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Did molson offer free beer to every team to not draft Wright 🤔

NJD goes D ... Habs netter be on the phones to Arizona, Seattle, Philly to see if something can be worked out ... still a shot at Cooley and Wright

Will look good playing with Bedard 😹

Good for him for speaking French. His French is terrible, but at least he is a man about it, which is more than we can say for some Habs over the years. LOVED seeing Koivu!!

Thought Guy's son and Mike's daughter both did a very good job.

I think calling the habs a bubble team right now is disrespectful to bubble teams. We are a bad team. we were a bubble team in previous years and it wasn’t always due to injuries. It was because we had a lack of talent and zero depth. The rangers didn’t fild when Lundquist went down in 2014-2015. Talbot came in and got them into the playoffs. The team had enough depth. When price went down the following year in 2915-2016 the habs folded like a cheap tent. MB didn’t try to get an NHL level goalie. When the pens lost Crosby, Malkin, Letang, stall, or when Fleury wasn’t perfuming over the years, there was a bough talent and other guys stepped up. Hell, the pens win their first cup with Crosby knocked out of the finals. No way do we have close to that kind of talented depth. For most of the Bergevin years we were a bubble team. In between being mainly a bubble team, we had a few yo-yo seasons of being bad/horrible, to decent/good. But under most of MB’s tenure we were a bubble team that did not have enough talent to ever expected to contend - let alone be a perennial contender. Ditto with the Gainey years. The Houle years were even worse. We have been the definition of a bubble team for almost 30 years now. We had some decent to good seasons sprinkled in with some horrid seasons. But for the most part we have been a bubble team. That’s not disrespectful, that is just the way it is. You maybe okay with continuing with that path of scrapping into the playoffs and then feeling anything can happen, im not. Im sick of it. For the first time since the early 90’s I actually have some optimism that we have a management team can start acquiring and developing a talented team. That may require another year of losing then wasting cap space on more garbage players like Hoffman, Savard, or giving up a 1st and 2nd pick for a mediocre third line centre. I’m okay with that. I’m done with the idiotic crap player drafting and development approach, where winning depends solely on having a Price, Halak, or Theadore be the primary reason for our success. it’s been a long time since the habs had a steady stream of talented players come into the lineup even after winning a cups (Lafleur, Robinson, Shutt), all joined cup winning teams, and were major pieces to the 70’s dynasties. In the. 80’s we had Chelios, Roy, Lemieux, Richer, Schneider, all drafted and developed. With the just scrape in and anything can happen approach, Bergevin had 3 top 10 picks (two top 3), and we don’t have a single one of those players on our team today. That is the sign of a badly managed team. I’m hoping tomorrow we start back on the path of good drafting and development. But we need at least another year of trying to accumulate ELITE level talent, and I’m optimistic we have a management team that can get it done. This summer and the next two years is going to be the biggest test to see if we have a management team that can build a sustainable contending team, and get us out of being a perennial bubble team.

Then you keep him. He's not a negative-value player to just give away for cap space. He's still a top-four defenceman and when he's on, he's worth his contract. There will be another window to move him at the trade deadline if it gets that far. There could be a window to move him a few days into free agency whenever the dust settles on the UFA d-men as well.

but I love watching Pezzetta do his thing