well said Marty, well said. because every single move that has ever been made by any GM in NHL history has been DRIVEN BY COMPLETE PANIC AND HYSTERIA.
believe it or not, there are GMs out there capable of improving their team via trade.
- DoubleDown

The ones who trade with the Islanders ?

http://melnickblog.blogsp...02/bring-pierre-home.html
- dt99999

drunk as (frank)

Did your wife should your sarcasm detector up your butt?


Sacrament....
- WaterBoy

wove you like to try that again?

Gorges to the Panthers (e3)

wove you like to try that again?
- number_23

I did numbnuts

Renaud Lavoie ‏@LavoieRenaud 2m

Panthers are looking for a D or two. That's what this team needs right now.

Gorges and Murray for Barkov and a 1st

Méquite appeune Bergevin!!!11!!1

I did numbnuts
- WaterBoy

Renaud Lavoie ‏@LavoieRenaud 2m

Panthers are looking for a D or two. That's what this team needs right now.

Gorges and Murray for Barkov and a 1st

Méquite appeune Bergevin!!!11!!1
- stinger67

Renaud Lavoie ‏@LavoieRenaud 2m

Panthers are looking for a D or two. That's what this team needs right now.

Gorges and Murray for Barkov and a 1st

Méquite appeune Bergevin!!!11!!1
- stinger67

DD and Diaz for Kopecky and a 3rd.

Dimitrios VFebruary 2, 2012 at 11:11 PM

Don't get me wrong, I like McGuire, but it's easy to make hundreds of statements a year and then have a buddy highlight the positive ones. Could he make a good GM, why not! But Mitch, this is clearly a push for you to have a buddy on the inside. I'd probably do the same, but tone it done a little, you are starting to lose credibility. And for whatever it's worth, I find you know your stuff.
Mitch MelnickFebruary 3, 2012 at 1:32 AM

The reason I highlighted those particular quotes was to give fans a sense of Pierre's strength as a talent evaluator. I start from the premise that scouting is an inexact skill and that everybody makes mistakes. It's the ability to limit those mistakes that help build championships. The Canadiens find themselves at the bottom of the Eastern Conferene because they have misevaluated too many players.

As for "toning it down"? I wrote a blog. This ain't exactly the front page of the New York Times. But if it were, I'd write the exact same thing. It's what I believe. I have no personal stake in Pierre McGuire becoming GM of the Habs. Other than working for a station that might carry radio broadcasts of their games all the way into June.


lol

McGuire was finally proven wrong.


Frans Nielson > Zack Parise

Dimitrios VFebruary 2, 2012 at 11:11 PM

Don't get me wrong, I like McGuire, but it's easy to make hundreds of statements a year and then have a buddy highlight the positive ones. Could he make a good GM, why not! But Mitch, this is clearly a push for you to have a buddy on the inside. I'd probably do the same, but tone it done a little, you are starting to lose credibility. And for whatever it's worth, I find you know your stuff.
Mitch MelnickFebruary 3, 2012 at 1:32 AM

The reason I highlighted those particular quotes was to give fans a sense of Pierre's strength as a talent evaluator. I start from the premise that scouting is an inexact skill and that everybody makes mistakes. It's the ability to limit those mistakes that help build championships. The Canadiens find themselves at the bottom of the Eastern Conferene because they have misevaluated too many players.

As for "toning it down"? I wrote a blog. This ain't exactly the front page of the New York Times. But if it were, I'd write the exact same thing. It's what I believe. I have no personal stake in Pierre McGuire becoming GM of the Habs. Other than working for a station that might carry radio broadcasts of their games all the way into June.


lol
- dt99999

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are you "Dimitrios"?

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are you "Dimitrios"?
- DoubleDown

It's Prax.

It's Prax.
- Pecafan Fan

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are you "Dimitrios"?
- DoubleDown

I would never say to Melnick that "for whatever it's worth, I find you know your stuff"

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are you "Dimitrios"?
- DoubleDown

Love how Mitch replied at 1h32 am.

Jessica Rusnak ‏@JessRusnak 2m

#habs send Pateryn back to Hamilton

I had no idea he was still with the team

Jessica Rusnak ‏@JessRusnak 2m

#habs send Pateryn back to Hamilton

I had no idea he was still with the team
- stinger67

yeah. He shows up in the stats every night with lots of zeros next to his name. Kinda like Desharnais.

Jessica Rusnak ‏@JessRusnak 2m

#habs send Pateryn back to Hamilton

I had no idea he was still with the team
- stinger67

Me neither.

yeah. He shows up in the stats every night with lots of zeros next to his name. Kinda like Desharnais.
- hscesq

but did he draw a penalty last night?

yeah. He shows up in the stats every night with lots of zeros next to his name. Kinda like Desharnais.
- hscesq

What a (frank)ing disaster that guy has become. There's rough stretches where you don't put up points, and then there's Scott Gomez-like rough stretches where you don't do anything but collect a paycheque.

What a (frank)ing disaster that guy has become. There's rough stretches where you don't put up points, and then there's Scott Gomez-like rough stretches where you don't do anything but collect a paycheque.
- 3M

For a second, I thought you were talking about FRAUD Giroux.

but did he draw a penalty last night?
- DoubleDown

Probably not, no.

For a second, I thought you were talking about FRAUD Giroux.
- Pecafan Fan

BOOM

What a (frank)ing disaster that guy has become. There's rough stretches where you don't put up points, and then there's Scott Gomez-like rough stretches where you don't do anything but collect a paycheque.
- 3M

they were talking about how much more engaged he was on CBC last night.
put up zeros across the board. didn't even have an attempted shot.