You and I have different opinions of what a reset is then because to me trying to make the playoffs should only come after the reset has been completed otherwise its a middle of the road no direction strategy that hasn't in the entire history of the nhl ever worked.
"trying" to make the playoffs is something Bergeve SPOKE about...it's called setting a standard that you want your team to try to strive for.
Would you have preferred if he said that he wanted his team to be the absolute worse that they can be? I don't get it, since when is speaking into existence wanting to make the playoffs as a bad thing?
I bet if you asked 30 other GM's before the season started what their goal was, I'd wager the majority of them would say that making the playoffs was there goal.
But If making the playoffs was the absolute for Bergevin, you would have seen him be way more active at the trade deadline, he would have packaged the many picks we had at the 2019 draft, along with some of our prospects and moved them for short term help to get in the playoffs.
But we didn't see that did we?
No, instead, we saw him make depth moves which didn't cost much in terms of picks, then in the offseason, he continued his "reset" by moving Andrew Shaw, which for now should pave the way for one of the younger prospects to potentially grab a spot.
This doesn't seem like someone who doesn't know what direction he's headed in.
Like i'm not sure what the disconnect here is.
The GM told every Habs fans that he wants to make the team younger and faster...
So why are you perplexed when he trades Andrew Shaw???
Like he literally told you what he's trying to do lol