optimus2861
Registered User
This, this, this, 1000x, this.I don't blindly hate everything about this team. I legitimately hate all the stupid **** that this franchise does, year after year, regime after regime, because they are completely and utterly incapable and unwilling to do what is best. Tell the media and the vocal minority of the fanbase to shut the **** up and let them do their jobs.
I'm tired of this dinosaur aged belief. The league has changed since the lock-out. Get the fresh and innovative hockey minds in here. This sit back, trap, dump and chase, all players must be defensive specialists who hit and dump da puck is soooo out-dated and yet we've got the team clearly headed further into the direction where skill is being moved out for useless grinders. Instead of acquiring scoring.. they're looking to find more DSP calibre players.
And Galchenyuk will get sacrificed on this very altar. I fully expect Therrien to proclaim him as a permanent left winger by the end of training camp, and so we will never see the Galchenyuk-as-#1C we were all but promised when he was drafted.
All because Therrien cannot properly evaluate or coach highly skilled players, and Bergevin is perhaps no more capable of doing so than his coach, whom he professes to love so much.
It was one thing to live through the dark ages of the late 90s and the 00s, where we just plain knew we sucked and had no hope of winning a Cup with the rosters that we had.
Something else entirely to live through this age, where it feels like we're so close, only to risk squandering it all away.
If we do blow this opportunity, because of the reasons you describe... honestly, I might be done as a Canadiens fan. Let's hope it doesn't come to that, and within the next year or two we get to see banner #25 being hoisted.