This was the biggest break through for Slafkovsky last season. At some point we saw the turn very obviously where 'he got it'. He turned beast mode on and left it on. What a beauty to watch him play, pure power on display!
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At last season start we could dream of Flo to be a good 4th liner. Now, after last season, i can see, like many others, that he could actually be much more. It's not set yet, but the ceiling on the Xhekaj bros is very hard to pinpoint while the floor is at minimal 'an nhl player '.
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I'll do you one better. Marc Bergevin actually never once traded up in his tenure
Instead, he traded :
- 4th 2021 to 4th TB 2022 ??? TO THE f***ING BACK TO BACK CHAMPIONS?
- 7th 2021 to 7th ARI 2022
- 3rd 2021 to 3rd ANA 2022
- 7th 2020 to 7th CHI 2021
- 7th 2019 to 7th PHI 2020
- 5th 2019 to 5th FLA 2020
- 4th 2019 to 4th SJ 2020
AND IT GOES ON AND ON.
... I just mean ; What the f***, men. He also traded down MULTIPLES times like once a year.
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But not for rentals, like Bozo did.
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JianYang
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In terms of 1st rounders, I think this is the first time the Habs have moved up since 2010 draft when they moved up to #22. It turned out to be a very mediocre player though. I'm guessing this was under the Pierre Gauthier regime.
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MB was obsessed with building a team in HIS image. Players that had similar careers/potential as he had. Stick in the 90s for mindset and didn’t evolve with the game. Hughes has spent a lot of time around players and knows what works in a hockey market like montreal
The problem with MB was they were not up to date on the development end of things. Too many misses to blame it on the scouting and players.
Can’t wait to see who Bobrov calls a unicorn in 2024. That guarantees you an incredible growth curve
The only person to blame for the Bergevin era was Geoff Molson......that guy wasn't and never will be competent enough to hire a GM.
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To hire a hockey ops team in general. His best move was to hire Gorton.
Bergevin was running a one man show.
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More I see from the last 3 years draft by the new management, I think they truly nailed it all draft. They pick very well with their high pick and but also draft very very good potential with the laters rounds also.
And he was insightful enough to grasp that. Unfortunately he asked the corpse of Savard the GM (still capable in other areas, but long done with hockey) for help and got truly terrible advice.
KevSkillz4
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The only person the blame for the Bergevin is Bergevin himself. It's the GM, god dammit.
He make good trades, but at signing contract ?!?! Really really bad !
He didn't even find Gorton either, Bettman recommended him to Molson.
Serge Savard helped get Bergevin hired.
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JeffreyLFC
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And Savard turned against Bergevin at some point during his reign but Molson still kept him.
Bergevin's era was a true roller coaster. A good season then a terrible one and it went on and on. My man issue with Bergevin was that he was handed perfect pieces to build his core but never decided to go all in with his trades, only patch work. On the opposite, if you refuse to go all in, then trade the useless piece to get better draft position to improve the core. Instead it was patch job after patch job and he always complained that good players were never attainable in trades, while every year other teams acquired plenty of good players through trades.
I will give him credit for 3 trades that I really liked at that time : 1- Petry, 2-Vanek, 3-Danault
I know Vanek was not a huge success but we did get a legit talent for spare pieces and it brought a lot of excitement to our playoff push.
His most defining trades were Subban vs Weber and Drouin vs Sergachev.
The rest of his moves was just awful team building. Markov out for Alzner... like really?
Getting Suzuki in the Pacioretty trade was a great move.
The problem with Bergevin was nepotism. Hiring Michel Therrien and Sylvain Lefebvre were moves that set the organization back. Neither of these guys should have been within a mile of any prospect.
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It is the only move he did that moved the team forward.
All the rest was patching or lateral move at best, combined with a decade of failed draft.
Some people would argue that its even luck to have had Suzuki since he wanted Glass. Personally i believe we should judge the thing as it is.
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Smart to ask Gary. We could have ended up with another journeyman hire like they did in Staios-land.
Make no mistake I am probably the guy who despises the Bergevin era the most. The minute he hired Therrien I knew this franchise was screwed. What I didn't expect is how bad Lefebvre was, his vision was not to develop young players...he tried to win at any cost and that in itself was an utter failure. Molson is 100% to blame for turning this iconic franchise over to such idiots.
Jaynki
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100% Agree. He also kept Bergevin and his gang for too long.
Tho, he salvaged it pretty good with Gorton.
Sucks we had this administration for the Subban and Price era.
Very happy we have HuGo for the Slafkovsky and Demidov era!
Scintillating10
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Drafting top 5 for 3 consecutive years hard to miss. Easy to get core players. Draft in 20s, get players like Beck or Mesar. Decent players but more 3rd liners.
