Leaderboard

Sure that wasn't just a postmortem spasm....?

If you think the problem is the players, the problem is who acquired the players: management. If you think the problem is the media, the problem is the people who care what they say: management. If you think the problem is drafting, the problem is the people who draft: management. If you think the problem is developing, the problem is who runs the development: management. If you think the problem is coaching, the problem is who hired the coaching staff: management. The only thing that isn't the problem of management is the person who allows management to run the way they run: ownership.

I think our development can be better. I also think that we can be better in trades and free agency as well. Yes, being adequate isn't good enough... you have to be elite somewhere. MB hasn't done enough with this roster to take it to the next level.

Ok, ok, try this. The Montreal Canadiens are a massive money-making machine irrespective of performance. As we've seen with franchises like TO and NYR, this can create a culture in which, while everyone involved would like to win, winning isn't internalized as life or death. This results in people in management playing internal political games, jockeying for influence, protecting their allies from accountability, making hockey decisions based on ego rather than excellence, etc, etc.. Over time this corrodes the entire operation. That we have seen zero accountability in management - Therrien being protected long past the point when a serious organization would have canned him, Lefebvre remaining firmly in place despite a dismal track record - and dumb hockey moves driven seemingly by ego (Subban, Markov) - all suggest that this dynamic is a major factor in explaining the Habs' stagnation.

It's really quite simple. When Price is close to or at his peak, this is a solid playoff team good for one or two rounds before getting eliminated. When Price is merely average, or when someone other than Price is in net over a number of games - even if he plays well - they are a bottom-tier team that can't fight its way out of tissue paper. It's Price + nothing.

Been a busy day at the restaurant, was going to ask how the game was but then saw the score. Did the guys forget we had a game?

I am glad I missed this one. Right now, I'm like: let's trade Price, let's beg Markov to come back, let's conjure the forum phantoms, let's... let's

There are studies that show a series of microdoses of magic mushrooms can cure depression. If this season continues to be dismal, I might be tempted...

Let's see if we can at least hold them to one goal on this power play!

3 goals in 5 periods against 2 AHL goalies. This team is a mess

Bless her hart... .

HAHAHAHAHA

So Price ####ed up a board battle and it led to a goal. Will he get the Galchenyuk treatment?

Didnt have a 1st rounder in 2008 Didnt have a 2nd rounder in 2009, 2010, 2011 seems to coincide with the years where I've identified that we only got one player with 100 games out of 4 drafts. Trading picks away hurt in that span (there were also 3rd and 4th rounders we moved in those years).

No.

The media since the Nordiques left. The French language is slowly killing everything in this corrupt Province. The Habs are not exempt. Salut, bye.

Seriously, do we need this kind of useless comment around here!??

How about you go #### yourself.