Evans
Unless the
#Habs
somehow adds a clear-cut top-6 C, I think that should be the plan going forward. And I believe it is.
The kids are alright. They paid their dues. They’re ready. It’s time.
#GoHabsGo
Makes me laugh when I hear people say Kotkaniemi has to earn his top spot on the Habs. Most high draft picks go to a team without a top line in place. Barkov, Kopitar, Scheifele, Dubois, MacKinnon....they all went to teams with very little ahead of them.
For the record, I would have done the alleged
#GoHabsGo
—
#LGRW
trade that’s been circulating for the
#Habs
, being confident that Dvorsky or But was going to be available at 9.
5. Whoever Wingswanted
for
9. Dalibor Dvorsky, LC 🇸🇰
17. Gabe Perreault, LW 🇺🇸
+ Young D/G
You?
Kent Hughes confirmed to
@MAGodin
and
@ArponBasu
of
@TheAthleticMTL
that his
#Habs
Game Plan is exactly what I was suggesting mid-December, and I’m happy to read it.
D+1/2/3 prospects rather than picks.
4-5 yrs w/o playoffs is too long for MTL.
#GoHabsGo
My
#GoHabsGo
Game Plan:
Keep Suzuki, Anderson and Romanov.
The rest of the lineup is available.
D+1/2/3 prospects rather than picks.
4-5 yrs w/o playoffs is too long for MTL.
What do you think,
#Habs
fans?
Hello everyone! People ask me if I'm going to release my ranking this year. You can count on it! I just have a lot on my shoulders, so I need to prioritize prospects evaluation rather than social media right now. But I do miss you guys. Thank you for your interest and your trust!
Is there anyone watching this
#Habs
press conference right now still doubting that the
@CanadiensMTL
are wrong to give Martin St-Louis a chance to coach this team? Not me. Don’t bet against this man. You’ll lose.
#GoHabsGo
6'5" 195lb
@CanadiensMTL
goalie prospect Frederik Dichow, aka The Gnome (thanks to his teammates) is going to the Olympics.
#Habs
currently have an underrated pipeline of promising U21 giant goalies including Dichow, 6’4” 200lbs Jakub Dobes and 6’6” 190lbs Joe Vrbetic.
#GoHabsGo
Félicitations à notre espoir Frederik Dichow, qui représentera le Danemark à son tout premier tournoi olympique! 🇩🇰
Congrats to prospect Frederik Dichow, who will represent
@DKIshockey
at their first ever Olympics!
#GoHabsGo
Logan Mailloux was no.9 in my Ranking before the pic story came out and all hell broke loose in my notifs.
9. Logan Mailloux, RHD
❤️ Elite
🧠 Average
🖐🏼 Very good
🦶🏼 Excellent
💪🏼 Elite
Hard hitter. Canon of a shot. Outlet passing and D structure need work.
#GoHabsGo
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🚨 UPDATE! 🚨
2020 NHL Draft Ranking
Unique format:
Heart ❤️
Brain 🧠
Hands 🖐🏼
Feet 🦶🏼
Physique 💪🏼
Cream of the crop ⭐️
in the thread below
Humble hard work here
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Alright f*** humility for a second. I’m damn proud of the work I put in. Still much room for improvement, but I’m overall very happy with the Ranking and the grades.
The teams I admire the most at the Draft table seemed to agree with my takes.
I’m gonna take that as a win. 👊🏼🤓
THREAD ⬇️⬇️⬇️
JEFF GORTON
1994
#NHLBruins
Named Director of Scouting
Created scouting database networking scouts and coordinating video on prospects 🔥
1999
#NHLBruins
Named Assistant General Manager
Contract negociations, pro/amateur scouting operations, GM
#AHLBruins
⬇️
3 things that I like about this trade:
1️⃣
#Habs
are indeed rebuilding
2️⃣
#Habs
are selling high and buying low
3️⃣
#Habs
are going to value ❤️➕🧠
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