Personally I just love the fact that the two guys who were unfairly painted as scapegoats have both gone onto cup finals in the past two years. It just underscores that we can't evaluate talent worth a damn. It also backs up what some of us have been saying for a long time now, our core was a lot better than the idiots in charge thought they were. If we'd used them properly then we would have gone somewhere.
And we SHOULD learn from this and put Chuck at centre now. Should've happened four years ago.
But we wont. We will continue to do things the wrong way because we aren't capable of learning anything. And if the last two cup finals don't underscore how stupid we've been, I don't think Molson will ever see it.
Sucks that the only victory we have here is in being right about how badly we've mishandled things. But at least it's something that can be thrown in the face of RDS the next time this crap happens.
Not only did they make it to the Cup finals, but they were instrumental for their respective teams making it there.
I don't think that Molson doesn't see it. He most certainly does. He just has too much money invested in Bergevin and the coaches, staff, etc.. that he thinks he can make up the lost playoff revenue with the money saved on Capspace and make it up to the fans with fan experience and hotdogs. If the GM really is just GM in name only then who's calling the shots? Molson? He's not a hockey guy, he's just a marketing guy. The Habs are the very definition of a listless rudderless ship with no direction.
Bergevin traded away all of the teams best playoff performers and the house of cards came crashing down to the surprise of no one. Even this cat plays Jenga better than Bergevin does. Or maybe Bergevin IS the cat since the cat is clearly a sore loser.