So called "house" broadcasters aren't going to bite the hand that feeds. Lavoie may be working for TVA but his employment is conditional. The Habs have the final say on who gets to cover their games so while the broadcast crew may wear TVA blazers, they are actually paid by the Habs. And if they fall out of favor with the Habs they are gone. It doesn't matter what TVA thinks or wants. Therefore, people like Lavoie are merely "reporters". They are not "journalists" in any sense of the term. Going to broadcasting school doesn't make you a journalist. The people reading the news at 6pm aren't journalists either; they're news readers. Reading the news as written by a producer or editor isn't journalism. It's news reading. Just like the eye candy weather girl doesn't have to be a meteorologist in order to tell you what the 3 day forecast is going to be.
The fact is that you can make a valid case for a lot of the deals Bergevin has made. It may not gain you much traction among Habs fans who are at their wits end with anything Bergevin does and are therefore predisposed to hating everything associated with him, but Shea Weber is a good player. Jonathan Drouin is a good player. So is Max Domi. You can argue about whether they are as good or better or worse than the players they were traded for. It is debatable but it's also still defensible. We need to ease up on the hyperbole when it comes to Bergevin. Trading Subban for Weber is not comparable to when the Leafs traded us Russ Courtnall (a player with talent) for John Kordic (who had no talent to speak of) or when Hall of Fame goalie Patrick Roy was traded for a nobody named Jocelyn Thibault. Bergevin is getting decent players in return. He's just not getting the right players and is creating more holes to do it. His asset management is terrible but the assets themselves have value (at least until they start playing for the Habs, that is)
