And what happens if you don't believe the guy has any chance of learning from his mistakes and getting better? What if you think the longer he stays GM the harder it will be to rebuild properly because he continuously makes bad decisions?
I'm sure everyone wants this team to be a contender, personally I think every year Bergevin is in charge puts us one year further away from being a contender. The longer he stays the harder it will be for the next GM, so if having limited short term success extends Bergevin's tenure, like say Kotkaniemi being a #1 C right out the gate, it actually puts us further from contending because Bergevin is going to destroy other parts of the team, or being Bergevin will be simply do nothing while the window for contending closes.
It's easy for me really. I hope he does learn from his mistakes, I hope he does make great trades, I hope he does build a good team, etc...
At the end of the day saying "I hope he f***s up so bad we get set back a few years and then he gets fired" only to say "I hope the NEXT guy knows what hes doing" seems kind of...like an endless cycle.
As is I think MB should be fired and for the sake of not f***ing the team more I sure as f*** hope he doesn't do anything wrong going forward. I'm not going to hope he f***s up because what do we gain from it? We gain a new GM who is an unknown here who has to clean up a most recent f*** up.
It's like Gauthier to me when he got Kaberle for Spacek and all that. Thank god we have compliance buyouts...what if we didn't? Gomez, Kaberle, etc... disaster. We were lucky. A lot of the time the next GM will have to deal with shit like that and it will cripple a team's capspace or prospect pool.
By no means am I advocating MB stays. I'm just saying I'm not going to hope the GM cripples the team so that he gets fired. I hope for the best because we're screwed otherwise.