Wonder if the fans in Tbay were saying the same thing about management when they had Stanley Cup contender for a decade and won shit.
Capitals ...........how many presidents trophies before bowing out in the first two rounds every year?
Flyers had a top team for 20 years with out winning a single Cup.
As a Hab fan I would love to have Sweeney and Neely over Bergevin and Molson .......... all day long. Heck, out side the crease Bruins have iced at least 10 players that are better than any player the Canadiens have had in 20, maybe 30 years!
But I like how your fans keep the bar high. In Montreal if they almost make the play offs its a pretty good season, and Bergevin is "heading in the right direction"
Be nice to have a team where the narrative is not constantly on "prospects" and "the right way to build a team".
You guys have had a great decade of fantastic hockey. The Canadiens have been barely watchable for last six years.
Yes, and that makes you both spoiled, and greedy. I'll cop to it, since in the previous 34 years before Chiarelli & Julien's arrival, the Bruins were Frustration, Inc., and then Futility, Inc. under Sinden and OC.
Alternately, those who complain that the Bruins are not a Cup contender every year might remember that when Peter, and then Claude came to the Bruins, the franchise was a joke. No one wanted to come here.
They completely turned around the culture of the club, with vital assistance from peerless leaders like Z and Patrice. Up and down the line, Chia built a gritty, physical and relatively talented team that stood up for one another.
It was a glorious thing to witness.
I miss that. Really, really do. What I see now is, again, mediocrity, a Burns-imposed internal cap, dithering, and ultimate failure.
Sorry. Not sorry.