Quoting: Goulet
No doubt Shaw is a good depth player and has a ton of heart. Chicago has made enough terrible moves that they deserve where they are. Canadians too.
i like the habs progress since Timmons has began re-structuring every department he took over.
in 2014 he landed us Eric Crawford from Van who has been awesome for us with Scherbak,Juulsen,Sergachev and Poehling selections under his belt.
Timmons took over Recently Demoted Assistant GM Larry Carriere's Development of our AHL system and prospects and has already made moves towards fixing up
our AHL as well as negotiating to add a 2nd ECHL team as we always have 1 goalie riding back up who is wasted in this system that thrives elsewhere due to lack of minutes available (Dubnyk's a prime example)
he's started signing players from our recent drafts to the AHL system for next year and now all he has to do is find a new Coach for his System .
MTL's drafted more solid players in the last 3 years then the previous 8 before them especially Poehling who's looking like a steal and Primeau who's taking the NCAA by storm .
Scherbaks been showing signs he's ready to make the Jump full time , Juulsens giving us reasons to as Petry for his list on july 2nd and Sergachev landed us Drouin and when we find a center and start playing him on wing he'll be a great , young asset and boost to our PP as he and chucky account for over 40% of our power play points even in a **** year they've had success together. once the Evans ,Poehlings,Hawkeys ,Fleury's ,Bitten's and Vjdemo's start showing up in habs jersey's in the next 1-2 years as our current habs youth become our core veterans .
-Evans Deflection skills alone as a defensive player are going to make him beloved here in MTL because he gets his points by working extremely hard for them .
-Poehlings a dynamic Center developing ahead of schedule and showing more offensive upside then once predicted.
-Hawkey's NCAA stats and overall career stats are consistently the best in whatever level he's at and shows a lot of promise and in my opinion is the best goalie Prospect MTL has right now.
-Fleury's having a standout year with a lot of people wondering if he'll go to AHL next year or straight to the NHL because of his playmaking ability combined with his hard nosed style.
-Bittens described as a Gallagher type player who can play center and is all heart with a scoring touch .
-Vjdemo is about 1 more year in the SHL from being developed and his skating has improved a lot allowing him to keep up to the pace of the mens league and produce offensively with consistency something we'll need after we trade Patches or he leaves UFA