Really? Exact same situation? Roster has the same potential for growth?
What are you talking about Buffalo thought they'd get Matthews? They drafted 8th, Leafs finished last and drafted 1st. Tanking is the best odds of getting skill on your team.
Wait we’ll be having AV back next because there are only so many French speakers. In an alternative world I’d love Roy and Torterella here just to blow everything up and the French media, it would be like throwing a hand grenade in the boardroom and locker room and seeing who survives
The problem was Bergevin said Weber as a better replacement for PK when in Reality he is a stay at home blue liner who is very good at what he says on the tin, he was never a PMD. Vanisheretty hasn’t got a leadership bone in his body which proves you should never leave it to the team to vote for the captain
There should have been a President hired, inbetween MB and Molson, and this wouldn't have happened...MB is downright dumb, and arrogant at the same time...a combination that has led us nowhere...
Thanks to Price, if not for him, wow, what a bad show...that our guy has given us....worse than Gautier. Actually Gautier was brilliant compared to MB.
What do the Habs really have to lose trying this? MB's gigantic ego might take a huge hit if it worked but who cares about that.
This is the answer common sense dictates....... but MB...Marinaro and Nilan talking about Drouin and his center struggles. Marinaro asked Nilan if this were Galchenyuk playing this bad at center there would've been a move before now and Nilan said yes probably. Nilan said if Drouin were a winger it would free him up to do more things offensively but the Habs don't have any other center options.
My take is that Galchenyuk despite his defensive woes put up his best offensive numbers playing center and hasn't looked very good on the wings. Drouin has struggled adjusting to center and his offense has suffered and would likely look better on the wing and bring more offense there.
Here's a thought... Despite MB saying Galchneyuk isn't a center anymore you still maybe move Galchenyuk back to center again and Drouin to wing for a few games to AT LEAST give it a try.
The inbreeding approach to hiring must stop. Hire the best person available or this endless cycle of futility will continue. I have had the privilege and responsibility of leading and managing a number of large for profit and not for profit enterprises and have learned one truism: you're only as good as the people you hire. Pursue any hiring policy that does not use merit and capability as its primary criteria, and you will fail. And fail ignominiously. The team's ownership's penchant to ensure a French face to the franchise (at the cost of overlooking available non-francophone management talent) is a regressive and ultimately failing strategy. I fear that political correctness and collateral marketing concerns will continue to allow the 'guaranteed mediocrity' we have now come to regretfully expect.
