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Trades are hard. Drafting is hard. Developing is hard. Not everyone can win. This isn't a videogame you know. Not everyone gets a chance at the Cup. Be happy with regular season results. They will soon be putting division winner banners up in the rafters to celebrate this team.

What a waste it was. if we had better play making centres on our team that could set up our goal scorers, and we had more mobile d, we would of made the cup finals this year. Not saying we would of won the cup. But man our team is better then these teams. We are wasting prices good years.

Savard may have been active, but he went out and made bold moves for core players like Damphousse, bellows, Courtnell, bobby smith, turgeon. He didn't just trade for junk. In fact he traded junk like kordic for a front liner like courtnell. He had mistakes like trading chelios and Lemieux, but the only really big blockbuster trade that MB made in his 5 years was a mistake. He also had a steady stream of guys he drafted that came into the NHL lineup. Other than galchenyuk, who has MB drafted that is a regular? Saverd was ruthless with his coaches, he didn't keep his mediocre foxhole buddies around that can't develop players (MT and lefebve). i don't get the hate for galachenyuk. They play the guy as a winger for over three years and are surprised he can't play centre??? Idiots!!!! and sorry, yeas we could have predicted that his deadline pickups were useless (as was his signing of a washed up briere)- because most here said as as much. He brought in ostriches, and you are surprised that they didn't fly???

Heading into the season he had Galchenyuk as the #1, Plekanec/Danault as #2 and #3 and Mitchell as a solid #4. If Galchenyuk was able to stay on the same page as the coach and Plekanec didn't unexpectedly fall off a cliff offensively, we wouldn't be having this conversation. I don't see why it's so hard to see that. His hands were tied that late into the season unless he sold the farm to pick up a quality center like Duchene. Martin Hanzel was not going to save the day. Nobody expeced Galchenyuk to move away from center after his hot start to the season. Two coaches both concurred that he was better suited on the wing, we can't blame this on Therrien anymore. Plekanec is getting up there in age but nobody predicted the mess of a season he had. So I just wonder what everybody who criticizes him, what they wanted him to do. This team won the frigging division and was looking great for most of the season. Trade Sergachev? There'd be complaints about that. Tell us because up until the end of the season it wasn't much of a problem.

No one showed up, No one. Price was good, if you can't score, you can't win period. MB trade deadline players had the same amount of goals in the playoffs as the habs top LW and C. Tough to blame 4th liners for lack of scoring, not what they are paid to do.

Just like you realize it's up to the players themselves to perform on the ice, right? We have one and his name is Alex Galchenyuk. Unfortunately for him and for us he played his way out of the center position when we needed him the most. And I don't recall any centers as good as Kyle Turris being available at the trade deadline.

Quite the collaboration of Bergevin haters placing blame, a lot of GM's won't claim a cup this year as well, 29 of them who couldn't secure the pieces to win it all at the deadline. Bergevin did what he could in his opinion, for the long term, and I for one don't think Duschene or Vrbata et al, at a kings ransome would have got the Habs anywhere.... especially if it cost Sergachev or similar... We as laymen can second guess him all day, who here knows what it's really like to be in an NHL GM's shoes? Nobody. Hard to blame the coach, goalie, or players like the bottom 3 players on the roster, when the top 3 forwards couldn't muster a goal against the Rangers. Patch, Chucky and Pleks could shoulder some responsibility for the Habs lack of playoff success this season. Bergevin bet on his players to come through, and they didn't, it happens, we move on to next year... ask the Blackhawks fans. I believe if we had of beat the Rangers, we had a shot to go deep, but you can't when your leading scorers can't score...