News Article: Bergevin Speaks to NHL network

[sampollock]

Actions speak louder than words,

So prove it

 

[DXStriker]

I am both excited for the amount of cap we have next year and terrified at the thought of what MB will do with it lol
Its a weird feeling .

 

[Bloumeister]

Internally as in the coaching staff/management or as in the dressing room?

Internally as in “I’m sick to my ****ing stomach”

 

[sampollock]

MB had cap room this year, fail

 

[Lebowski]

I am both excited for the amount of cap we have next year and terrified at the thought of what MB will do with it lol
Its a weird feeling .

He's on the lookout for the next Danny Brière already.

 

[Habs100]

That's his literal quote. No idea what he means.

He's being purposefully ambiguous. I would guess he means both. I'm sure there are changes he wants to make to the roster and I suspect also to management. One thing about Bergevin, when he doesn't like a player (Subban, Beaulieu, Erik Cole, Briere, Rene Bourque, Eller) he'll get rid of them, especially if he's worried about their contract.

 

[David Suzuki]

He's on the lookout for the next Danny Brière already.

chris kunitz

 

[Frozenice]

MB had cap room this year, fail

He gave the young players a chance to play, something everyone has wanted and we had to see what we had, I'm not as disappointed with the reason why he didn't use up the cap space. If something good comes along the cap space will be spent soon enough.

 

[Habs100]

He gave the young players a chance to play, something everyone has wanted and we had to see what we had, I'm not as disappointed with the reason why he didn't use up the cap space. If something good comes along the cap space will be spent soon enough.

That cap space should have been spent to resign Radulov and Markov. Radulov is worth 4 years 8 million AAV and Markov is worth 6 million, for one year, no performance bonuses.

Get rid of Shaw at the starting of the year and don't sign Alzner and there's plenty of room to pay Markov and Radulov what they're worth. Bergevin's an idiot. He doesn't know talent and he doesn't know how to build a team. Moslon's an even bigger idiot for thinking he does.

 

[Fozz]

European scouts would be a good place to start. I don’t even know who they have, but he seems to be garbage

What? The guy recommended Lidstrom 29 years ago.

 

[Price is Wright]

He doesn't say, but if we are to believe some beat writers, it will be upper management level guys. Fini le Country Club?

Eventually the team will look like the series finale of The Shield. Just Bergevin alone with nobody to turn to anymore.

 

[lo striver]

Internally as in the coaching staff/management or as in the dressing room?

"we will fix those broken urinals and renovate the whole dressing room this summer"

 

[lo striver]

It's the very same plan he had in his first day as a GM here... and he failed at it.

exactly. 6 years later, 0 progress.

 

[cphabs]

He is still wearing those "look at me i'm intelligent glasses". As we say in the maritimes, "what a rig".

LOL, the square ones are even worse.

 

[Habs Icing]

Whats your problem bro, i have similar glasses.

Chicks dig it.

And then bury it in a field far far away?

 

[OldCraig71]

LOL, the square ones are even worse.

He is quite the fashionista in his own eyes no pun intended.

 

[OldCraig71]

exactly. 6 years later, 0 progress.

Progress is overrated, we do have a plan and in time you will see it come to fruition and look back on today and feel bad for being so weak in character.

 

[Jee]

Can't wait for the annual washed up low risk/high reward UFA signing that will ultimately fail.

My money this year is on Yakupov

 

[Mrb1p]

And then bury it in a field far far away?

No, they bury it in something else

 

[ClasslessGuy]

at least he didn't say he wanted to draft Character

 

[Spring in Fialta]

I find it hilarious to have him say "build through the draft" consistently even after the Shaw debacle.

Bottom line is he has been here for 6 years now and he hasn't built anything.

Yeah, there's no emptier sentence in the NHL than build through the draft.

 

[ClasslessGuy]

Can't wait for the annual washed up low risk/high reward UFA signing that will ultimately fail.

My money this year is on Yakupov

How about Plekanec, Gorges and Fehr and Vermette?

 

[groovejuice]

He is still wearing those "look at me i'm intelligent glasses". As we say in the maritimes, "what a rig".

 

[OldCraig71]

at least he didn't say he wanted to draft Character

He already did just not today.

 

[Mrb1p]

Lol these are ugly as sin