100% management. Have you ever experienced racism or bigotry? Unless you experience it first hand it's very difficult to quantify and explain. In only one year and a half Bergevin had traded away every black and russian player on the team.... including a Norris Trophy defenseman and 30 goal scoring Galchenyuk was the cherry on the Sundae.
Galchenyuk has been near point per game every single time he has played as a top 6 center. In one of his first stints at center where he played for about 12 games he did better than expected including scoring his first hattrick and the coach had told the media that Galchenyuk came to see him to let him know that he was more comfortable on the wing,.. just so that he could promote his teacher's pet and local french boy David Desharnais. Galchenyuk later confirmed this to be completely false and a lie. Think about it. Which player goes point per game and then asks the coach to be removed from the top line so that he could go back to playing with scrubs? How does that make sense? In the year he scored 30 goals, he only did it because DD got injured so Galch got promoted to #1C where he went on a ridiculous tear scoring majority of his goals on the back end of the season because of it. If DD does not get injured, Galch never even has that 30 goal season.
Montreal is currently being held hostage and being invaded by a foreign bacteria known as Marc Bergevin. Things are so bad in MTL right now that fans are wanting to get a GoFundMe going to put up some billboards around the city asking for the GM to be fired and wanting the owner to sell the team.
For the record this bias was not only against Galchenyuk. Lars Eller was also traded from a team that had no centers, he went on to have a career year and score the stanley cup game winning goal. The reason MTL would fail in the playoffs year after year is because management chose to go with 5'6 local french boy Desharnais as their #1C... here is a picture of what playing Desharnais in the playoffs looked like, this is the guy they chose over Galchenyuk and Eller...can't make this stuff up folks...