You’re entitled to call it what you like however, here is what Renaud Lavoie, who is not a Ranger insider, had to say about the situation between the Habs and Rangers only 2 days ago:
… je ne pense pas qu'il y a beaucoup de monde dans l'organisation des Canadiens présentement qui veulent aider les Rangers de New York.
Lavoie says that he doesn’t think that there are many individuals within the Habs’ organization currently, who want to help the Rangers.
Connecting the dots, that appears to me to say that a significant lot of individuals within Habs management is doing this in support of Gorton. I can’t recall there having been this kind of contentious relationship between the two teams prior to Gorton getting hired in Montreal.
From a pure fan standpoint, I’m hopeful for the ultimate best result in a Monahan deal and if that can be achieved with the Rangers, then there should be no non-transactional barriers to prevent it.
The bad blood and contentious climate (as raised by Friedman, Mercogliano and Lavoie within a short time of each other) is certainly not in either party’s best interests and one of them should be taking the high road and be putting an end to it.
