Xspyrit
DJ Dorion
Under Marc Bergevin, the Habs had a .625 pts% and made the CF and SCF.
In 5 of 9 seasons they finished with (or played at a pace of) more than 100 pts.
Not that terrible...
For reference, this franchise hasn't finished a season with 100+ pts since 2006/07. That's 16 years ago. John Muckler was the GM.
Imagine what Bergevin could have done without Trevor Timmins. Keeping him was his biggest mistake IMO. His trades (outside of Drouin) and signings (until some later) were great. He kinda of « lost it » towards the end with Alzner, Anderson, Gallagher. Mailloux was a wtf moment but he just got cleared to play in the NHL. His other biggest mistake was to not re-sign Danault
People will criticize him based on things like Drouin and Gallagher but often won’t look at the bigger picture… I mean he took an awful drafting team that didn’t have that much outside of Price, Subban and Pacioretty and other aging vets and had some pretty respectable results
I’m less concerned with mediocre points percentages and a couple of improbably runs. I’m much more concerned with the massive blunders at he draft and trade table when the team needed a boost most.
Just a classic example of a guy who just couldn’t capitalize on his good moves due a subsequent terrible move.
No thank you. I’d prefer something different. We have an awesome core and the wins and win percentage will come no matter who is at the helm, unless they are known to make some pretty brutal moves.
Bergy has some Milbury in him in my opinion. I’m cool if you’re cool with him though.
0.625 P% would be anything but mediocre, it would have been 7th overall from 2012-23 to 2020-21. That said, I think Jody made a mistake, their P% during that period was 0.566, which was good for 14th overall.
You say this as if the current team that we have that took 6+ years to build (despite probably the best starting wealth in history) will easily have better than this mediocre 0.625 P%. That’s quite the expectations
Habs were a bubble team under Bergevin all these years but had some satisfying results in that context. The weakness was definitely their drafting, which was so weak for a decade after their great 2007 draft
But to say that Bergevin has some « Bergy has some Milbury in him » when we have been stuck with Pierre Dorion for 7+ years is quite ironic lol