If Marc Bergevin is fired, who do you want for next Habs GM ?

[Captain Mountain]

You think he would leave for the right offer?

He's going to leave the defending Stanley Cup champs where he has very little external pressure, carte blanche, and ownership that is willing to spend basically whatever he wants? To go to the Habs?

What kind of offer would make you consider that?

 

[Captain Mountain]

Do you reckon Timmins gets boot too if Bergevin gets fired?

There is almost no chance Timmins survives if Bergevin is gone.

 

[Moose Head]

He's going to leave the defending Stanley Cup champs where he has very little external pressure, carte blanche, and ownership that is willing to spend basically whatever he wants? To go to the Habs?

What kind of offer would make you consider that?

Gainey did it. Stevie Y left for Detroit. Some people like challenges.

 

[Captain Mountain]

Gainey did it. Stevie Y left for Detroit. Some people like challenges.

They had been tenured for a while. Brisebois hasn't been GM all that long and literally just won. Its not the same thing.

 

[OnceWasNot]

What a terrible list. Of those it's Madden hands down, but very little chance he leaves Anaheim.

 

[McGees]

Why bother with half those names, if you don't know they gotta be french speaking Quebecers by now....

 

[Draft]

Bouchard, maybe Madden. Team needs a rebuild and a culture change.

 

[HuGo Burner Acc]

Geoff Molson has to either step down as president or hire a VP of hockey ops that oversees whoever is the GM of this team. MB has basically controlled this team with no substantial accountability. That is a problem in the structure. Forget talking about who the next GM is, who's gonna actually come in and be the brain of the organization because Molson is a businessman not a hockey mind

 

[HuGo Burner Acc]

Division of labour is necessary in this situation

 

[barbu]

Pretty sad list. I don't like Roy and yet I had barely if any hesitation in voting for him.

At least if he thinks something radical needs to be done he'll stand for it.

 

[Hins77]

There is 2 type of person in opposite. There is the emotive one vs the analytic one. Both of them are emotive kind of guy. Bergevin overvalue some of his player, roy would make some emotive move that could be desastrous for the team. We need an analytic one. They will make decision about fact and wont fall in love wirh players

 

[Hannibal]

Roy is too much mentally instable for this job.

 

[MarkovsKnee]

Yeah not Roy. He didn't want a rebuild in Colorado and Sakic did. Sakic was right. He'll be just another "we need to win right now" guy.

We need a builder in every which way. The organization is too old school and Roy would just be more of the same.

 

[IdontSpitOnTheIce]

Whoever is from the Monteregie region. Beautiful place and good people.

 

[snakeye]

How is Mathieu Darche a choice? Is this a f***ing joke?

It'd be like Bergevin all over again

 

[Tyson]

As a 50 year Habs fan I am now truly at a crossroads of simply giving up on this organization.
The Habs are in my DNA...have been since the time I watched Beliveau score his 500th goal against Minnesota. I am just about done if they don't fix this inept management. Enough is enough

 

[Bouboumaster]

Either steal Brisebois from Tampa or blow the whole thing with Roy.

 

[Captain Mountain]

Yeah not Roy. He didn't want a rebuild in Colorado and Sakic did. Sakic was right. He'll be just another "we need to win right now" guy.

We need a builder in every which way. The organization is too old school and Roy would just be more of the same.

Its not even that he didn't want to rebuild, its that he didn't like the direction the Avs went in. His own words:

Patrick Roy Statement

Patrick Roy talks decision to leave Avalanche

I have thought long and hard over the course of the summer about how I might improve this team to give it the depth it needs and bring it to a higher level. To achieve this, the vision of the coach and VP-Hockey Operations needs to be perfectly aligned with that of the organization. He must also have a say in the decisions that impact the team's performance. These conditions are not currently met.

"I like to use the word 'resign,'" Roy said when asked about the split. "Obviously, we had different philosophy and sometimes it's better that way. The day I called [executive vice president and general manager Joe Sakic], I mean we talked for about 10-15 minutes about everything, and I mentioned to him that I was [not] going to come back next year. And he offered me to think about it, but I said my decision was made. I had plenty of time to think about it...

Asked about those philosophical differences, Roy said, "It was more like the type of players and stuff like this that [we] didn't necessarily agree on, and it goes upon that. It was people working for the team and stuff like this that we were a little different, but no more than that."
For Roy, analytics are something that didn't quite work for him, though he acknowledged that there are some he likes and some he, well, doesn't agree with. He added, "I think it is pretty much for a lot of coaches."

If you like how the Avs and teams like them are run, you probably don't want Roy. If you dislike how the Avs are run, Roy might be fit.

 

[Richiebottles]

I find it odd that the same people who think MB doesn't express himself well with the media and is arrogant, want Roy as GM.

Roy would run the Habs into the ground. As a VP of Hockey Ops or senior advisor, sure. Not as a GM.

 

[puckeater]

We deserve the french version of John Torturella

 

[Captain Mountain]

I find it odd that the same people who think MB doesn't express himself well with the media and is arrogant, want Roy as GM.

Roy would run the Habs into the ground. As a VP of Hockey Ops or senior advisor, sure. Not as a GM.

Ya, I'm not sure I get it. Roy seems like more of the same, with the major difference being Roy is deified in Quebec.

 

[Habs 4 Life]

Roy is too much mentally instable for this job.

Agreed, as much as I love the guy and player he was there is no way he can manage a team, he is too crazy!!

 

[dinodebino]

The list is sad because we probably don't know all the potential candidates. Bobby Smith would be a 'out of the box' name, like @WeThreeKings mentioned. And he's got credentials in hockey. There are probably many others.

Those names are of the people we know of. Yes, some would be because of the Francophone thing, but others, like BriseBois (would never happen) or Madden would just be because they are talented, educated and competent candidates. Nothing to do with language in both cases : BriseBois is a Stanley Cup winner (Calder Cup too?), and Madden Jr is Bob Murray's declared heir. Nothing with language in those two cases.

 

[Vachon23]

Most likely they'll do Martin Brodeur or Roberto Luongo.. but there's no real track record there.

I don't think Brodeur want to be GM, he had the job on the table with the Devils and he didn't want it.

 

[WeThreeKings]

I don't think Brodeur want to be GM, he had the job on the table with the Devils and he didn't want it.

Isn't he an AGM?