He didn’t even win his trades. Trades are a tool to improve the roster — after every famous winning trade the Habs got worse results and performances.
If we had good media in Montreal they would do a thorough autopsy of the past regime. But we don’t have such luck — so we might never know.
He said he was going to do a good job
Did you see the size of the man’s arms and chest though?
Yep blown up on steroids.As fake as the man himself
Could play Mailloux overager like Xhekaj? Let him dominate at that level.
Mailloux has already dominated the OHL.
Maybe you should judge him by results ? 2 Stanley cup runs is more than most teams. It’s easier to tank than to create a competent and competing roster. Praising new management for liquidating all of Bergevins assets (which most shat on) to suck then critiquing the prior regime is absolutely hilarious.
Bergevin's success came on riding Gainey/Gauthier's assets. The moment Bergevin started moving them/changing the roster was the moment the team became bi-perennial bottom feeders. The hilarity is this liquidated roster is doing better than what Begevin left more than haflway into last season.
Serge Savard, IMO, thought he was helping to get an inexperienced puppet into the job that would rely heavily on hm for advice.
This is true - I've seen it a few times.
Zero Stanley Cup Runs.
Assets lmao, boat anchors, you mean? Hughes is completely handcuffed because the previous idiot left him in a complete mess with garbage contract after garbage contract that we can’t give away.
Bergevin wasn't all bad it's true. I'd give him a C+.
This is bad man............really really bad.
It's also highly ironic that the maligning of Bergevin in these last couple of pages takes place in a thread that would not even be on the Habs board if Bergevin didn't have the guts to take a public hit for drafting Mailloux in the first round. (And he did that at #31 overall due to a run to the finals that Habs fans were able to enjoy partly because you-know-who acquired in the previous off-season so many players with Stanley Cup rings.)
Yes we can give Bergevin credit for drafting Mailloux, acquiring Anderson and Toffoli, and acquiring Chiarot and Edmundson. Those were good moves.
Yes, it is definitely early to make any definitive judgements. If I remember correctly, in the first few years under Bergevin the Habs won multiple divisional titles after being 3rd worst overall in the previous year. Regarding Hughes, I think Gorton (with Molson’s blessing) picked Hughes partly as a reaction to what I believe were Bergevin’s 2 biggest faults as GM… contract negotiations and player development (specifically regarding the 2 top-3 picks). Hughes obviously brought a ton of experience with contracts, and his picking St Louis as coach is one of a bunch of moves Gorton and him made to give a better chance to young players (many of whom were drafted under Bergevin) such as Caufield, Guhle and Mailloux to reach their potential.
Bergevin brought in the worst dman in the league in Douglas Murray and a guy who couldn’t play at all in George Parros, signed Daniel Briere while he had one foot in the grave, but before that he hired Michel Therrien as coach. Imagine hiring an on air personality who publicly bashed your star dman. Then bridging the star dman and forcing him into arbitration the following season and being on the hook for 9m per year all because his foxhole buddy thought Subban had to be a better person. The warning signs were there from the beginning with MB, in fact, he was terrible from the beginning.
Trades are hard, this isn't PlayStation, get yourself a dog, if I could tell you everything you'd understand... Man this guy was all about excuses.
Thing is, Bergevin liquidated the previous regimes garbage also, and when Hughes one day gets fired, they will have to liquidate his garbage……i sense a pattern here
