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Originally Posted by QuebecPride
Are you a montréal canadiens fan at all? All you seem to think about this team is that it's ******** and we will never win a cup anymore.
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I have a great deal of faith in the roster, but the team does have serious problems (ones I don't expect to get addressed for at least one year, probably two) and clunker trades like the Latendresse deal do not help. So, while I wish it weren't the case, I am not hopeful about the team's prospects for the next year or two.
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Originally Posted by Bourne
Hate to break it to you mate, however we got the best value possible for Latendresse.
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Then they shouldn't have traded him.
The trade was a clear, obvious mistake when it happened, except that this board had so much irrational Latendresse hate that they couldn't actually look at the fact or the numbers. Irrational Latendresse hate of the "he will never score 20 goals" and "he is not a NHL player" variety now having been demonstrated as the embarrassing nonsense it was, the haters have fallen back to "he could never have done this in Montreal". News flash: he could have because, in his limited icetime, he already had.
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Originally Posted by Bourne
Frankly, he was underachieving immensely,
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He was
not underachieving.
He was producing as much as he is now in Minnesota. Except over there they give him PP time and more icetime. So the end totals are bigger.
There's no reason to believe he can't continue a scoring pace he's held for two years running now (factoring in icetime) and there's no reason to believe he couldn't have done it in Montreal with a bit of patience and competent coaching. I've said it last year, I said it before he was traded, and I say it now: Latendresse has never had any problems with Montreal that decent icetime wouldn't have solved.