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Gauthier in Hindsight
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Sorinth
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We would be fine cap wise we just wouldn't be able to add anyone this offseason. And in all honesty if we end up signing a guy like Bickell for 3.5-4m maybe we would've been better off keeping Cole anyways. But in any case if you think there was only 1 team out there that was willing to take a chance on a guy coming off a 35 goal season then I can't help you. There will always be a team looking for scoring that thinks all the guy needs is a change of scenery.
Kid Dynomite
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Yeah, Gauthier was great.
With him in charge, the team sucked, the culture sucked and the Habs finished 15th in the Eastern Conference.
Bring back Gauthier! I was dying for a mid-game trade anyway.
With him in charge, the team sucked, the culture sucked and the Habs finished 15th in the Eastern Conference.
Bring back Gauthier! I was dying for a mid-game trade anyway.
God what a stupid thread. The franchise is such a better place by far. Jeezuz stop complaining and support the team.
So many whiners and haters in here. I thought this was the Habs fans board? You want Gauthier back go support Toronto.
Top 5 drafts two years in a row. Much stronger front office. Top 5 team last year. Actually playing the young players. No stupid free agent signings that we will have to buyout.
So many whiners and haters in here. I thought this was the Habs fans board? You want Gauthier back go support Toronto.
Top 5 drafts two years in a row. Much stronger front office. Top 5 team last year. Actually playing the young players. No stupid free agent signings that we will have to buyout.
Yeah a mid game trade on our top free agent signing too. All ppl here want are amazing fre agent signings that will either be
1. Traded mid game
2. Bought out
Anybody wanting free agents go see Philly. $40,000,000 for 1.5 seasons of Bryzgalov. That's what we want? That's the same genius GM who just signed Vinny and traded away the Vezina goalie for nothing. and who traded the core of the Stanley cup champions for spare parts. That's who we're envious of here?
ClasslessGuy
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WhiskeySeven*
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Me and OneSharpMarble were called fools for stating that Gauthier was underrated.
Under his very brief tenure the Habs got bigger. Under Bergevin, the smallest team in the league, who gets bullied by it's two biggest rivals constantly, somehow impossibly got smaller.
Oh and we got chumped out of the playoffs in a pathetic manner, so the argument that skill > size doesn't really fly when you don't have enough skill on your roster to beat a team full of rookies and have to play Bouillon on the powerplay.
Trading and extending Drewiskie was one shrewd move, straight out of Ken Holland's book... ya mother-****er!
Under his very brief tenure the Habs got bigger. Under Bergevin, the smallest team in the league, who gets bullied by it's two biggest rivals constantly, somehow impossibly got smaller.
Oh and we got chumped out of the playoffs in a pathetic manner, so the argument that skill > size doesn't really fly when you don't have enough skill on your roster to beat a team full of rookies and have to play Bouillon on the powerplay.
Trading and extending Drewiskie was one shrewd move, straight out of Ken Holland's book... ya mother-****er!
WeThreeKings
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It doesn't matter who the GM of this team is. We've got some huge karma debt since Sam Pollock.
FlyingKostitsyn
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Ok. I think some super mod should lock the Habs board for a day or two and temporarily ban every Habs fans from HFboards.
Its getting ugly.
Its getting ugly.
Price My Man Crush
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You guys don't deserve a team that can win the Stanley Cup. You always complain about what the GM does, you just can't shut the **** up for at least a minute. You can't stop, uh?
Our 1st-round pick this year was McCarron and 5 minutes after the thread was created about him, A LOT of people were complaining and some were even saying he was a bust. What the hell? I mean, stop the overreaction. Saying that you wish Gauthier was still your GM when the Montreal Canadiens were the biggest joke of the NHL last year...is one hell of a joke.
Our 1st-round pick this year was McCarron and 5 minutes after the thread was created about him, A LOT of people were complaining and some were even saying he was a bust. What the hell? I mean, stop the overreaction. Saying that you wish Gauthier was still your GM when the Montreal Canadiens were the biggest joke of the NHL last year...is one hell of a joke.
SlyIslands
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The Habs got bigger by being the smalest team in the league. Yeah what a great point you made. I agree that Gauthier wasn't all that bad but your point is just terrible.
Whitesnake
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Not sure I get this...which moves did Bergevin made that ended up making the Habs much smaller than they were before? Was Gionta a Bergevin move? Was DD a Bergevin move? And then you bash the Drewiske signing....but he is a big man isn't he?
Funny thing happening in here....to proove how Bergevin sucks...suddenly the guy before HAD to be great? If proven that Bergevin do indeed suck....isn't it possible that both Gauthier and Gainey also sucked? Not sure I get this one. Was Houle great because people were unsatisfied of André Savard's work? Or when we finally thought Gainey was awful, did that make Réjean Houle's work better?
DAChampion
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Gauthier made the Habs bigger with the cammaleri trade, the Halak trade.
Gauthier went for Erik Cole on the ufa market. Mr. Charachter goes for Daniel briere.
Sorinth
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OneSharpMarble
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Under Gauthier we had our first season in what 20 years with 2 30 goal scorers and we acquired our most talented player in just as many years. We actually won a few trades, stockpiled draft picks and dumped cancerous players. None of that matters though because he traded for Kaberle lol
The same season where we finished the lowest ranked in XX years? Seriously?
I thought you said watsatheo licked boots, jesus.
OneSharpMarble
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The same season where we finished the lowest ranked in XX years? Seriously?
I thought you said watsatheo licked boots, jesus.
I totally forgot about that, kinda like how the NHL forgot about J. Martin. I guess the NHL decided to lose his number.
What are you his lost puppy? Get an opinion and don't just follow him around, it is pathetic.
I liked Martin but his style was kind of boring. Smart hockey man but not very adaptive it seems.
Either way, I'd bet JM gets a head coaching job before Gauthier gets a GM one. If you deny that then I don't know what to say.
Edit: FWIW, JM isn't getting a head coaching job any time soon.
Banjo Cat
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I wanted a change from Martin like most people here did. But I always liked him. I just thought he had lost the team and a change was needed.
