Marc Bergevin - Kickstart My Heart Edition

[Frank Drebin]

One can only hope that MB is getting replaced this weekend but I don't buy it but I have my fingers crossed. Roy taking over I'm not so sure about but can he be any worse that what MB is now?

Did we not say the same thing when Gauthier was replaced.

 

[OldCraig71]

Does Roy own a dog?

 

[SquiddFX]

Does Roy own a dog?

It's a mutt named Radulov.

 

[Captain Mountain]

Does Roy own a dog?

He's gotten into fights with co-owners, calls out players to the media, is highly adversarial with the media, wouldn't take an NHL head coaching gig (jumping right from major junior) unless he had a substantive voice in player personnel decisions and quit right before a season started because management stopped listening to his player personnel input.

You think he's going to be better than Bergevin when it comes to making comments to the media?

 

[Runner77]

Except with the announcement of Roy you've escaped into ... another sewer

Indeed.

You'll remember how after Andy escapes from the Shawshank sewer, he ends up at his dream location on the Pacific, Zihuatanejo?

And then you get a flashback where Andy states "You know what they say about the Pacific? It has no memory."

So he ends up at Zihuatanejo, which in real life, is a sewer:

The beach that Tim Robbins dreamed of escaping to in the 1994 film Shawshank Redemption has been closed to the public due to contamination.

The Mexican beach of Zihuatanejo, on the Pacific Coast, is where Robbins' character, wrongly-convicted Andy Dufresne, dreams of seeing out his days, fixing up a boat and taking tourists out for trips.

But anyone hoping to follow in his footsteps is advised to stay out of the water, due to high levels of pollution in the water which are causing health problems among the locals.

So, the analogy holds. Roy is the contamination.

We'll need the Pacific to help us forget how toxic Roy is and then some.

 

[WeThreeKings]

I'll be happy when Bergevin is fired. But it will be short lived joy like when Gauthier was fired, or Therrien, or Carbo, Or Julien, or Therrien or when Julien is canned again.

Because this organization never identifies actual brains.

 

[OldCraig71]

He's gotten into fights with co-owners, calls out players to the media, is highly adversarial with the media, wouldn't take an NHL head coaching gig (jumping right from major junior) unless he had a substantive voice in player personnel decisions and quit right before a season started because management stopped listening to his player personnel input.

You think he's going to be better than Bergevin when it comes to making comments to the media?

He would not be my choice and neither would Bergevin but sadly we don't get to make the choices but if it was truly about winning you would see Bergevin fired and Dudley take over for the remainder of the season. He would then use some of his resources to look for the best possible candidate and if need be, hire a translator or as someone else mentioned hire a french speaking president of hockey operations or maybe even the fresh approach of a partnership, Gm and associate like the Sens did coaches Boucher and Crawford, one being bilingual.

 

[SquiddFX]

He would not be my choice and neither would Bergevin but sadly we don't get to make the choices but if it was truly about winning you would see Bergevin fired and Dudley take over for the remainder of the season. He would then use some of his resources to look for the best possible candidate and if need be, hire a translator or as someone else mentioned hire a french speaking president of hockey operations or maybe even the fresh approach of a partnership, Gm and associate like the Sens did coaches Boucher and Crawford, one being bilingual.

I may be mistaken but I think Crawford speaks french as well.i remember reading that somewhere.

 

[OldCraig71]

I may be mistaken but I think Crawford speaks french as well.i remember reading that somewhere.

I realise that he does.

 

[durojean]

So... what was said on choi just right now.

The animator ( Dany Houde ) said that right now the quebec and montreal journal are on an investigation of a big name in sport. ( the same scandal that we've been threw all week ). He said that they are waiting for more source but there could be an announcement soon about that big name.

It's important that he never gave any name... but... And it is probably false anyway...

 

[Price is Wright]

I may be mistaken but I think Crawford speaks french as well.i remember reading that somewhere.

He used to coach the Nordiques and if I recall correctly is fluent in French. I think he would have got the job over Therrien back in 2012 if it wasn't for the ongoing Bertuzzi case.

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

So I get the reservations regarding Roy, but some of you throw him down the gutters before he even has had the chance to actually manage a team. A lot of you were ecstatic when MB came on board. I wasn't. But I was willing to see what he could bring before judging. The same should be extended to the next guy unless it's someone already hired into the foxhole.

Who knows what really happened in Colorado and how much was his and how much was Sakic. Thing is, I seriously doubt anyone sees Roy objectively right now, especially with our perception of big ego types in management.

 

[The Great Weal]

I'll be happy when Bergevin is fired. But it will be short lived joy like when Gauthier was fired, or Therrien, or Carbo, Or Julien, or Therrien or when Julien is canned again.

Because this organization never identifies actual brains.

Do you think Brisebois would be a good gm for the Habs?

 

[Price is Wright]

I get reservations on Roy, but unless Stan Bowman gets fired from Chicago, it's not like there's a great list of people to choose from, billingual or not.

 

[Harry22]

He's gotten into fights with co-owners, calls out players to the media, is highly adversarial with the media, wouldn't take an NHL head coaching gig (jumping right from major junior) unless he had a substantive voice in player personnel decisions and quit right before a season started because management stopped listening to his player personnel input.

You think he's going to be better than Bergevin when it comes to making comments to the media?

Couldn’t have said it better myself. Yet someone here keeps referring him as a God. If he becomes GM, this franchise will be atrocious for decades.

 

[blarneylad]

That's amusing because Bergevin spent the summer overhauling the D. The fruit of his labours are apples that fell to the ground in the fall that he collected in the spring.

I thought Alzner would be much better than he has been.

But I'm very pleasantly shocked at the play of Mete.

 

[McGuires Corndog]

Couldn’t have said it better myself. Yet someone here keeps referring him as a God. If he becomes GM, this franchise will be atrocious for decades.

If Bergevin remains GM this franchise will remain atrocious for decades.

I'm not saying Roy's the guy, but I am saying that Bergevin IS NOT the guy and we have over 5 years of precedence to confirm it.

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

I think we give Price too much credit. Try to get the guy fired who 4 months ago signed you to one of the most ludicrous contracts in the history of the league?

There's absolutely no way Price is somehow losing on purpose.

 

[Tighthead]

I’d take Roy as a President not involved with hockey ops. Figurehead/Spokesperson.

 

[Harry22]

If Bergevin remains GM this franchise will remain atrocious for decades.

I'm not saying Roy's the guy, but I am saying that Bergevin IS NOT the guy and we have over 5 years of precedence to confirm it.

If you track my post history you’d know I want Bergevin gone as much as the other one but replacing him with Roy would not be an improvement. We need someone with experience, not scared of rebuilding this team from the ground up.

 

[OldCraig71]

I’d take Roy as a President not involved with hockey ops. Figurehead/Spokesperson.

Was he interviewed for the job before Bergevin was chosen? I can't remember.

 

[Cole Caulifield]

I get reservations on Roy, but unless Stan Bowman gets fired from Chicago, it's not like there's a great list of people to choose from, billingual or not.

Stan Bowman just rode the wave. What has he done that's great ? The team core was already in place when he got on board (Hossa, Keith, Toews, Kane, Hjalmarsson, Seabrook, Sharp, Crawford, etc). His one notable acquisition is Panarin but they never won anything after he got him and then he dealt him away for a guy he got rid of. It's hard to make sense of anything he's doing.

 

[Cole Caulifield]

There's absolutely no way Price is somehow losing on purpose.

Agreed, he just isn't as good as you said he was.

 

[Frank Drebin]

There's absolutely no way Price is somehow losing on purpose.

Agree

 

[OnceWasNot]

Do you think Brisebois would be a good gm for the Habs?

BriseBois has a brain. So he won't be hired.