News Article: Marc Bergevin Briefing (Feb.15 /12:30 pm)

[SirClintonPortis]

Boudreau? The guy couldn’t even take a team that scored 300 goals a season to the finals. The guy sucks.

He does suck in the playoffs but he lets his boys play offense.

He's great for 2-3 years of the development curve.

Besides, we suck in the playoffs right now and are anemic on offense. We just get shut out twice in a row against mediocre teams in the playoffs.

 

[lamp9post]

How the honeymoon beginning of season has disappeared. I have to say I was optimistic with all the changes made, but low and behold the exact same results as every other season.

With next season being his last under contract, no time like the present to make a change. We can’t continue to bury our heads in the sand thinking that the problems from this franchise don’t start at the very top.

Yeah, seems like every year we hit a wall that we just can't recover from. Like other teams figure us out and all of a sudden we're out of answers. Seems like I hear the phrase "The solution is in the room" every year, yet we fail to find it.

 

[CrAzYNiNe]

Yeah, seems like every year we hit a wall that we just can't recover from. Like other teams figure us out and all of a sudden we're out of answers. Seems like I hear the phrase "The solution is in the room" every year, yet we fail to find it.

Last year covid found it for a play in round vs Pittsburgh. All our problems were solved... Until we met the Flyers.

 

[SirClintonPortis]

Last year covid found it for a play in round vs Pittsburgh. All our problems were solved... Until we met the Flyers.

Pittsburgh could be scored on and it was just containing the potent yet beatable batch of Crosby and Malkin and their no-name wingers.

Flyers had a triumvirate of defense freaks. Well Therrien isn't technically defensive, just incoherent.

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

Yeah, seems like every year we hit a wall that we just can't recover from. Like other teams figure us out and all of a sudden we're out of answers. Seems like I hear the phrase "The solution is in the room" every year, yet we fail to find it.

He will forever be remembered as the disaster artist

 

[Miller Time]

Running with 3 kids down the middle, that can't win a faceoff... your team is constantly starting from a position of weakness, and trying to get posession again. Your other C is an enigma, doesn't score, wants a lot of money because Nate MacKinnon says he's awesome. It was never a good idea not to address the C position , for year number 1o in a row... Suzuki and JK are asked to do too much as 1 and 2.

Bingo...

Would've been fine if the framing/expectations of the year was growth & development... A "let's see what happens" kind of season.

Instead, he fed a narrative that the roster is ready to improve on the mirage that was last year's playoffs (a freak situation in a year that we were realistically a lottery team)... Expectations & pressure not matching the reality that we are not a playoff caliber team down the middle & top-4 d unless we get unrealistically great performance from a bunch of early 20-year olds (JKO, Romanov, Suzuki & Mete)

 

[Habs]

Bingo...

Would've been fine if the framing/expectations of the year was growth & development... A "let's see what happens" kind of season.

Instead, he fed a narrative that the roster is ready to improve on the mirage that was last year's playoffs (a freak situation in a year that we were realistically a lottery team)... Expectations & pressure not matching the reality that we are not a playoff caliber team down the middle & top-4 d unless we get unrealistically great performance from a bunch of early 20-year olds (JKO, Romanov, Suzuki & Mete)

When I watch the highlights, we score a lot of goals when we win the draw, and we defend well when we win the draw. Suzuki is 36%, JK is 46%, we are always starting from a position of weakness in the offensive zone. In the defensive zone Danault is above 50%, the rest are below.. that is f***ing scary and really is putting the blame on the coaches and players, when old numbnuts should be accountable. Bergy left both zones to be controlled at the hands of 3 very young kids, and it is mind blowing how he ever thought that was a good idea.

 

[CHfan1]

When I watch the highlights, we score a lot of goals when we win the draw, and we defend well when we win the draw. Suzuki is 36%, JK is 46%, we are always starting from a position of weakness in the offensive zone. In the defensive zone Danault is above 50%, the rest are below.. that is f***ing scary and really is putting the blame on the coaches and players, when old numbnuts should be accountable. Bergy left both zones to be controlled at the hands of 3 very young kids, and it is mind blowing how he ever thought that was a good idea.

Do you mean yesterday or for the season?

Because for the season these are the defensive zone faceoff %’s:

Evans: 53.3
Danault: 48.6
Kotkaniemi: 48.3
Suzuki: 45.6

Where a player like Kotkaniemi really struggles is in the neutral zone faceoffs

 

[Miller Time]

When I watch the highlights, we score a lot of goals when we win the draw, and we defend well when we win the draw. Suzuki is 36%, JK is 46%, we are always starting from a position of weakness in the offensive zone. In the defensive zone Danault is above 50%, the rest are below.. that is f***ing scary and really is putting the blame on the coaches and players, when old numbnuts should be accountable. Bergy left both zones to be controlled at the hands of 3 very young kids, and it is mind blowing how he ever thought that was a good idea.

Murray, Parros, Briere...
Ott, Martinsen, King...
Benn, Alzner...
Drouin, Domi...

I'd say MB's track record of poorly assessing & attempting to fix the roster holes is well established. No place for suprise at this point, he simply doesn't have a good grasp at how to improve areas of need.

He shuffles and reshuffled and reshuffles with such frequency that, occasionally some bargain moves pay off individually. But the sum of the parts continuously prove to be mediocre, and if is given much more leash, he'll inevitably squander the current stable of young talent (accumulated at the cost of icing 4-5 years of non-playoff rosters) just as he did with the assets at his disposal in his first 4-5 yrs.

 

[BigDaddyLurch]

Do you mean yesterday or for the season?

Because for the season these are the defensive zone faceoff %’s:

Evans: 53.3
Danault: 48.6
Kotkaniemi: 48.3
Suzuki: 45.6

Where a player like Kotkaniemi really struggles is in the neutral zone faceoffs

Quoted for TRUTH...Danault hasn't been the "faceoff wizard", hasn't played well defensively at all this year, and is THE PIT OF NO RETURN offensively, so why does he still get 17-18 minutes a night and a collection of our best wingers??...Jake Evans has been the better player this year, Kotkaniemi has been the better player this year, yet both have to scrounge for ice time behind The Black Hole every damn game...Corey Perry has been a more valuable player this year for the Habs, ffs...are the Habs playing to be contenders or to stroke Phil's fragile ego??...

 

[c3z4r]

The combined cap hits of Price, Weber and Gally will account for 30.5% of the cap next year (if it stays at 81.5M) and something close to that for the next 5 years. It doesn't matter if we change the GM, the team will be handcuffed by these long extensions/contracts that MB has handed out.

 

[Habs]

Do you mean yesterday or for the season?

Because for the season these are the defensive zone faceoff %’s:

Evans: 53.3
Danault: 48.6
Kotkaniemi: 48.3
Suzuki: 45.6

Where a player like Kotkaniemi really struggles is in the neutral zone faceoffs

I mean both zones, but the offensive zone is killing us. Toronto really thrives because JT always gets the puck to them, or at least 60% of the time. That is amazing. Offensive zone starts are almost always going to their blueline and control the puck. We chase the puck in every zone, and especially the PP where we lost the draw and we have to go all the way back and setup again. Years ago they had to bring in Perrault to help and immediately the team started putting up more goals.

So when we play Winnipeg we will be in trouble as well, they are quite good down the middle.