Theodore450
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Well clearly what he inherited wasn’t good that my point. There’s no comparison between Juulsen and anything we had before. Josh brooks is on another level than Beaulieu and suzuki is better than anything we had at F. The reason he has nice prospect is because what’s happening is what should have been done. He should have tanked. We didn’t have a complete team. I’m sorry but Plek as a top c, the skillless Pac as your top fwrWhat he inherited was more than fine. Of course, revisionist history will skew that, but people were recently discussing that in other threads as well.
Go back to old threads, you will see people talk of Tinordi as an untouchable. Kristo was still believed to become a good pick up. Beaulieu had moved down and it was a complete blessing for him to be available to us. Leblanc was coming off a 22pt 31gp rookie year in the AHL and looked decent on our bottom lines, there was no reason to believe he was going to be hot garbage when Bergevin took over.
It's very little different than our current situation. Mete and Juulsen could very well be the new Tinordi and Beaulieu. Poe can be Leblanc. The addition is Suzuki, he's the one that really makes us more interesting, but then he was added because of Patches, who Bergey inherited.
So no, you're not being very objective here. You just tried to paint a very bad and bleek picture of what Bergevin inherited, not mentioned his many wrongdoings, and now applaud him because...well..Habs are a bubble team and have a couple nice prospects (which you would expect to be the case after finishing in the bottom 10 two out of three years...but hey..again..why mention that) .
The one dimensional Subban as your 1D doesn’t win you anything. I don’t care how good price is or how good Markov is. That teams not winning a cup. And no prospect was coming to save them. So yeah call it bleak. He inherited a crappy pool and a serverly flawed team.
I’m not gonna applaud him for his bad moves like allowing Therien to ruin Chuky
Or drafting Mccaron
Or signing Alzner
Or literally when he wasted FA by adding Murray parros
Holding Boullion too long
But I’ll aplaud him for where he’s at now, and that’s a team that’s looking to keep getting better.
Has he made mistake yes, but he’s Been patient building assets While dropping an NHL caliber roster each year. His mistake was not tearing it down from the start. And I’ll stick to that.