GDT: No One Care That The Habs Play Hockey

[vokiel]

Benn is playing like a baker...

 

[The Nightman]

This season is going to be great.

As fans, Bergevin getting fired should be our Stanley cup.

 

[OnTheRun]

Nice pass, Jordie.

 

[mariolemieux66]

Good job Bergevin!

 

[PhysicX]

It's preseason. No worries Price.

 

[Price is Wright]

I watched Jean Beliveau hoist the Cup in 1971. Grew up as a teenager witnessing a 60-8-12 season. Saw Guy Lafleur score his 50th goal against the Kansas City Scouts. In the 80's the Habs still had a damn good organization run by Serge Savard. The 93 cup win was unexpected but awesome to watch!
Since Ron Corey cleaned house the Habs have been average at best over the past 20 + years.

Geoff Molson is directly responsible for this mess when he hired Bergevin who then hired all of his pals. This nepotism continues today and seems to only be worsening. The 8 year deal for Price and the 7.8 owed to Weber until he is 40 were both horrendous investments.

Those who say it's only preseason and fans need to chill are partially right. My concern is how unprepared and undeveloped so many of our prospects appear when lined up against other team's prospects.

I read above that we have arrived upon our version of the Ballard era. This I agree with. Not a playoff team.

I think we're around the same age. I think you forget how truly bad the Ballard years were. Along with the Wirtz era of Chicago. This isn't that bad. I was an Islanders season ticket holder in the 90s. This team isn't close to that level of ineptitude and mismanagement.

Bergevin reminds me more of the late 90s/early 00s Vancouver Canucks with Brian Burke running the ship. He made some great deals and made the team a strong season player in a sea of powerhouses, but he was blind to certain issues with the club and refused to address them. His confidence in Cloutier was his greatest downfall. Burke made the Canucks good again after a dark period in the late 90s but he didn't make them great. But he was a good enough GM to walk into a flawed Ducks team and make them great.

That's where I see Bergevin. With all the friends he surrounded himself with, he's been around too long for anyone to challenge his way of thinking. He's never going to adapt or evolve. It's not like how Poile had to first introduce an expansion team to Tennessee and then he had to keep it floating during a potential relocation. Bergevin runs one of the biggest sports teams in North America with nobody to second guess him. He's never going to get better here. What we see is what we get.

 

[Tyson]

Senator prospect scores. McCarron late covering.

 

[Saint Patrick]

Marc “we have a much better team this year” Bergevin

 

[the]

Atleast our young prospects have character they said...

 

[CupInSIX]

Stone interfered with Montoya there.

 

[Beige Van]

Damn, getting taken behind the woodshed tonight.

I know it's only preseason, but it is super discouraging that none of our prospects are showing anything.

 

[MD thaivuN]

i guess we'll draft a good prospect this year

 

[OnTheRun]

we have zero puck moving defenceman. We have mete in the pipes and that's it.

Our teams has gotten worse in the last 4 years. Year after after.

Puck moving is the strength of the Habs defense... According to Bergevin.

So yeah, don't bother.

 

[Kimota]

Let me know when the pre-season is over.

 

[OldCraig71]

Marc “we have a much better team this year†Bergevin

He is blind.

 

[Nedved]

Apparently you don't really need them. Puck moving is overrated anyway, our forwards don't seem to be able to do it very well either.

It's hard when you can't transition from your own end. at all. I think bergervin is dillussional and has a touch of narcissism. He doesn't know how to build a team. The pk trade is already haunting us.

 

[CrAzYNiNe]

It's preseason. No worries Price.

Price also scores goals? This team, granted missing most of it's NHLers but if anyone thinks McCarron or De La Rose are going to turn into anything... Time to shine boys, not looking good.

 

[G0bias]

Alzner/Benn in any kind of meaningful role is gonna suck balls this season.

 

[Tyson]

What's the plan Marc?

 

[SquiddFX]

Let me know when the pre-season is over.

Wake me up when September ends

 

[NobleSix]

We cant create any offense.

This is different from the last 5 years how?

 

[vokiel]

He is blind.

No he's just following the PR script.

 

[Tyson]

i guess we'll draft a good prospect this year

Will it really matter?

 

[Legend123]

Didnt realize Been was playing for the Sens...

 

[Tyson]

Didnt realize Been was playing for the Sens...

Smart move by MB to protect him