“For me, that’s what drives me crazy.
We often do this: recycling guys from other teams who aren’t able to earn a spot, while in your own backyard, and I’m coming back to Laurent (Dauphin), he does everything you ask of him, he performs…
I believe he’s now top-5 in scoring in the American League, and he doesn’t get an opportunity.
It drives me crazy that.
Yes, people talk about contracts, but at some point, you build a team to win hockey games.
You know, they also had the possibility of signing him.
And now they wasted a contract anyway to bring him here to Montreal, so at some point, what do you do as a player?
What image does that send across the league, to the young guys coming up, that it’s not true, in the end, that if you do everything the team asks of you, you’ll get your opportunity.” – Jean-Sébastien Dea