Why are we still here?

[Shabs]

I don't think that it really has much to do with a difference of opinion, you have to remember that we are in a 31 team league, it is a competition and when you see a guy like Bergevin that is taking a promising team that he inherited and basically run it into the ground it is going to stir up some angry reactions amongst fans.

Maybe I AM overthinking it. I’m shut in all day because of the weather and hiding from my wife who wants to do spring cleaning. She isn’t listening to my argument that it’s not Spring.

 

[No More Subban]

Being a Habs fan lately is making me more of a hockey fan. I've been following the Blackhawks (since 2013) and Predators (Subban) a lot in the past 2 years.

 

[G0bias]

If Bergevin is still GM on July 1st I'm done.

It's pretty much a foregone conclusion but I'm giving Molson a chance to change his mind. If Bergevin is still GM on free agency day I'm done.

Has a GM or coach ever been fired after having been confirmed to stay at the post-season PC?

 

[webersshot]

Honest question.

Why are you still a Habs fan? What keeps you around?

I’m starting to seriously question my fandom to this franchise after the events of this week, and the rumours about Lefebvre getting promoted. For the first time in my life, I’ve considered leaving this team in the dust.

The owner is clearly as incompetent as the GM, and the indication right now is that isn’t changing any time soon ...

To ask why you’re still a fan of the habs is to ask why anyone is a fan of any group of individuals whom they’ve never met and who’s failures they have literally no control over, and who’s succces is not ours.

Every team in the history of teams is going to succeed and suck. And there’s nothing any of us can do but watch. Bergevin made some stupid choices I hate and yet I can say with complete certainty that he wants this tram to win and he’s going to try and add more talented players. He might run it into the ground or he might sign Tavares and draft a stud with our first. The players play.

Remember when George McPhee traded Forsberg for erat. Lamoureillo gave Kovalchuk 17 f***ing years. Yzerman drafted Brett Connelly. David Poile spent 30 f***ing years as a gm before making the finals.

It is a parity league. Bergevin is not wrong in that. I don’t have any more faith in anyone they bring in. They’re all just making the best choices they can. No gm deserves as much credit they get for the masterful decisions they make or the hate for the ooor ones. I know a lot of people are gonna disagree but they are ALL hired to be fired

 

[admiralcadillac]

Are you a fan to watch a winning team or a fan to cheer for a team?

 

[OldCraig71]

Maybe I AM overthinking it. I’m shut in all day because of the weather and hiding from my wife who wants to do spring cleaning. She isn’t listening to my argument that it’s not Spring.

Does she have a difference of opinion?JK

 

[Simarino]

Are you a fan to watch a winning team or a fan to cheer for a team?

I just dont like encouraging total incompetence!! Show me you have some kind of direction, a logic, a plan and ill cheer for my team even if we're a bottom feeder.

 

[loudi94]

The whole post you had me reexamining my own beliefs but right here you stepped off the soap box. We suck and it has nothing to do with social media, this place is no different from Barber shops or coffee shops from the 70s or 80s, fans passion runs deep and especially the passion ingrained in the fan base of the most storied franchise in the entire hockey world.

We do suck, but the degree to which we suck and why is what those barber shops would talk about. Do you really think those discussions involved the degree of vilification that exists now? Civil discourse among people with differing opinions is lacking. If we all posted as if we were sitting together, things would probably be way more pleasant.

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

Are you a fan to watch a winning team or a fan to cheer for a team?

Both.

Just not a fan of pissant management

 

[OldCraig71]

We do suck, but the degree to which we suck and why is what those barber shops would talk about. Do you really think those discussions involved the degree of vilification that exists now? Civil discourse among people with differing opinions is lacking. If we all posted as if we were sitting together, things would probably be way more pleasant.

You probably just described the world.

 

[Runner77]

The day he is fired, we should all get together for drinks

... at jaffy’s house

Jaffy is probably going to insist that we meet at Kabana's.

 

[loudi94]

You probably just described the world.

Yep. I suppose I did.

 

[Runner77]

Can we compromise for Cabana's?

I just posted a similar comment without having had the benefit of reading your post, lol.

The Romanian GF and Kabana's will never die.

 

[Runner77]

Im here for the 'fan experience'

Here for Groove's virtual food, which needs no improvements unlike the other guy's.

 

[Price is Wright]

Has a GM or coach ever been fired after having been confirmed to stay at the post-season PC?

Probably not, but a lot can change in 3 months.

Geoff might be listening to the interviews Marc has been doing and wake up.

If not, no point following this team anymore.

 

[Runner77]

1-0 Tampa, Brayden Point, love the kid. Beautiful skating and a quick shot!

Wait -- are you sure you wanted to post that in this thread?

So, in response to the thread subject about why you're here, it's to provide score updates from other teams?

 

[Per Sjoblom]

Wait -- are you sure you wanted to post that in this thread?

So, in response to the thread subject about why you're here, it's to provide score updates from other teams?

Oops. I edited it, wrong thread. Thanks for the Hawk eye!

 

[G0bias]

Probably not, but a lot can change in 3 months.

Geoff might be listening to the interviews Marc has been doing and wake up.

If not, no point following this team anymore.

I mean it won't but if it ever happens this summer it likely won't come from Molson himself (he's just as delusional) but the rest of board ordering for a change.

 

[bsl]

Honest question.

Why are you still a Habs fan? What keeps you around?

I’m starting to seriously question my fandom to this franchise after the events of this week, and the rumours about Lefebvre getting promoted. For the first time in my life, I’ve considered leaving this team in the dust.

The owner is clearly as incompetent as the GM, and the indication right now is that isn’t changing any time soon ...

Because the sun rises in the east and I was born in Montreal and I love the Habs. I have no choice and am glad of it.

 

[Miller Time]

Don't worry guys:

posts like that are exactly why journalists of that nature aren't worth paying any attention to... stats are a dangerous thing when used by people who fail to understand the importance of context.

 

[Miller Time]

@Grant McCagg aka McHack

Maybe you should look at where they are each trending...

And comparing Poile's entire tenure? He built from an expansion draft in a cash strapped market, whereas MB inherited a perennial 100 points team (that was missing its MVP) and turned it into crap despite being able to spend to the cap limit.

exactly...

it almost defies comprehension how a person who spends their professional career immersed in an industry could have such poor understanding of it.

 

[Tyson]

“Molson is undertaking a great case study in how to destroy a brand.”

Well said

 

[Cobra Commander]

posts like that are exactly why journalists of that nature aren't worth paying any attention to... stats are a dangerous thing when used by people who fail to understand the importance of context.

Not failing, they are manipulating it, morons eat that s*** right up.

 

[McGuires Corndog]

Watching Colorado vs Nashville right now just furthers my point.

This is actually fun to watch!

 

[The Great Weal]

Watching Colorado vs Nashville right now just furthers my point.

This is actually fun to watch!

Yeah, but this board would be so boring.