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I gave up on that a while ago. He's too inconsistent to really be relied upon long-term. He's a 4/5 on average but even if he plays in a #4 role, I don't think he'll have the impact many were expecting (or hoping for) just a couple of years ago.

I'll take it all back if Montreal wins the Cup on, "We are the most annoying team in the playoffs you'll just give up so you don't have to hear is chirp" but until that happens I think this strategy is weak. Talk is cheap when you can't score goals.

I'm not going there again, but nothing has changed my view that the trade has done nothing to make us better in any discernable way, while weakening us in others. It was done to please Therrien. Nuff said.

If that's his worst trade, he's done a pretty good job when you think about it. The Subban trade is the most controversial since (probably) Cammalleri for Bourque and that trade was done right at the end of Gauthier's temporary reign. I still think the former was a much worse trade but it's still too early to fully judge the more recent one.

Yeah, even I'm not that moronic. *ducks to escape the brick thrown by DON*

I don't have an issue with Galchenyuk separated from Pacioretty or Radulov. He doesn't have to be on a stacked top line. This team kept Koivu and Kovalev separate. Pacioretty recently mentioned that when the three play together there's issues because they all want to have the puck. Reminds me of why Kessel didn't work well with Crosby or Malkin but on his own third line he's fantastic. The problem is that the team doesn't have someone to really play there if Chuck isn't there. Danault really isn't suited for it. Plekanec used to be. Desharnais hasn't been for years and now he's gone. This has nothing to do with Galchenyuk to be honest. It's okay to have a one way offensive centre who wants the puck. It just seems like an issue when the best two wingers also always want the puck. In that situation you need a 1A/1B situation: Galchenyuk with two wingers who help feed him the puck Pass first centre with Patches/Radu Or Galchenyuk with Patches or Radulov Patches or Radulov with another winger and a pass first centre Or (if this team was great) LW/Chuck/RW Pacioretty/C/RW LW/C/Radulov People saying he should go back to the wing, you are just overreacting to the clear situation. Again, the Penguins brought in Kessel and he didn't work with either of their best centres. They didn't trade him. They didn't move him to the left wing. They put him on the third line with a centre that worked for him and won a Cup with three dangerous lines.

If I were the owner of the Montreal Canadiens I would: 1. Set up the Les Canadiens high performance training centre for coaches which would be open to promising young coaches from minor hockey on up with French language lessons for non-francophones 2. Authorize Bergevin to identify the top ten future candidates as coach of the Canadiens and offer them a retainer for right of first refusal at the AHL and NHL level 3. Spare no expense to entice coveted college free agents to sign with Montreal 4. Insist on a coaching change in the AHL (my one and only interference in hockey operations) and insist that the ECHL and AHL become a feeder league for coaches as well as players 5. Hold an annual contest in which fans could write in with their best suggestions for improving the Habs with the winner getting an all expenses paid trip to Montreal to meet the team and watch a game.

I'm assuming he was arguing without doing any gestures, or stick slamming, or something like that. I've never heard a commentator feel the need to comment on one's posture while complaining to the referee about a call.

(Ellis 33, Josi 32, Subban 51 in fewer games, so that ex-hab still is gaff prone, but as a 2nd pairing d he likely dosent carry puck as much anymore)

You forgot to include another irrelevant #76 reference in this post? Your slipping. I guess you and Julien have different opinion on #27 playing wing. http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/video/galchenyuk-prepared-for-move-to-wing~1083709

I am sure Julien knows what's best and if he can be more effective on the wing than so be it and I maybe wrong thinking he could make it at centre. Also maybe Shaw steps in as our new centre?

I just don't get why playing wing is seen as a demotion or something? Pacioretty and Radulov don't play centre and everyone is good with that. Why do we have to force a square peg in a round hole?

its not a demotion...its a promotion...keeping him at C is a demotion. why? because he's currently a #3 C behind Danault and Plex. As a winger, he's top 6 forward

well... i don't know if MB's rebuild attempt is a failure (i will let history be the judge)...but his inability to land a #1 C, is arguably, an on-going issue for MB. I agree with you that Danault is not the answer BUT, as of right now, he is a better option than #27. Hell i would go as far as experimenting with Shaw - and/or "fill in the blank" at C - than have Chucky there...rather, let Chuck loose to score with his wonderful one-timer from the top of the circle... btw, I thought MT was an idiot..but even he saw that Chuck wasn't a C. CJ is no idiot...i trust this coach, and he is calling it as "he sees it on the ice" (his words) rather than some pretend scenario where #27 will suddenly become a C before the playoffs, much less a #1 C... Reality Bites (a great movie btw)...