Not a trolling question. I really am wondering what needs to happen for Habs to fire Julien and get rid of Price. I wonder if Bergevin is actually considering either... while it is much easier for him to can Julien, I wonder if somehow behind the scenes he might be thinking about how to offload Price. Price is lucky Habs are playing without fans in the stands. Otherwise he'd be hearing boo birds rain on him.
To be real honest , for habs to fire everybody would be that some scandal in the team happens , habs misses the playoff and then perhaps this team would turn into rebuilding.
Bergevin has to be cautious of what is he gonna do. You saw him all night when Rds showed him nonstop , hes worried asf. After 2-3 years of non spending the salary cap and wasting the prime years of Price and Weber and his disaster of drafting talent , Bergevin went all in this offseason due that the habs were gonna play in a terrible division.
Bergevin spent in total this ''summer'' 750k on Frolik , 750k on Perry , 38.5m on Anderson , 16m on Toffoli , 14m on Edmundson , 10.1m on Allen and 25m on Petry. For a total of 105.1m US in a covid cap.
That's alot of money to go all in. He hired another coach at 5m a year for 5 years that did not make the playoffs in 7 years.
He dodged a bullet when Danault refused 6x5m
I'd say at this point that the only chance that Muller , Julien keep their job , would be to make playoffs and make it alteast to 3rd round.
As for Price , the day he signed that luxury contract he was bound to die in Montreal. Even now if you wanted to trade him , who would take his ass? Even Seattle at this point would just take Allen for nothing.
The only players you can get in a return for Price would be like Skinner , Vlasic. Those kinds of awful players with garbage ass returns. Price has no value and even less with covid.
This team is doomed by contracts , terrible decisions , unable to draft , awful coaching staff , awful gm and a stupid owner that buys every stupid shit that Bergevin says.
The only thing that can save this team already happened and it's a global pandemic. This canadian division is awful , better yet the other teams are starting to pill up on injuries while we stay healthy. The best we will do is make playoffs at like 4th place and probably lose first round and media and the team will sell that the habs will be even better next year when we lose Danault , Tatar , Armia. Weber , Chariot and Price being complete ass and getting real old.
The only Mirage this season was playing against Vancouver.