Brady Tkachuk continues to haunt the habs for not drafting him when they had the chance to & will likely continue haunting them for years to come. Not drafting him likely took them ten years back! It’ll take them years to get over that mistake! Things would be very different today had they drafted him instead of Jesperi Kotkaniemi! Marc Bergevin would likely still be GM, no rebuild, the habs would be contenders every season & Tkachuk would likely be the current captain & be the fans’ #1 favorite player!
Are you shitting me? Why would Bergevin have selected Kotkaniemi ahead of Tkachuk? This season, Tkachuk at left wing has twice as many points and twice as many assists as Kotkaniemi does playing center.
As a Yankees fan I have seen the same thing. The Yankees had the chance to acquire David Ortiz as a young player with the Twins, George Steinbrenner said no because he was fat, and Ortiz absolutely killed the Yankees the remainder of his career. Now the Yankees are going through the same thing again with Rafael Devers, whom the Yankees have not been able to get out since he arrived in the majors. Devers has something like 10 HRs off Gerrit Cole in 20 career at bats. I have watched entire series where the Yankees simply cannot get the guy out, and everything thrown to him is hit hard. I thought they should either stop pitching to him or else make a trade and acquire him so they don't have to pitch to him.
At this point Montreal needs to do the same with Tkachuk. Since they don't have anyone who can defend him, use some assets to trade for him so that they can stop his abuse of the Montreal Habs.
