20 Years of First Round Failure | The Montreal Canadiens..

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2. Well… that was depressing 😂 by chance our future is bright because the last 20 years have been rough

3. Great video!! I feel your pain. Being a season ticket holder for the Atlanta Thrashers and then Florida Panthers during this time, I really know of the suffering.

   Habs have over the last couple of drafts made some great moves for course correction for the near future.

4. Another awesome post junkie. You rock.

5. The only two drafts that I truely despise are Noah Juulsen and Kotkaniemi. Sebastian Aho and Brady Tkatchuk were my choice from the get go. Sebastian Aho made Laine so good when they played for Finland . Putting Aho and Tkatchuk together was my dream. But Quinn Hughes was the choice over Tkatchuk in retrospective. But man, a hard hitter with a one of the best 2 way foward.. oufff that would've been spicy!

6. I really don't mind Kostitsyn over Getzlaf . Kostitsyn skating was superior by a mile over Getzlaf. Shooting , hitting everything. I would've picked Kostitsyn over Getzlaf anyday of the week at that time.

7. Love you vids bro ,however have to correct one thing Bob Gainey wasnt fired, he resigned feb 8 , 2010 and picked Gautier to replace himself . And it was because he just lost his daughter in boating accident . And with the Gomez trade was made because the only way Gionta and Camilarri would sign with habs was if they signed Gomez. So he did cause he wanted them. And he been the man Molson has turned to for all Gm recomendations for gms after his tenure . He s the reason Goton and Hughs got hired . Molson took his advice . But he was hand cuffed in the Gomez trade due to those 2 free agents would only sign if he got Gomez . He really dint want him. But the development in montreal was a hugh issue since the latter part of S.Savards era. Habs stopped moving with the times in that department cause Molson didnt want to spend in that department. Till 30 + years later it caught up to the habs . And finally after being tortured that many years of not wanting to spend , the bubble burst when Bergy got fired . And thank God Molson listened to Gainey on hiring Gorton , and Hughs . And finally Molson realized he could no longer cut corners if he ever wanted the habs to have success again. But great video. Alot of that scouting crew through those years gave a lot of bad advice on just how good a prospect was. So alot of mistakes due to no money being placed in advaning the scouting team. So alot of bad trades made even from the beginning of it with Serge Savard. But they paid the price for ownership not wanting to spend. But great video bro.

8. Leblanc over Kreider hurts too. with Kreider ,Price would've never been hurt . thinking of it….

9. A 20 min Junkie video?? Is this christmas?

10. What an eye opener… how the hell did those shinaanigans go on soo long without an axe coming down

11. Great video Junkie!
    Length and girth on point

12. 5:36 They spelled Kostitsyn's name wrong lol…

13. In HUGO we Trust…👍🕶

14. Your intro made me remember something that happened at least a decade ago, bear with me my memory will not be as fatefull as it happen. If I recall, Bob Gainey was the head coach of Montreal
    But I do remember a trade made with Minnesota, mostly because of a part of the interview about the Wild Player:
    ''The GM (or coach I don't remember) came to me and said:
    I have a bad and a good news, the good news is you're gonna play more minutes on the ice… the bad news is it'll be with the Canadians''

    That, still today, is something I will always remember
    😅

15. 75% of preparation is psychological/mental. The rest is physical. It's more important to be clear on a prospect's head space than his skill and potential. Some lessons are learned quicker than others. Many others. Too many others.

16. When Scherbak was with the Icecaps my little brother got to be a mascot for one of their games and skate out with the bys. Nikita and John Scott were two of the coolest dudes ever; took the time to talk to him, snapped some pictures, even talked a bit with my folks. Really wished it worked out for him.

17. Man I knew their drafting and development was bad but gezzz.

18. I believe one of the first things Gorton did when he took over in 2022 was to hire a professional development staff. They salvaged Caufield and then went to work on Slafkovsky, Guhle and Xhekaj. They worked on interim rebuild players like Harris, Strubble, Kovacevic and turned them into assets. It's working.

19. Alternate universe: Habs draft Chris Kreider, who proceeds to injure Henrik Lundqvist in the playoffs. The Habs get to the Stanley Cup Finals but get fucked in multiple consecutive overtimes while Carey Price carries the team on his back, losing in 5 games, giving the Kings revenge for 93

20. Scherbak WHL

21. A 20 minutes Junkie Video? What a good day

22. Pacioretty is a UFA, maybe we can bring him back for one last rodeo.

23. Drafting was not the issue. Development 💯 was. HuGo have taken care of that

24. I don’t think they drafted that poorly. It’s not a coincidence everyone they traded was great and most of what they kept was bad. We had sink or swim development, and other teams just had better systems.

25. Oh fuck yeah a 20 minute long Hockey Junkie video

26. Lionsgate should seriously consider your version instead 😂

27. Demidov was a gift that Miraculously was there for Hab's 5th pick. Without this pick, Hab's rebuild (which is coming to an end after next year) would have been a failure… always one position too high for the right great picks. Management coulda shoulda played rookie goalie, but Didn't have a clue. They kept three goalies for most of season… dummies! Will the 2024 draft bale their rebuild out? We'll see… Kool aiders chant "in Hughes we trust" Really? I was just relieved he didn't pick a D over Dem

28. There is a reason we have been irrelevant for 20 yrs.
    There is also a reason we finally feel good about the future.
    Like others have said… Not just drafting, but development.

29. Pretty torturous watching the years of drafting flops. Thankfully this vid has a happy ending.

30. The 3 stooges! One of my favorite lines a few yrs ago
    Lars Eller
    Travis Moen
    Andrei Kostitsyn
    Larry, Moe & Kurly 😆

31. BEST VIDEO EVER

32. Combination of a lot of things. Biggest issue is they were over hyped from the get go and obviously their off ice antics weren’t monitored closely enough.

33. Different Gm same old Trevor Timmons that was the problem

34. Carey Price? Is not Patrick Roy. Patrick Roy was the greatest goalie in Habs history.

35. Was at the game where Komisarek gave Cammalleri a perfect one-timer while he was a Leaf. What a beauty!!! 🤣

36. Love the longer content.

37. Taking Kostitsyn before Jeff Carter WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKK CMONNNNNNNNNN

38. i love it

39. Wow… HockeyJunkie… its the weekend, i didnt want to wake up to pain. Not something to pair with a hangover.

40. Thanks to make me laugh when the Jewel hit the Goalcrasher.

41. Ironically, the Habs' 271st pick in the 2003 draft was argusbly better for them than their first round pick. A young Slovak goalie named Jaroslav Halak

42. Even when the Habs got a good pick they pissed it away for a project reclamation player

43. Excellent video. My son will now believe me about those years and those draft errors.

44. Perezhogin despite not becoming a star always seemed to play well vs the Leafs. For that alone he deserves a special gold star. Same for the Frankie the Cube. Right Darcy Tucker?

45. Ya. Lots of stinkers. If I could change only one, it’d be Giroux. Can you imagine that great talent and leadership wearing the best jersey in organized sports? 😓😓

46. a 20m video by Hjunkie, sign me up

47. To the defense of Perezhogin he had a good career in the KHL and had good stats in the AHL and also was doing relatively well on the 3rd line in the NHL for a young player but Montreal did not want to commit to the relatively high salary a russian team offered him so he did what everyone would have done which is take the money.