Monctonscout
Monctonscout
- Jan 26, 2008
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Bergevin is still in his honeymoon phase, where people are willing to forgive his failures:
- Subban contract situation
- Prust + Moen contracts
- Thought Shane Doan would be the answer
- No trades to improve the team thus far
- Hired his friends specifically for nearly all positions
- The circus in Hamilton
- Therrien
The Subban contract situation is all on Bergevin? News to me. Most organizations in this league want a short deal after the entry level, that's how it works. Players prove they can continue at a high level, and then they cash in. This situation would have been identical under any of our past GMs, or we would have overpaid him by now.
Prust and Moen? Prust fills an urgent need, and Moen has served admirably with the Habs so far. I don't see how their contracts are exactly a negative. Both are heart and soul players that we need more of.
No trades to improve the team a couple of months into his job, and there was a lockout for half of it! Oh no!
Hired his friends, like Rick Dudley who was widely praised as a great hiring? Or maybe Patrice Brisebois, who if you watch Road to the Memorial Cup on Sportsnet, you'd see he has actually been doing a very good job of meeting up with our prospects at their practices and helping them out.
What exactly has Therrien done so far that's so bad, either? We lost a one goal game to a team that was better than ours last season, and should be this season too. He's demanded a lot out of our young players, like we see with Eller tonight. He's holding every player accountable. Where is the issue with him one game into the season?
Good god you people love to overreact.
Bergevin is still in his honeymoon phase, where people are willing to forgive his failures:
- Prust + Moen contracts
- Therrien
Like I was saying...
I'm guessing Wilson wanted less Stortini/Hagel and more Leblanc.
Bergevin is still in his honeymoon phase, where people are willing to forgive his failures:
- Subban contract situation
- Prust + Moen contracts
- Thought Shane Doan would be the answer
- No trades to improve the team thus far
- Hired his friends specifically for nearly all positions
- The circus in Hamilton
- Therrien
Didn't Gauthier get vilified for that? I guess it's suddenly a great idea under Bergevin now.
The Subban contract situation is all on Bergevin? News to me. Most organizations in this league want a short deal after the entry level, that's how it works. Players prove they can continue at a high level, and then they cash in. This situation would have been identical under any of our past GMs, or we would have overpaid him by now.
Prust and Moen? Prust fills an urgent need, and Moen has served admirably with the Habs so far. I don't see how their contracts are exactly a negative. Both are heart and soul players that we need more of.
No trades to improve the team a couple of months into his job, and there was a lockout for half of it! Oh no!
Hired his friends, like Rick Dudley who was widely praised as a great hiring? Or maybe Patrice Brisebois, who if you watch Road to the Memorial Cup on Sportsnet, you'd see he has actually been doing a very good job of meeting up with our prospects at their practices and helping them out.
What exactly has Therrien done so far that's so bad, either? We lost a one goal game to a team that was better than ours last season, and should be this season too. He's demanded a lot out of our young players, like we see with Eller tonight. He's holding every player accountable. Where is the issue with him one game into the season?
Good god you people love to overreact.
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Still don't see anything inappropriate or not handled the right way
Didn't Gauthier get vilified for that? I guess it's suddenly a great idea under Bergevin now.
What?
Can't be unless this management is worst than the Houle management team. 'Cause not that long ago, Lefebvre had the visit from the Habs brass who textually said to go on and continue the way he was doing, that this year's was to give the kids some icetime and that only the development was important to this point. Which can't mean that Lefebvre didn't agree with the management, Wilson did, hence Wilson was fired? I do have 2 concerns though. My first is Avtsin. If it's really a development year and you don't care about the win/loss column, why the heck wouldn't you play him 60 minutes a game so that you are able to take a decision on him to either keep him or send him back in Europe. Makes no sense to me. Then, I don't agree that you could not have mixed development and winning. They could have added the vets needed to help the kids progress. All fun to develop in adversity but there's a freakin limit. Then....while most of us do not care, this is totally unfair to the Hamilton crowd. I,d be really curious if they would have had the nerve to have that "philosophy" in Laval....My bet is that they would not.
Remember the Leblanc rumours...I would not be surprised if eventually there is a full on revolt due to linguistic politics within our farm club...
I would be.
And what would be the revolt about? The all francophone coaching staff are being too hard on the francophone prospects?
That wouldn't be a revolt. That would be a civil war, right?
Bergevin is still in his honeymoon phase, where people are willing to forgive his failures:
- Subban contract situation
- Prust + Moen contracts
- Thought Shane Doan would be the answer
- No trades to improve the team thus far
- Hired his friends specifically for nearly all positions
- The circus in Hamilton
- Therrien
You're trying too hard.
A lot of these aren't even issues and the rest are overreactions. I'm not even a Therrien fan for example but what are you expecting? It's 2 games.
You're hopelessly confused.Failures after having played 1 game in a row. I don,t agree with how Subban is being handled, but it's not like we lost him already. You still have no idea how Prust and Moen will handle themselves. What's this Doan thing about? Is he part of the Habs and I don't know? No trades....after 1 game? Are you serious? Friends...as if nobody else does that? Circus in Hamilton, well like I said on the previous post, I don't necessarily agree with everything that is going on....But we will have to give those guys at least 1 year in a row to implement their stuff. And Therrien, well not a favorite of mine but he's a failure already?
Fire Lefebvre.
You're hopelessly confused.
My criticisms have nothing to do with the first game of the season. My analysis is based on Bergevin's decision-making, not on some statistical fluctuation of whether or not the team goes on a hot or cold streak in the first 10 games, something that could happen and does often happen under any GM.
I'm expecting our no. 1 dman to be signed, our better prospects in Hamilton to get ample playing time over Stortini, et cetera