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In hindsight if those are his 5 worst moves he really hasn't been that bad afterall lol
Weber has been playing great hockey for Montreal. That trade may favour the Preds but only so slightly. Radulov should have been resigned, but to me he showed his true colours which was that he is a gun for hire.
Shaw has been a very serviceable NHL player. De La Rose, Fucale were former 2nd rounders that amounted to little to nothing. Lehkonen is earning his stripes and is still young his best hockey is only beginning. It was a bit of a wash since he moved Eller for two 2nds.
Letting Markov walk hurt more emotionally because he was such a longstanding Canadien, but his best hockey was long long gone.
Alzner..well that was a bad one.
My critism of Bergevin doesn't lie with single moves, but the collection of them. He let Radulov and Markov walk the same summer and replaced them with Hemsky and Streit. That was terrible he got caught with his pants down on that one.
Trading a LD prospect for a LW in Drouin was also a head scratcher because at the time we had Pacioretty and Galchenyuk already as LW.
1) Alzner we agree. It's horrible.
2) Weber vs Subban. Questionable move no doubt about it. But we got Weber. Could of been Hall for Larsson.
3) Markov. We were going to lose him to retirement regardless. Just sucks that Markov was not willing to take a base plus performance contract as a 39 year old. Chara did with the Bruins.
4) Radulov. I think Bergevin got upset when he didn't want to give a team friendly deal. His mistake was not willing to overpay slightly. Radulov would of re-signed if we gave him $7.5M and he would of been worth it.
5) Drouin for Sergachev. I'm OK with it. We got a very good young player that wants to play for the Habs. Can't wait till Drouin plays with a real top 2 center with Montreal.
Alzner and Radulov. Those two hurt. Imagine having Radulov in the mix with no Alzner? We would still have cap space left to go after other impact players