Would have been preferable but there are a lot of NHL teams that don't have an AHL GM.
If your AHL GM is going to be Larry Chuckles Carrière, an empty chair is a better choice.
I don't understand why so many dislike De La Rose.
Yes, he hasn't produced much offense, but he's never had the opportunity to do so. He was always playing ahead of his age, or playing with Lefebvre.
Another thing too with the farm team being in Montreal it allows management to have easy access to how things are progressing in Laval so a formal GM isn't required. That said the Habs would be wise to hire a young/up incoming hockey executive to be GM in Laval like what the Leafs did with Dubas. There's no harm in it and could be quite beneficial.
Music from that thing was stolen from an elevator and mixed in a porn film studio.
"This is the room where Lefebvre hid after games. This over here is the room where he threw darts on the wall, to come up with his lineups -- you can still see holes in the drywall.
To the left now, this is the room Larry Carrière would visit but we'd always find him sleeping on one of the massage tables.
At the end of this corridor, this is the attitood room -- players who really care, are always on the bikes and throwing F-Bombs within earshot of our assistant coaches, now that's showing you care."
Music from that thing was stolen from an elevator and mixed in a porn film studio.
"This is the room where Lefebvre hid after games. This over here is the room where he threw darts on the wall, to come up with his lineups -- you can still see holes in the drywall.
To the left now, this is the room Larry Carrière would visit but we'd always find him sleeping on one of the massage tables.
At the end of this corridor, this is the attitood room -- players who really care, are always on the bikes and throwing F-Bombs within earshot of our assistant coaches, now that's showing you care."
For real...If that horrendous video is an indication of Molson's re-commital to quality, we're all doomed. Laughably incompetent and lacking any vestige of creativity.
I did like the casting of Bergevin as the stiffened zombie though. He blew the shot where he looked at the camera though. Amateur.
They've actually managed to insult elevator music @Runner77.
Completely fulfilled my expectations. New era, my ass.
Is he gonna be the worst coach ever if his team misses the po next year? Asking for a friend...
Honestly, this is prefab stuff a la Quik, the stuff that I use for my travel videos. And I'm lousy at it.If that horrendous video is an indication of Molson's re-commital to quality, we're all doomed. Laughably incompetent and lacking any vestige of creativity.
I did like the casting of Bergevin as the stiffened zombie though. He blew the shot where he looked at the camera though. Amateur.
They've actually managed to insult elevator music @Runner77.
Completely fulfilled my expectations. New era, my ass.
It's so bad. lolHonestly, this is prefab stuff a la Quik, the stuff that I use for my travel videos. And I'm lousy at it.
Bouchard will be blameless while Bergevin is gm.Is he gonna be the worst coach ever if his team misses the po next year? Asking for a friend...
If Bouchard puts his best playmaker on the 3rd line and waits more then half the season to figure out he should be with his best snipers, he'll get bashed and deservedly so. If he takes one of his most skilled players and removes him from the PP and drops him to the 3rd line while having one of the worst PP's in the league, he'll get bashed and deservedly so. If he lets prospects sit in the press box for far too long while playing crappy no talent AHL grinders who have no future with the Habs, he'll be bashed and deservedly so.
No one gets a free pass, I don't care what anyone's name is, who they are. I am just a big fan of our AHL team and want to see them make good decisions with our prospects and hopefully win games as well but that's not overly important to me. I want to watch a team that you can see making progress, improving, not running around in their own end like a tire fire but not improving over time. A roster that makes sense, and a coach that when he talks hockey it actually sounds like he knows what the **** he's talking about.
Your analyses and summaries have been of great value in the past several years here. It is because of you that I know that Lefebvre was a bad coach, if it were just the media I would not be and in fact could not be sure. For example, it is from your posts that I learned that Kyle Hagel and Zack Startini got a lot of power play time in the first year, and that Scherbak has been tried at a bunch of different positions.
Thanks. It's crazy how much heat I took from a few posters every year but just as crazy that MB didn't see any issues with what was happening down there since they continued to repeat their mistakes. I don't mind mistakes, they happen to everyone but it's repeating them over and over that drive me nuts. I'm excited for the season to start as I so look forward to watching a Laval team that hopefully is just a much better coached team.
If Bouchard puts his best playmaker on the 3rd line and waits more then half the season to figure out he should be with his best snipers, he'll get bashed and deservedly so. If he takes one of his most skilled players and removes him from the PP and drops him to the 3rd line while having one of the worst PP's in the league, he'll get bashed and deservedly so. If he lets prospects sit in the press box for far too long while playing crappy no talent AHL grinders who have no future with the Habs, he'll be bashed and deservedly so.
No one gets a free pass, I don't care what anyone's name is, who they are. I am just a big fan of our AHL team and want to see them make good decisions with our prospects and hopefully win games as well but that's not overly important to me. I want to watch a team that you can see making progress, improving, not running around in their own end like a tire fire but not improving over time. A roster that makes sense, and a coach that when he talks hockey it actually sounds like he knows what the **** he's talking about.
Are you ****ing serious? For real?
They need to stop rushing 19/20 year olds to the NHL. Let them learn under Bouchard, enough with the yo-yoing.
It's worth noting those two guys filled boxes that the others didn't: they had size and could play bottom six roles which are things our organization have coveted a lot and given plenty of auditions in the MB regime. That being said, I stand with montreal that it was foolish to yo-yo them like that.Are they doing that though? Mete couldn't play in the AHL, was probably too good for the OHL and filled a hole that Montreal desperately needed filling. Juulsen was called up due to injuries. Scherbak only got 3 games in the NHL before this season.
The only guys they really screwed around with early were DLR and McCarron. That was a mistake, but not one they've repeated a ton lately.
They need to run the farm team(s) better in terms of NHL depth AND development, but the yo-yoing isn't that terrible.