Umm, not really....We Habs fans see a bright future, a great looking young team, better than having a great Regular Season team that continually flops in the playoffs. Say Hi to your Floppy friends the Leafs and Bruins while you're there.
Carolina has won a round every year man.. they make it farther than the Leafs and Boston every year stop with this take, you’re just showing that you don’t watch hockey.
I thought it was stupid as well, but carrying 8 years of dead cap space of $835,000 and 4 years of $455,000 won't be a big deal. Especially if they decide to wait a few years to do it.
That lady wanted ZADINA !!!! Even worse than KK. And NO, not that many Habs fans wanted Thachuck either. They did not know him well, and he scored like 8 goals for his College team back then.I mean I remember the camera cutting to THIS lady. She embodied what the entire city of Montreal was thinking when Kotkaniemi was drafted over Brady Tkachuk
Passing over the big strong power-forward with family pedigree for an off the board gamble going 15 spots above his projected position with the 3rd overall pick.
There was not a single happy Habs fan back then, and there sure as shit aren't any now that Brady hits fights and scores 35 goals+ for their rival.
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So you just flop in the regular season?
Being a little dramatic? That off-season he signed David Savard, who's been their best defensive D-man and 2nd in points for their defensemen the last two seasons. And he drafted Mailloux and Joshua Roy (in the 5th round), and drafted Guhle the year prior, and Caufield the year before that.
Maybe it was a mistake but it was also really funny and they got some vlaue out of him.
None of us thinks it's a win. We just laugh at how the thing unfolded for the Hurricanes. It's a lose-lose scenario for both teams involved.
Taking him 3rd overall was the loss. But that has been long proven. The situation with the canes was net 0. I haven’t seen a single poster that loves how that pick was handled. This is just an untruth
Good god NO! I’d take Dvo over him any day.Not at any price but yes. Before he left I felt he was ready to take the second center spot. It would be a great depth move. Whether he would be our third line center or a winger on the second line.
Edit: how about Dvorak for him?
You mean Engstrom? May very well end up as the best player of that transaction.
Every GM (and coach) inevitably makes some good moves sometimes, even the terrible ones. Blind squirrel, stopped clock, etc. Bergevin definitely made a handful of good trades and had a few good draft picks (not necessarily all the ones you cited). But overall he was an extraordinarily stubborn, tunnel-visioned, arrogant, short-sighted and poor GM, which also pretty much describes every Habs GM (and coach) before him for the previous three decades or so.
