I still stand by my statement. We saw the Analytics guy Pfeffer, get fired and Martin McGuire (?) get a gag order forced on him by the higher ups when he tried to break a story on Therrien and was subsequently fired. It is the institution that is preventing and punishing these gentlemen for speaking the truth when all they are trying to do is their job. The success and failures of the Montreal Canadiens do not fall on the backs of the media. That responsibility falls squarely on the shoulders of the owner and GM, Geoff Molson and Marc Bergevin.
Right and wrong at the same time.
The Habs have been a poor organisation before Molson and Bergevin got here. It's been 25 years.
Either it was Molson or Gillett, Houle or Bergevin....they all had the same problem, made the same mistakes:
They listened too much to the French medias.
Casual fans (And that include a lot of my friends/co-workers/Family) don't follow the Habs as most of us.
They often, if not always, repeat the same BS they heard on the radio. I listened to the same shows that they
do so it's funny when they simply repeat to me what was said on the radio or TV. Words for words sometimes.
For the Habs, it's all about their image so they do listened a lot to what the medias are saying, suggesting and wants cause by affiliation, that's the same thing the fans are saying, suggesting and wants.
Therrien stayed too long? French medias loved him until the very end.
Desharnais should have been put aside for Galchenyuk? French medias loved DD at center a lot.
Historic meltdown, French medias trashed Subban and Eller more than anyone.
Following summer, Subban and Eller were the only one traded.
French medias wants french players. So even if all those names were the last type of players this team needed, they still trade/sign/extend Briere, Parenteau, Desharnais, Bouillon, Drouin, Danault, Deslauriers....Byron speaking french is simply a coincidence, just like another coincidence Mitchell was born in MTL. Let's waste a good pick on Zachary Fucale cause you know....french medias kept talking about him all year long as the next Roy, even if goaltending was the last thing this team needed. Let's waste a pick on Leblanc, f*** what the scout thinks, it's what the medias thinks that matters.
There's not ONE player, ONE coach, One General Manager, ONE scout that actually thinks that speaking french is a hockey skill and matters. Not ONE of them thinks that it matters where a player is coming from...then why it matters for this organisation....Cause the french medias think it matters and sold that idea to fans so this dumb organisation follow the Medias' idea.
If those medias were selling something else, then this organisation would follow too.
So it's the organisation's fault to listen too much to the medias.....but it's the medias' fault to keep selling a losing culture and false idealogy to the fans.