The goalie situation in MTL is so representative of MB style of management.
No global picture vision, wishful thinking when it comes to evaluation, always making his decisions based on positive, very positive and super hyper positives projections.
His lack of vision was fully exposed in the 2017 summer, when he completely destroyed his left defense.
He relied heavily on an aging Markov, didn't really prepared any succession and traded Sergachev for Drouin.
Then he made a bicep flexing contest in his contract negotiation with Markov and ended losing him for the KHL.
But from his perspective, his defense was then better than before ..
Ooops!!!
Then, from 2018 on they drafted a plethora of LHD: Harris, Norlinder, Guhle, Struble, Fairbrother, Leguerrier, Romanov.
To finally being in a situation where it's RHD Habs lacking...
MB probably thaught Weber and Petry would be good forever... Unicorn projections as always ..
Same thing with Price and the goalie situation.
They haven't drafted a goalie in earlier rounds since Fucale in 2013. They never really invested to assure Price's eventual replacement.
They put all their eggs in Primeau's basket but untill now, he haven't really shown he's gonna be up for the no 1 role one day.
MB tenure has been under the sign of constantly being two steps behind instead of two steps ahead.
As a GM, MB clearly hit his incompetence threshold (Peter's principle).
I think he was good in a supportive role (to a GM). As a former NHL player he was close and related to them. He was good at bridging between the players and management.
But as the one making the final decisions... he lacked perspective and wasn't detached enough.
