Which GM was better at assembling 4th lines: Gainey, Gauthier, or Bergevin?

[DAChampion]

The 4th line is the only aspect of team building other than goaltending in which the Habs are ever elite. Please discuss which recent GM most excelled in this area.

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[the]

Dominic Moore was one of my favorite 4th liner.

 

[ahmedou]

2003-2009

 

[Le Barron de HF]

As I've always mentioned, this is one of MB's forte and my reasoning as to why he'd make a very good assistant. He hardly ever gave anything of value for those players unlike Goat with Moore.

PS: Smolinski was hardly noteworthy except vs NJ.

 

[the]

Even if Bergevin is the 4th liner expert and should be winning this, there’s something in me that can’t vote for him.

Went with uncle Bob.

 

[BehindTheTimes]

Even if Bergevin is the 4th liner expert...there’s something in me that can’t vote for him.

I just don’t like this GM

Went with uncle Bob.

MB signs a lot of 4th liners, I just dont remember him ever signing the right 4th liners, so I object to the notion that he's even good at this. Usually we get worse after MB touches something and that includes the 4th line.

 

[BaseballCoach]

Dominic Moore was one of my favorite 4th liner.

Moore was the 3C and Metropolit the 4C

 

[Le Barron de HF]

MB signs a lot of 4th liners, I just dont remember him ever signing the right 4th liners, so I object to the notion that he's even good at this. Usually we get worse after MB touches something and that includes the 4th line.

Weal, Weise, Thompson, Mitchell, DLo (1st year), Fleischmann, Danault, Byron, Kassian, Prust...

 

[26Mats]

Weal, Weise, Thompson, Mitchell, DLo (1st year), Fleischmann, Danault, Byron, Kassian, Prust...

I think our 4th line is now: Dlo/Byron Poehling Weal. That's pretty darn good.

Behind:

Tatar Danault Gallagher
Lehkonen Domi Shaw
Drouin KK Armia


But the 2nd and 3rd lines need work.

 

[ThaDevilGirl]

Look at this face

 

[Tanknation]

Lol this whole thread

 

[Stive Morgan]

Moore, Metro, and Lapierre are the Holy Trinity of Habs 4th liners in the 21st century

 

[Grand Admiral Thrawn]

I went with Bob simply because I loved Lapierre

 

[Kriss E]

This thread only shows how easy it is to find good bottom liners.

 

[MarkovsKnee]

Can't believe we're having this discussion, but Bergevin sucks at finding 4th liners.

Lapierre, Moore, Metro and, heck, even Streit were far better than anything MB has put together.

Gainey knew how to put together a 4th line that could push the pace the other way, cycle the puck in the offensive zone to tire Ds and generally play well defensively and pk (or PP for Metro & Streit).

 

[sharks9]

Dale Weise is the best 4th liner acquisition any of these GMs made. Playoff hero that eventually turned into a young, two-way center.





I'll also always love him for annoying the shit out of Lucic in 2014

 

[NobleSix]

It seems like we have a new 4th line every five minutes under Bergevin, and I can't say there are too many iterations that i'd consider as particularly memorable for their effectiveness.

Also, I wouldn't say that Bergevin creates 4th lines. Its more or less the line where all of his failed acquisitions and reclamation projects just end up.

Ill go with Gainey in this poll. Mostly for nostalgia, but also because of Lapierre, Smolinski, and Metropolit.

 

[Runner77]

Best jab at Bergevin disguised as a thread.

 

[Spearmint Rhino]

Bergevin finds lots of 4th liners except with the holes in the rest of the lineup and bizarre coaching decisions they've always percolated to the top lines and PPs

 

[Scintillating10]

Gauthier was so terrible I think Moore was a fluke

 

[Le Barron de HF]

For those that voted Gainey, A) Lapierre was drafted so it should actually be Timmins getting credit here and what's so special about Smolinski? Montreal was the last NHL team he played for since nobody wanted him the year after.

 

[BehindTheTimes]

Weal, Weise, Thompson, Mitchell, DLo (1st year), Fleischmann, Danault, Byron, Kassian, Prust...

Only took 7 years, how about King, Ott and the entire cast of slugs he's acquired over his tenure?

 

[Le Barron de HF]

Only took 7 years, how about King, Ott and the entire cast of slugs he's acquired over his tenure?

Two can play at that game: Downey, Murray, Lindsay, Dwyer, Dowd, Langdon, Dandenault.

 

[jaffy27]

Is this really a thread??

Seems like another excuse to prove who was worse........

Self banning myself from this thread.....happy Easter weekend everyone

 

[BehindTheTimes]

Two can play at that game: Downey, Murray, Lindsay, Dwyer, Dowd, Langdon, Dandenault.

Fair enough. I still don't see our 4th line being all that great, Byron is not really a 4th liner and in order to improve the team, ie acquire game breaking talent Byron will not be able to remain on the 4th line imo. Plus he brings more to the table, at the very least he should slot into the 3rd line. Having 3+ million dollar players on the 4th line is not good roster building.