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  1. Ah, Berkshire. He's gonna milk this one for every second he can so we forget about his Diaz predictions.
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  2. Agree with the thoughts on Subban/Nashville surging while our Habs shit the bed: he helps the Preds, but its' not like Weber was the reason the Habs stunk in the post-season this year. Weber was solid. Pacioretty and Galchenyuk are 90% of the reason this team failed in the playoffs, so picking apart 'the trade' is like focusing the post-mortem on the brain when a guy clearly died of a heart attack.
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  3. I'd be careful with the last comment. I wasn't jumping for joy on the hockey side of the trade but I'm not a fan of reading consistent (and near-constant) complaining about the trade with comments that often boil down to "See, I knew I was right and I'm going to make people see it in 90% of my posts". I'm sure that's not necessarily intentional but to me, that's how quite a few posts over the last few pages read and regardless of my opinions on the trade, that gets annoying after a while. As for the discussion at hand, I probably should weigh in with a couple of thoughts. My own two cents is that Subban is getting way too much singular credit for Nashville's run. He's playing well, no doubt, but there are quite a few other factors in them being where they are now that aren't getting any attention. To name a few: - Ekholm's continued development into a high quality top four - Ellis' continued development into a high quality top four - Rinne playing like a good goalie (an improved defence deserves some credit but not all of it) - Arvidsson turning into a top liner practically overnight (he had eight goals last year, 31 this season) - Full season of Johansen which gave their offence another boost - Corey Crawford playing horribly in the first round Again, that's not to take away from anything Subban has done but there are a lot more factors at play for Nashville being where they are than just the trade from last June.
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  4. Of course there was. It was that time of the season where Montreal looks better than everyone in the world and we hope that means they'll be Cup contenders when the frost starts melting. It happened in 15-16 with Tomas Fleichmann as the big Habs pickup. Then Price and Gallagher get hurt. Instead of trying to salvage the season (Montreal still had the second best record in the east on January 1st, 2016), Bergevin just watched the team burn itself out. Then they kept all of the coaching staff except an advisor and decided the team needed to get rid of their top defenceman in exchange for a guy who had one of the worst individual game playoff performances ever against the SJ Sharks. Then in 16-17 with Alex Radulov added instead of Alex Semin, the team does the exact same thing! Best team in the league! So hot! Everyone excited! And then... the season starts going off the rails. With a healthy Carey Price. So to right the ship they fire Michel Therrien, one of the coaches protected from the 15-16 catastrophe, and at least finish at the best team in the dumpster fire Atlantic division. The only reason they won said division is because Ottawa crapped the bed in March and lost like three or four games against the Habs. They are now in the Conference final one game away from either elimination or the Stanley Cup final. Montreal meanwhile decided to nearly repeat 95-96 by taking a 2-1 lead in the series and then proceeding to be unable to score any goals while the captain got off with a "he's just snakebitten" excuse, Price gets blamed for not pitching a shutout, Radulov and Lehkonen look good at least, and Shea Weber once again starts strong and ends mild. Hope we don't hear the name of who he got traded for! But yeah, there were far less posts in October/November because October/November hockey only matters to Brian Savage and... uh, you?
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  5. ^^ Me reading this thread ^^ To summarize to those just joining in: Some people are of the belief that the Predators clearly won the trade because Subban is going to be playing for the Cup with his new team. Others like to point out that Nashville was already a superior team and that hockey is a team sport, not a one man show. Conclusion: Nashville is better than they were last year but so is Montreal. Both players fit into their teams very well and the results show that. I want to cheer for Subban and Nashville because I love watching him play and the fans there are great, however I also find myself cheering against them because I dread coming onto this Montreal Canadiens fan forum and reading some of the "I told ya so" comments. There were far less posts about this trade the first few months of the season when Weber was in the Norris/Hart trophy conversation while Subban couldn't find his ass from his head.
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  6. Absolutely which is why I give Weber so much props getting the points he gets all the while consistently taking on the toughest minutes. Subban and Weber are both amazing defenders but Subban is 4 years younger.
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  7. I really don't like when posters tell other posters what to write or where to write it. Instead of telling people not to write here cause you don't want to read their opinions... there are other simpler solutions... like you not reading their opinons. Thats a "molecule of respect".
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  8. I don't think its just the trade either. I think what the run is doing though, is blowing up the arguments that were made against subban though.... its showing that all the faults he supposedly had, which made it necessary for him to be traded, just aren't true. (defensive liability, locker room cancer, etc.... )
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  9. I've seen Gomez and McDonagh mentioned in posts in the last month or so. But sure, I guess too much time has passed on this trade that we can't discuss it anymore. Marc Bergevins defenders get upset when we talk about it.
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  10. This summation is excellent... tired of the malcontents spewing hatred for OUR club. Wanna brag and say how much you appreciate Poille's 20 years of a GM and Nashville's new top(cough) defenseman? https://www.hockeyforums.net/forum/34-nashville-predators-forum/ Join up and cya... I'm glad for PK's continued success, but I really don't want to hear the doom and gloom constantly surrounding our favorite club. Some of us here think the Habs had a good season, and weren't really that far away from going deeper, and Weber played well for us, good teams lose playoff rounds. Some of us are still hopeful for coming seasons, and would like a molecule of respect for being positive, instead of getting jumped on in every second post if we are positive about our club's future...
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  11. So when Houle and Corey traded Roy, we were supposed to just shut up and support the club? When Gauthier traded Cammalleri mid game against the Bruins, just shut up and be happy? Nah. My hockey fandom don't work that way. You want to still think the team has a future? You do you. I supported Bergevin quite a lot in the past. Maybe I eat crow next year but this year has gone almost exactly as I suspected. The only thing that surprised me was Therrien getting fired and Julien being worse at handling Galchenyuk. If this is the Habs I'm being given, I'll wait for the Habs I want. I spend most of my time in the out of town thread and will continue until Bergevin is the one out of town.
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  12. Haven't you heard it's the job of coaching staff to just win games, not develop players. If galchenyuk is not ready to be a centre and can't magically make the transition from wing to centre on his own, than he shouldn't be considered as a centre. Just like if he can't produce against weaker competition on the 4th line, he obviously is not good enough to be in the top 6. besides MB doesn't have any former buddies to give a job as a consultant to galchenyuk (all his buddies are grunts), even if they did want to help him develop.
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