I personally think this team is to flawed to fix. But try telling that to management who are more worried about theirjobs. If we're going to be mediocre, I'd much rather have Carey steering the ship and keeping us competitive then constantly just missing the playoffs.
But the "competitiveness" that Price provides, absent adequate team support, is an illusion. It's a first round or second round exit,
at best, every year he's in Montreal. It's another high teens, twenty-something draft pick that yields just another mediocre prospect. It just drags out the decline, until the day Price can no longer perform at a high level, and then suddenly there's next to nothing left and the team crashes hard.
But in my view, that crash
must happen. The Canadiens have to sink, like a stone, fast and violent, and it has to wake up everybody in the organization, around the organization, in the media, in the alumni.
Everyone. To the fact that the Canadiens have been running on a treadmill for over 20 years and will continue to do indefinitely if they continue doing business as they have done.
Not that it matters. I don't think anything's going to stop it. Bergevin's a tool and Molson is an empty suit. Nobody at the top of the organization thinks there's anything wrong. Price will get signed, the Habs will "compete" for a few more years, while winning nothing of importance, the organization will spout platitudes and cliches, and the mediocrity train will keep on rollin'.
Anyway. Price should wake up and get the hell out of Montreal before it's too late for him to win a Cup. Lundqvist's fate should be a precautionary tale for him.
