Marc Bergevin Appreciation Thread

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eklund the clown

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The guy was a complete idiot and didn't have a clue what he was doing.He patched things up to save his own ass every year .He set this franchise back for years .He gave out ridiculous contracts that the new team here is still dealing with and his mess is delaying our rebuild.Appeciate that .he is gone.
 

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Reggie Houle was a puppet, for Mr Corey.............he ran the team into nothing.....
Bergevin ws given a ton of money to run his team into the ground......he is a donkey

Gimme good guy Reggie Houle any day over the donkey. Bergevin's flaws, had flaws.......he was brutal.
Did he make some nice moves, of course.....he himself said the Draft was like Darts......throw one at the board and who knows.....make da playoff, and who knows....................I think you can see where some of us are coming from.

Anyhow, better days ahead. HuGo are setting the course for some good days ahead.
Reggie Houle is a good guy, that's a fact. Sure he was the puppet of Corey and had no experience. That tells a lot about the whole team back then, just after they won in '93.

Houle left the team in complete disaster. Bergevin did many mistakes but he never gave away the good prospects. Bergy left the team with Suzuki, Caufield, Anderson, Ghule, Harris, Allen, Armia, Gallagher, Evans, Pazetta, RHP, Edmunston, Savard, Mailloux and few others. I'm not sure Montembault. Anyway, it's not like he left a desert land. As soon as Drouin, Hoffman, Wideman and Dadonov are out of the team, the sun will shine again. Our young core will mature. Bergy got Toffoli, Lehkonen, Kulak and Chiarot who got interresting returns last year too. It's not all negative, there is a nice young core of players a gm like Hughes can build on.
 

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Reggie Houle is a good guy, that's a fact. Sure he was the puppet of Corey and had no experience. That tells a lot about the whole team back then, just after they won in '93.

Houle left the team in complete disaster. Bergevin did many mistakes but he never gave away the good prospects. Bergy left the team with Suzuki, Caufield, Anderson, Ghule, Harris, Allen, Armia, Gallagher, Evans, Pazetta, RHP, Edmunston, Savard, Mailloux and few others. I'm not sure Montembault. Anyway, it's not like he left a desert land. As soon as Drouin, Hoffman, Wideman and Dadonov are out of the team, the sun will shine again. Our young core will mature. Bergy got Toffoli, Lehkonen, Kulak and Chiarot who got interresting returns last year too. It's not all negative, there is a nice young core of players a gm like Hughes can build on.
Yes, he did a few good things, but that is all we can agree on. Every once in a while you throw crap at the wall, some sticks.....
10 years of a flawed philosophy and riding a goalie, literally for the 10 years. We were awful without Price.....this is and was on Bergevin.
Glad he is gone...........................the horse is long dead, and we should not be beating it anymore.
Cheers...
 

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... wow

Seems like a lot of people don't know what an "Appreciation Thread" is.
 

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Yes, he did a few good things, but that is all we can agree on. Every once in a while you throw crap at the wall, some sticks.....
10 years of a flawed philosophy and riding a goalie, literally for the 10 years. We were awful without Price.....this is and was on Bergevin.
Glad he is gone...........................the horse is long dead, and we should not be beating it anymore.
Cheers...
Good thing he's gone. It looks bad when he have a good player who showed the whole league how good he was in play offs and then he let him walk for nothing. I'm talking about Danault. It's not like he didn't knew what he had in his hands, like when Gainey gave McDonagh. Let Danault walk at 29 yr is worse than let Markov walk at 37, when no other nhl team made him an offer.

But at least I can't name a single one good prospect he let walk or traded, except Kotkaniemi. He always kept his good prospect in the team. I guess they were tradable but I guess the tag price was high so that explain why he kept them.

I know he had a star goalie that he never used to go deeper in the PO or in the nhl standings. It was Price and the rest was so and so. Other teams have a star center or a star defenseman and nothing. Bergevin had stubborn ideas like loyalty. He was a kind of freak. His clothing style was revealing. His haircut too. And his oversize muscle arms. Good thing he's gone and I hope Molson learned a lesson.
 
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It's tough to say between which era of the Habs was worse; the late 90's early 00's era, or the Bergevin era. They both sucked.

Ultimately, I think what made the late 90's era feel more oppressive at the time was that we still weren't that many years removed from the Habs winning the cup, the Habs being great, the Habs being a living legends. There was this slow realization creeping in the collective consciousness that the Habs were no longer great, and probably wouldn't be great which was a tough pill to swallow. And here we are 20 years later.

I think the main difference between now and then is we've gotten used to mediocrity. Which says something about Bergevin, because despite decades of already being used to mediocre, he still stands out as perhaps being the worse GM in Habs history.
 
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Cole Caufield, Nick Suzuki, Kaiden Guhle, Arber Xhekaj, Jordan Harris, all the core youngsters other than Juraj Slafkovsky have been acquired by the Maestro.

We have a lot of great prospects, not the least Logan Mailloux, who was courageously picked by Bergevin amidst controversial waters.

It's time to cut the shit. It's been almost a year, and hating on Marc has no meaning or purpose any longer. Give the man his due. Almost everything exciting about the Habs right now are due to decisions taken under his reign. It's the truth and you know it.

Hughes and Gorton have done a pretty good job so far, but they're getting a lot of credit that belongs to MB.
That happens often, even to the best of us. I was working once for a dysfunctional organization with high turnover and was dealt with a big responsibility, although not explicitly stated anywhere. I had made significant wins, but to the expsense of others who feared for their positions. Eventually, my reputation got soiled, my ideas stolen, my inexperience showed and was let go. Let that be a lesson to everyone. People only remember your mistakes, so when s*** hits the fan, you run.
 

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The Gally contract was the result of the previous one, too much term, something like 3.5 for 5-6 years ? He was underpaid, could he really let his heart and soul guy leave ? Price contract was risky with the Kreider hit but again he was his bread and butter

Hoffman was brutal

Sergachev for Drouin also but did you see what TB give him lmao…

He made good calls like bad calls, i would not consider him worst than Houle and compagnie.
 

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I'd also like to congratulate him on his incredible work in creating a roster so bad he finally got fired, despite having been given more rope than any GM i've ever seen.
I don't see how this is a reply to my post other than you just bashing Berg to vent ;-;

He did it by unintentionally tanking. Not something to be proud of.

Anyways do we really need this thread? Let’s just move on.
results. We hadn't gotten it in 40 yrs.
 

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Cole Caufield, Nick Suzuki, Kaiden Guhle, Arber Xhekaj, Jordan Harris, all the core youngsters other than Juraj Slafkovsky have been acquired by the Maestro.

We have a lot of great prospects, not the least Logan Mailloux, who was courageously picked by Bergevin amidst controversial waters.

It's time to cut the shit. It's been almost a year, and hating on Marc has no meaning or purpose any longer. Give the man his due. Almost everything exciting about the Habs right now are due to decisions taken under his reign. It's the truth and you know it.

Hughes and Gorton have done a pretty good job so far, but they're getting a lot of credit that belongs to MB.

How about Timmins? How about the whole scouting team?.....do we give them some credit back, cause they were doing the job at scouting, not Bergevin.

Bergevin was in charge of surrounding and developing those prospect the best he can and at every turn, he put terrible coaches, no structure for development other than ''Attitude'', and no plan how to deal with young guy other than yell at them and called them out publicly like he did most of his top prospect........he was about the screw Caufield big time until new management came in and rectified the whole thing cause if it were for Bergevin, Ducharme would still be the coach and we would be calling Caufield another bust.

That's Hugues and Gorton that gave a environnent and coaches for developping those kids.

How funny Bergevin never really been able to develop ANY of his prospect while under Hugues and Gorton, they are pretty much all above expectation.
 

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How about Timmins? How about the whole scouting team?.....do we give them some credit back, cause they were doing the job at scouting, not Bergevin.

Bergevin was in charge of surrounding and developing those prospect the best he can and at every turn, he put terrible coaches, no structure for development other than ''Attitude'', and no plan how to deal with young guy other than yell at them and called them out publicly like he did most of his top prospect........he was about the screw Caufield big time until new management came in and rectified the whole thing cause if it were for Bergevin, Ducharme would still be the coach and we would be calling Caufield another bust.

That's Hugues and Gorton that gave a environnent and coaches for developping those kids.

How funny Bergevin never really been able to develop ANY of his prospect while under Hugues and Gorton, they are pretty much all above expectation.

This isn't the Timmins Appreciation Thread. Feel free to create one. This thread is about the Maestro for people who can appreciate the great core of young players he left us with, and the majestic beauty of his overall body of work.
 

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I don't see how this is a reply to my post other than you just bashing Berg to vent ;-;


results. We hadn't gotten it in 40 yrs.
Kid pulls the fire alarm at his school because he’s a jackass.

Little does he know there’s a fire in the basement at the time.

Is he a hero for pulling it or is he just a jackass?
 

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This isn't the Timmins Appreciation Thread. Feel free to create one. This thread is about the Maestro for people who can appreciate the great core of young players he left us with, and the majestic beauty of his overall body of work.
Yes the majestic body and the purple suits.Houle was worse by the way.Timmins deserves more credit than the bashing he took .He did ok in spite of Bergevin
 
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I don't see how this is a reply to my post other than you just bashing Berg to vent ;-;


results. We hadn't gotten it in 40 yrs.

Sorry bout that. Quoted the wrong post from you. You know how those things happen.. you scroll, read, go on and then you come back to quote a post and I made the mistake at looking only your name, not remembering seeing another post from you. I fixed the post.
 

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Kid pulls the fire alarm at his school because he’s a jackass.

Little does he know there’s a fire in the basement at the time.

Is he a hero for pulling it or is he just a jackass?
I'm not necessarily complimenting him. All I'm saying is that his competence lead to something we've needed for a long time. It was a + for the org.
 

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I'm not necessarily complimenting him. All I'm saying is that his competence lead to something we've needed for a long time. It was a + for the org.
It wasn’t his competence that led to us getting a number one pick.

It was his incompetence that did it.
 

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You know what they say, hate is close to love.

I feel there are A LOT of closeted Bergevin fans in this section.

This is the thread for you. Your time to shine. Bring the light.
 
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