Episode 69 of the Hockey Free For All Podcast 9-27-2023

Hey Hockey Fans, here is Episode 69 of the Hockey Free For All Podcast topics

#1. Who’s complaining now about the 1st round selection of right-handed defensive prospect David Reinbacher with the 5th selection overall in the 2023 NHL Entry Draft?

#2. Guess Logan Mailloux was the right pick with the 31st selection overall in the 2021 NHL Entry Draft by Marc Bergevin! For all of the wrong reasons, Logan Mailloux dropped into Montreal laps.

#3. The Canadiens now have 2 young top pairing right-handed defensemen like no other organization does in the league.

#4. Where are all of the self-proclaimed experts and geniuses now that had nothing good at all to say about these 1st round selections? Talk about egg all over the face, wow. That has got to sting a lot.

#5. Marc Bergevin and Kent Hughes stood their ground and made the proper selections, and they were right!

#6. At what point in history did anyone start thinking that the term sexy pick was appropriate for anything or than the clothing industry or perhaps for the perfume or makeup industries? It has absolutely no place, or viable reference in sports, automotive, food or just about anything else one can think of.

But this is where it all began for draft pick David Reinbacher, he wasn’t the sexy pick, as apparently there was great disappointment and resentment that the Montreal Canadiens did not select Russian Right Winger Matvie Mitchkov, who was considered the “sexy pick”. What?

Mitchkov, who by the way continues to have consistency issues, hasn’t played well, is apparently not much of a a team player, is apparently not easy to coach, and may never make it to the NHL if things do not turn around soon, was the preferred choice of these disgraceful individuals, who went on to personally attack David Reinbacher via social media, and are now demanding justification and answers, as if they are somehow owed any, as to how he has gained 15lbs from the day he was drafted to train camp.

No one is owed or entitled to anything. Has even of these people stopped to consider he’s very likely on an all-inclusive customized training regiment personally designed for him. Hello, anyone out there!

#7. For anyone who thinks it’s an absolute waste of a pick to select a defenseman with a pick that high, how many less Stanley Cups would have been won by the great Canadien dynasty teams of the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s without Butch Bouchard, Doug Harvey, Tom Johnson, Jean-Guy Talbot, J.C. Tremblay, Jacques Laperriere, Noel Picard, Serge Savard, Carol Vadnais, Guy Lapointe, Pierre Bouchard, Terry Harper, Larry Robinson, John Van Boxmeer, Rick Chartraw, Bill Nyrop, Brian Engblom, Gilles Lupien and Rod Langway? A lot less!

#8. Has anyone stopped to think about the defense that Montreal can now ice in the very near future? Consider this for a moment as the starting 6 defensemen on the Montreal Canadiens roster. David Reinbacher with Lane Hutson, Logan Mailloux with Arber Xhekaj, Adam Engstrom with Kaiden Guhle and that starting 6 did not include Jordan Harris, Jayden Struble, William Trudeau or Bogden Konyushkov. Montreal has an embarrassing amount of defensive riches, that no other team in the league even remotely comes close to. That is nothing short of amazing defensive prospect depth.

#9. Defense and the quality of it, determines champions of all sports with very few exceptions.

#10. Montreal’s starting 6 defensemen of the future possess the skills to be the best starting 6 defensemen on one team at the same time that the NHL has seen in at least 4 decades. How about everyone allows them to develop, and watches excellence unfold before their eyes.