Probably the 30-year old injury-prone has-been with the $84 million contract for the next 8 years.
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Probably the 30-year old injury-prone has-been with the $84 million contract for the next 8 years.
Bergevin is the master of the unimpressive trade. He is a classic make-a-move-to-shake-it-up GM. But news flash to Bergevin, when you scoop two big hard turds out of the toilet bowl, throw them in a blender and mix at high speed with water, it’s still shit, it’s just puréed shit. And that seems to be the house speciality dish at Chez Bergevin.
Let's call a cat a cat. Trading Subban was a FUCKING big mistake. Sport wise and business wise that trade was a disaster. In modern hockey you need players that makes a difference at many level. He was definitely one of them.
Currently, especially since Radulov out, the team is boring and emotionless. It looks bad a for a few more years unfortunately.
Cheers,
Currently, especially since Radulov out, the team is boring and emotionless. It looks bad a for a few more years unfortunately.
Cheers,
Now you get excited when the Habs beat a suck-ass team at home? My goodness, how the standards for this team have fallen. A home win over the hapless Sabres doesn't even warrant a comment on the other fan boards.
NO - a win against the Sabres is a LOSS in the race for the top draft pick..........I have to go over the concept of tanking with you guys again? This is not a win!!!!!!! It's a double loss, because the Sabres win now in the race for higher draft pick.
This win did what exactly??/ Propelled Montreal into the playoffs, or propelled them out of contention for the top draft pick? Please answer me.
You're correct plus the fact it'll be a bit tougher for the worse team to win the lottery starting this season. Which means there's no guarantee a team that tanks will wind up with the top pick.
I agree that the Habs can still make the playoffs. But as EB mentioned this would be the worse scenario for them. Squeeze into the playoffs, get eliminated quickly and they the same story near year. This is a problem that the Leafs had over the past decade. They'd do everything they could to make the playoffs late in the season and miss out by a point or so. Then all the other teams that finished with worse records would end up drafting better players. The Leafs finally realized this a couple of years ago and ended up drafting the phenom they always wanted.
When you are a bad team and need to 'tank' in order to draft the best players available, you do everything you can to give yourself the best chance at the top players. You suck the right way!! You want to draft the top 5 players available....not the 6th, 7th or worse.
Every Habs win from now on is actually the worse-case scenario for this sad team if they ever want a chance to truly rebuild and become a contender again.
That's right! Either suck properly - do it correctly, or else the team will suck long-term. These guys are rooting for a scenario in which they insure that the team will suck and be mediocre long term.
By the way, why wasn't Gallant hired to coach Montreal when he was available? Does he not speak French?
By the way, why wasn't Gallant hired to coach Montreal when he was available? Does he not speak French?
Gallant doesn't speak french....he's not from Quebec he's from Prince Edward Island which is mostly anglo. His ancestors likely spoke french, though.
But that's not the reason why he wasn't hired. He started his NHL coaching career with the Habs as an assistant coach to Michel Therrien. When the Florida Panthers job became available a year or so later he applied for it and got the head coaching job. A year or so later Claude Julien got fired by the Bruins. Soon after Montreal fired Michel Therrien and immediately hired Julien. They then signed Julien to a 5-year contract. Shortly after Julien was hired by the Habs the Florida Panthers canned Gerard Gallant. That's why he missed out on the Habs job. Julien got fired before he did and got hired before he could. There's also no guarantee that Gallant would have been hired by the Habs. He also may not have wanted to coach the team knowing full well that there'd be an opening in Las Vegas. It's safe to say that Gallant wound up a winner by coaching the Vegas franchise instead of a mediocre franchise in Montreal.
My recollection is that it was well known the Panthers were going to fire Gallant, couldn't Montreal have just waited til he became available rather than rushing to sign Julien to a 5 year contract, a guy Montreal has already fired once before for not being able to coach up the mediocre players he was given by the then GM, Gainey?
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