When I was reading McCarron's comments praising Bouchard, i couldn't help but look at them as a clear statement on how bad Lefevbre and other Bergevin cronies were. Just a horrible waste of many players' development years. Bergevin MUST be fired.
I took a massive amount of heat for speaking out on Lefebvre, moreso earlier as less and less gave me shit with each passing year of such poor results but still every year I would get harassed by a few posters for suggesting that he wasn't good at his job and at the very least wasn't helping matters enough to warrant keeping around.
It's also when I started to turn on MB, I wasn't for him being hired as I didn't want a rookie GM but I thought he was doing a solid job. It was his re-hiring and then even holding the position open for him as he waited to see if he could get an NHL job only to re-hire him again that really pissed me off and made me question his judgement.
That said I would have liked to see more changes in the Habs scouting department as Sweden and the Q scouts have just not done a good job. On the development side I don't know how much impact or say or what guys like Lapointe, the Cube, Ramage, even do. I was happy to hear Evans say he wanted to sign with us because we kept in touch with him each year, so at least they are keeping in contact with the kids.
At the end of the day we clearly needed our scouts to do a better job at both ends, pre draft and the pro side. We needed the development team to do better, we needed the coaching staffs at both levels to help these kids more then they did. Bouchard sounds like he knows what he is doing, at least they finally hired someone that had been a head coach at any level before. I think that's a great start.
Another big thing that I'm personally against is rushing 18, 19, 20 year olds to the NHL. We'll see if this has changed as I know the league is getting younger so you have to push these kids more, just prefer we take more caution then not.