Go Habs Go!

[anon_vlad]

Normally, when the word "rebuild" (as it was 6 years after Bergevin was hired) is uttered, it is implicit that the preceding GM screwed up or the team won a championship and lost some of its stars due their demands for raises being unsatisfiable due to the Salary Cap. In the case of Blowhard Bergevin, he was his own incompetent predecessor and his teams rarely won a playoff series if they got in at all. After nine years of his mismanagement, every night the Habs play is starless. Who among them would be on the first line with any contending team?

One can only wonder what dirt Bergevin has on Molson to keep his job after so many years of failure.

 

[EagerBeaver]

One can only wonder what dirt Bergevin has on Molson to keep his job after so many years of failure.

Maybe Bergevin accidentally walked in on Molson as he was getting blown by 3 girls from Euphoria?

 

[gaby]

OMG...not the game --effort we were waiting for....they played for DOM the first period....that's it.........after it was all PRICE...he is now 3.13 and .888.....notre homme de 10 millions....

ALLEN is 2.14 and .932...those are number one stats!!!!!...will DUCHARME have the guts to use ALLEN tomorrow.....let's see who is the Commander in chief...lol...

 

[Robert 21]

Different Coach, same Results...

Canadiens fall to Jets in Ducharme's debut as coach​

https://www.nhl.com/news/montreal-canadiens-winnipeg-jets-game-recap/c-321279124?mi_u=2016476619

“The Canadiens led 2-0 after the first period and 3-1 midway through the second before the Jets rallied to send the Canadiens (9-6-4) to their fourth straight loss (0-2-2).”


Maybe the whole Team should quit....or Get Fired...


***LETS GO B’s***

 

[Joe.t]

I always thought that Price although a good Goalie was very overrated, in fact I thought that he was the most overrated player in the NHL, I would not be surprised to see him traded before the deadline that is if they can find any takers for a 33 year old declining player with $10.5 million per year salary.

 

[EagerBeaver]

3.13 and .888 is not what you want from a #1 goalie making $10.5 million annually. I just don't see any takers, unless Montreal eats a big part of the money owed and takes a cap hit. It's kind of the same problem that the Yankees have with the Giancarlo Stanton contract. The dude can't stay healthy even at age 29-30. As he gets older you wonder how many games he will actually play. Unlike Price, Stanton has actually looked good when he has played, but he is brittle a player as I have seen, possibly excepting Jacoby Ellsbury, who was basically paid $140 million over 7 years for 3 healthy seasons and 4 seasons of being on the IL and not playing at all. It was money for nothing:

 

[gaby]

ALLEN in the net tonight.....pas de surprise là.

 

[Sol Tee Nutz]

Price being in the 3rd year of a 8 yr $84 mil must worry a lot of people. His 3.13 GAA & .888 saves kind of sucks for any starter, he is being dropped like a hot potato in the draft league I am in.

 

[gaby]

PRICE....wow....since season 2019-2020...he allowed 5 goals and more 11 times....by far the worst in NHL.....for 10.5 millions/year....incredible.

 

[EagerBeaver]

Usually stats like that are a sign of mental midget status, meaning that when he gives a couple goals early he tends to lose focus and the floodgates open. It's the same thing in baseball when a pitcher gives up a couple of long homers, gets rattled, starts losing command and hits the showers in the 3rd inning. You tend to see this a lot with younger pitchers, so that stat is surprising to me because Price is a 14 year veteran goalie and you would not expect that from a veteran goalie.

Could also be a sign of playing with a nagging injury.

 

[gaby]

1-1 après 2 périodes....bonne game...ALLEN fait du bon travail .

 

[ocean]

They fired kirk muller. Man that sucks.....

 

[bobbyc]

the guys are really in a ruth we outplayed the jets last night but just can seem to win one anymore
are weekness at center position really pops out when were playing 4 on 4 and even worse in overtime 3on 3 that is where the talented players from other teams take advantage of us
we have not yet win one in overtime even ottawas young talent is too much for the habs with Chabot Stutzle and Tkachuk wich by the way should be a habs player with good scouting
we never seem to know who to put on the ice in those situations because all are center men lack puck contol it is by far are weekest position

 

[gaby]

tough lost in o/t.....will have to go with ALLEN on regular basis.....et de la discipline taburn.

 

[EagerBeaver]

Gaby,

Do you realize that Allen has been a journeyman backup goalie his entire career and while he has shown a sharp improvement in his Save % the last 2 seasons, he was likely a backup for a reason all these years? Is it normal for a 30 year old goalie who has been a journeyman backup to suddenly become a long term solid starting goalie? I know there are a few guys like Halak and Tim Thomas who took it to another level in their 30s but is this the norm?

 

[Fradi]

It is tough to watch Price becoming average and not performing like the Price we know.
He is not getting too much help from his defence lately either.
For me they fired the wrong people, Bergevin is the one who should have been canned a long time ago.
The Habs still don’t have one viable centre or anyone they can actually call a real goal scorer, instead they pay large sums of money for guys like Drouin a midget who has never lived up to the hype. There is not one player amongst them that you can expect to score 30 goals.
I have all the respect in the world for Gallagher as he gives his all every night, but when he continues to be one of your top goal scorers you know there is something totally wrong with that team.

 

[gaby]

Julien was not that wrong when lately he said in a press conf.....where is my McDavid ???.....lol....not sure Bergevin ait apprécié .

 

[EagerBeaver]

The Habs still don’t have one viable centre or anyone they can actually call a real goal scorer, instead they pay large sums of money for guys like Drouin a midget who has never lived up to the hype. There is not one player amongst them that you can expect to score 30 goals.
I have all the respect in the world for Gallagher as he gives his all every night, but when he continues to be one of your top goal scorers you know there is something totally wrong with that team.

It seems like the Habs have had a center problem for many many years, even before Bergevin got there. I remember Bergevin drafted a young center named Alex Galchenyuk and it turned out he was not really a center and also had a hard time keeping his penis in his pants off the ice. So they ultimately traded him, I think to Arizona for Domi, and neither of those guys was the answer.

I am sure Bergevin didn't appreciate it when Julien asked where his McDavid is, but McDavids do not grow on trees. Players of this caliber can only be obtained through free agency. This is what Toronto did when they went out and signed John Tavares. Montreal could have signed him too but they allowed Toronto to do so. And now Toronto has a few dynamic centers on their roster and that's why they are in 1st place in the Canadian Division. It's not hard to see this.

 

[bobbyc]

all these long term contracts are killing teams payroll look at canadians with price and webber for 20 millions after a couple of years there just not giving you value for the money anymore and now gallager at 6.5 million and believe me when i say i love this player but with is size and the way he plays reaching his 30s hes going to slow down quick and were going to hate that contract also and hes been my favorite player for the past 5 or 6 years i get it players try to get the most they can but as a manager you need to make sure the value is there for the last years of a contract also or else you can never improove your team and with the salary cap probably not going up for the next couple of years those 3 players are taking 26 million of it witch is almost 1/3 of your cap and thats going to hurt them for the next 5 years the new reality is you want to pay your players when in there prime between 24 and 30 if your overpaying after 30 years old its killing your chance to build a good team and thats whats going on with the team i love and it hurts me to say this

 

[Chouin95]

Gaby,

Do you realize that Allen has been a journeyman backup goalie his entire career and while he has shown a sharp improvement in his Save % the last 2 seasons, he was likely a backup for a reason all these years? Is it normal for a 30 year old goalie who has been a journeyman backup to suddenly become a long term solid starting goalie? I know there are a few guys like Halak and Tim Thomas who took it to another level in their 30s but is this the norm?

Journeyman backup goalie, are we talking about Malcolm Subban !?!? Just to clarify Jake Allen was averaging 48 games played per season from 2014 to 2019 with the St-Louis Blues. His very worst save% in a season is .905 and he started every game in the playoffs for his team from 2014 to 2017.