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He says while judging someone else...

I was just wondering if Markie played with a helmet, I mean it would explain a lot.

Price deserved his money. The holes in the club will continue to be holes in the club regardless what Price makes.

Dear Universe. Please manifest. John Tavares' refusal to sign long term with NYI franchise. Please manifest Bergevin trading Pacioretty Shaw Lindgren Davidson and a bunch of picks for him. Thank you Universe. I owe you.

Or maybe a moderator....

This is really childish.

I didn't get to watch the presser but reading the synopsis I have to say I'm more than a little worried. It sounds doubtful that Radu and probaly Markov will be back. MB says it is first come first serve he is only signing one. Made his final offers on Friday and has not had contact since. He expects Hudon to replace Radu We don't need anyone to play with Weber. Everything is fine with our defense... We are worse than last year and there is nothing coming to improve us. There is nothing in the minors to improve us. Fire MB now

Too much for ANY goaltender....overpaid by 1.5 mil per. I'd only spend 10+ on an all-star center.

Ages 36-38 are gonna suck

10.5 til he's 38.

That's is just a dumb post. Which AHL coach wouldn't take a NHL job if can find one? "Oh no thanks, I will stay in minor leagues just out of loyalty, I don't need a higher paying and profile job." But just gotta whine about something I suppose!

Class 101: how to not be Tyler Seguin and live in your own filth

Ultimately I don't care who the players are, as long as they represent overall improvement. So go ahead and let Radu and The General walk. But then Bergevin needs to find ways of replacing the lost talent and offence they represent, without weakening the team overall. Last year's team was not good enough. Next year's team needs to be better. Period. No more f***ing excuses from this management group. Weber is 32. Time's a wasting for this core. Deliver or piss off.

Jerabek has the European Assignment Clause, I don't think Laval is really in the cards for him. It's NHL or KHL most likely.

Great signing that will also help to keep Price motivated to stick around. Even the contract structure looks good...at the end of year three he's also a trade commodity if they need to go down that path. I love Markov but wouldn't want to see him making over $5m a year and max a 3 year deal given his age and injury history. If that's too little for him then go another route. Also, Radulov's term request is ridiculous, can't believe people are wanting him signed for 6 years. ?

More likely Molson told him, "I want a winning team in Laval."

This is the Twitter account where this came from: https://twitter.com/MikeKellyNHL

How many grunts do we need. Just watched despicable me with the kids and the all I could think of is the habs have a roster full of minions

Goulet & Fortier. There you go! Shut it cyberpresse. Dirtbags.

Spending $10m + picks on a young guy who has inflated points with McDavid is a gamble to say the least. But who am I to question the wisdom around here

McDavid is young centre and doing OK, but what does that have to do with Galchenyuk? A team that's finishes 8th overall, is just a bit unlikely to 'sell the core', that is simple foolish as you know Montreal fans would riot if missed playoffs for couple years in a row...on purpose. Turns out Galchneyuk is likely better off on the wing...for now at least and again I say that is fine by me.

Not much??? We have nothing!! The cupboards bear. When he started the job we had a pretty decent prospect pool, now it's empty.

I totally agree with that goal, without denying how hard it is. To pull it off would have required superior drafting and development. Instead this regime has delivered the exact opposite, relying entirely upon the core it inherited from the previous, far superior Gainey regime; and you're dead right that the likeliest outcome is a lost decade, once this core starts to decline. You make a good point about GMs in general. They do tend to lose the big picture as season after season unfolds and they get ensnared in the day-to-day battles. You look at some of MB's decisions - trading PK in a snit over his self-promotion and because of an irrational blaming of the 2016 disaster on 'leadership;' sticking with Therrien when it was obvious to everyone that he should go; standing by Lefebvre no matter what; relentless faith in players and impressions from his Chicago glory days; firing the advanced stats guy who defended PK - you see a guy who is NOT thinking coldly about the big picture, not demanding excellence no matter what, but rather allowing personal responses to cloud his judgement. This organization will be gutted by the time he is fired.

Actually it was trade Subban and say, non big deal that we are older, because we have Sergechev in the stable. than to add scoring, you trade sergechev. However you don't really add scoring, because you lose radulov. So Drouin actually is just a radulov replacement. than you lose markov, and your only chip of value is going to be galchenyuk. If that happens, how are we better off today than we were before we traded Subban. Defence is weaker. Offensive depth is weaker, but oh yeah, we signed 8 more depth players for the bottom line and Laval. MB must have modelled after the Harold Ballard approach to building a team.

All of the players he's picked up are the type you should be able to develop within your organization. We are taking about depth players. These are the guys that a blind man should be able to draft and develop. Mid he has to make that many moves to fill depth gaps after being here for five friggin year's, that is the biggest possible indictment that can be made against him. You can argue that after 5 years they had bad luck not getting a few more elite players (an argument I don't buy), but as Balki would say that's absolutely ridiculous that MB has to fill this many holes after 5 years on the job. If this was year one or even two, Ok, l but after 5 years, most guys not named Milbury or Gary Snow would be getting fired.

Obviously Bergevin thinks otherwise, but cant disagree playoffs would seem a bonus.

No gold star for Scherbak, or Hudon eh. delaRose, I assume fans like his 2 way game and effort? Lernout and Didier still progressing, but Juulsen & Bourque may fair better next season I would hope anyways. Sergachev will still be too young for AHL next season wont he?

5 games series, nice.

Lefebvre has quit or was asked to leave? Will Bergevin treat Laval any different than IceCaps/Bulldogs, no question...of course he will! And likely will add some quality AHL journeymen to ice a winning product for a change.

Three..Lefebvres' mom.

I assume one of Hudon, delaRose and McCarron could possibly on headed to Vegas?

Did keeping McCarron on Habs (while not playing him) play into his eligibility?

So is simply due to his age that he is exempt?

Why was Hudon 'passed' over by Habs, even though he produced when called up and since starting AHL, is it more likely an off ice/maturity, or all a defensive issue?

Not like Corey Locke, Nigel Dawes, Chris Terry, etc...I would have to assume.

Subban for Weber changed the NHL. It put the Stanley Cup final in Nashville for three games

yeah! another bottom feeder that the leafs didn't want!

Hainsey can move the puck...we wouldn't want that

So he finally woke up after 5 years on the job and realized that he should have veterans to teach the kids?????? Really?????

He also fell in the lineup in usage, almost to the point of being a #7 for Washington in the playoffs. His groin issues might not be fully healed.

Think about it. Montreal just signed a guy already broken for five years. We have to hope his groin heals and doesn't get re-injured, while also dealing with broken hands that will never truly heal.

I don't think those criticisms are serious, they're just ricochets off general frustration with zero news on the Radu/Markov/top-2 C fronts.

Why do we need a development camp for?? We don't develop players away.

https://www.nhl.com/canadiens/news/matt-taormina-and-byron-froese-still-share-the-same-dream/c-290269720

I laud him for that goal. You have to think big. Sounds like Trump saying "we will win so much, we will get tired of all the winning." But he lost sight of what he had and didn't make the final steps when the team was close. I remember the early deadline days when he sat on his thumbs to create a teachable moment. I also remember complaining about DD, Plekanec, and Eller at center. Those guys (at the time) are better than what we have now by a mile. I have this theory on GMs, that the further they get from their hire, the more they lose their vision and turn inward. When he signs players like Byron Froese that he scouted in Chicago, it makes it seem like he's stuck in the hey-day of the Western Conference. Then, the other theory I have, is when GMs take over a new team, they can spend up to two years fixing obvious mistakes. These moves go over with the fans, as they should, but in the long term, scouting/development/results become the yard stick. As Michel Therrien would say, MB vs a real deal GM like Peter Chiarelli, Ray Shero, or Stan Bowman is "mens against boys." My fear is that the Habs have become just another crappy Canadian team. It's easy to envision a poor man's Vancouver where we try to win with Weber and Carey Price when they're a billion years old.

Yeah, but Kane and toews got their contracts in large part on the basis of their cup wins.

I wouldn't be as concerned about the Price deal if we didn't have a gm who hands out both stupid term and $ for 3rd line character. If you have your bottom 6 making $7 or $8m and your bottom pair D making $2m we'd be okay, but that's not the case. The only really good contracts we have are Byron and maxpac.

McNivan, Lindgren and Fucale must view extension in a different light.

You know what? Who cares? Bergevin has never landed anybody really good in free agency and can't trade for what we need. Failed regime. If he saved money on Price's deal, Bergevin would blow it on third line grinders, second pairing dmen, and turds. Assuming that any solid NHL goalie costs 4-6 million at the cheapest.