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How would you rank these in hindsight? Took this pic from u/content_ad_8952 who took it from Hockey News 2015.



How would you rank these in hindsight? Took this pic from u/content_ad_8952 who took it from Hockey News 2015.

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  2. LoganHutbacher

    Just fucking crumple it up in a ball and toss it.

  3. JamJam130

    “Habs fans always overhype their prospects!”

    Meanwhile THN had this crap 14th in the NHL and a B-grade lol

  4. Capable-Mobile-8260

    I feel better looking back in this, I remember thinking it was a shit prospect pool at the time so it reinforces my confidence in this current pool.

  5. bcgrappler

    Earliest luck was 22, we were gonna have a shit pool.

    Crazy part is.

    Mccarron and tinordi were both nhlers last year.

  6. foxtrot1027

    Although the prospect pool was really really bad. It is funny to see how horny the hockey world was for size even 10 years ago lol

  7. Hoof_Hearted12

    I’m Eskimo bros with Condon but other than that, yikers

  8. ObverseNebula

    Holy shit. Looking back now, this was garbage

  9. VonDingwell

    This was around when I started seeing cracks in the Habs.
    Players weren’t graduating, seemed they all had low ceilings.

    Annnnnd the die hards / sycophants were screaaaming about how good the Habs were at drafting and every guy was a steal.
    “The Habs draft amazing”
    “But they don’t develop….”
    “That’s not the point” lolol

  10. imeanwelltho

    I looked at when we picked these guys. No picks within the top 20 in their draft year. Low chances any of these guys were gonna be difference makers anyway.

    And makes me excited we’ve got earlier first-round picks in the group:

    Slaf – 1
    Laine – 2
    Dach – 3
    Demidov – 5
    Reinbacher – 5
    Suzuki – 13
    Caufield – 15
    Guhle – 16

    Late firsts and later rounds gems sprinkled in there as they should be!

  11. GeistHunt

    It’s pretty telling that the fifth best prospect is a 23 year old dman who “needs more time to develop”.

  12. Dramatic_Sea5076

    Yikes. This was peak when it came to Habs’ worst drafting era.

  13. Le8ronJames

    That’s a rough list lmao. That’s why (even tho our current prospects are significantly better on paper) I still don’t go full on hype train with our current pool. What a decade of Bergevin development will do to you

  14. KantanaBrigantei

    That’s a miss on Scherbak. Wish he had entered our system during the MSL era.

  15. Hungry-Promise-3032

    Martin Reway was suppossed to be what Slaf is rn to slovak hockey. Such a briliant player with such a troubled mind, its quite sad.

  16. HonestyHurtsU

    Juulsen was unlucky, concussions set back his career. I’m happy he found a way back into the NHL

  17. eriverside

    All those guys went through our development – which sucked ass. Lehkonen didn’t and he did well for himself.

    It’s entirely possible the draft class was good but MB nuked it.

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