2minutes4roughing- Fail for Nail!

Some Habs fans are on board to "fail for Nail".  What does this mean you might ask?  Well the team that finishes last in the league drafts first overall in the NHL entry draft, and the player that is projected to go first overall is Nail Yakupov.  So fail to draft Nail!

Honestly at this point if the Habs can't win two of their next three then I think we should start shopping around everyone whose last name isn't Price, Subban, Pacioretty, Eller, Gorges or Plekanec.  If the rebuilding process happens then we need to try to trade everyone who isn't young to try to stack up on draft picks and prospects.  I would also keep Erik Cole, I love the way he plays.  So make trades like the Mike Cammelleri one to get prospects and draft picks for the future.

Also, bombing the season means we can get an excellent player.  Most top 5 players tend to create a big impact in the NHL.  For example Carey Price was drafted 5th overall in the 2005 draft.  Another example is Matt Duchene who was drafted by Colorado in 2009 3rd overall, he has already developed into one of the top two way forwards in the game and produced 67 points last year in just his second season in the NHL at 20 years old.  So getting any top 5 player in the draft is a player who is almost guaranteed to make an impact.

Rebuilding and drafting very high toget star players for a few years has proven to be very effective.  In Chicago and Pittsburgh they both were terrible for a few years, drafted very high two years in a row (first or second overall) and won the Stanley Cup 3-5 years after drafting these players back to back. Edmonton is the team that is currently doing this with back to back first overall picks in the past two years, Taylor Hall and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, and I GUARANTEE a Stanley Cup for Edmonton in the next 5 years based on the assumption that they find something younger than Nikolai Khabibulin and better than Devan Dubnyk.  I'm not saying they need an outstanding goalie, just a good one.

I think it's time for the Habs to admit defeat and to start to follow the same path as Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Edmonton.