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  1. It's still early in his development -- and cup-contending teams can be built in many different ways.
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  2. I think Hugo should prioritize drafting and trading for prospects who have names that are easy to spell. 😂
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  3. Harris can also play on the right side. And I doubt Edmundson is even here next year. As for the prospects, Guhle is the best LHD. Harris might be second, or he might be lower than that, but there are no guarantees with prospects so its not bad to have 4 LHD. If they all work out, one is traded, or moves to the right, or injuries mean we need more than 3. Lots of things can happen.
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  4. Exactly, the contract is more than fair for what he's brining right now. In fact its probably a small bargain today. It's very reasonable. At the same time he's so young and If he takes a step forward next year, then we have him for two years on a really cheap deal.
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  5. If we didn't want them to succeed then we wouldn't really be Habs fans.
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  6. Yeah, the rankings themselves were set a while back. It's just taking me forever to do my follow-up notes and then putting the write-ups together. Yes, he is one of the bigger drops compared to last season but you're not going to see him appear in the next couple of articles at least.
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  7. I would tend to rate Gainey and Bergevin as "adequate" (much as I loathe Bergevin). Maybe "average" is the word that really captures it. The other four were either garbage (Houle and Goat) or "Insufficient data" (Savard, HuGo).
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  8. THIS is the key ... whoever is placed first is still at best IMO a mediocre GM.
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  9. Houle: one of the worst GMs in NHL history, so absolutely last on this list. Threw away good and great pieces and dismantled the organization from top to bottom. Left devastation in his wake; when Andre Savard took over and was asked what his priority was, he replied “to get some NHL players.” That single phrase shows better than anything what a disaster Houle was. Goat: seemed to be a good hockey man, contributed greatly to the strong core pieces that MB inherited, but obviously did not understand how to manage people. Second worst. Savard: I liked him and thought he did some good things and was underrated. He began the process of righting the ship after Houle, but his body of work is too modest to say much. Gainey: his career was broken into two parts - Rebuild 1.0, done properly and patiently, but unsuccessfully; and Rebuild 2.0, done via free agent signings and leading to both the Semi-Final run of 2010 and the Gomez disaster. I feel Bob was rather unlucky as GM. Markov got hurt, key patch up acquisitions like Lang suffered career-compromising injuries, Gomez collapsed at age 31, and well-regarded picks like Higgins and Komisarek turned into pumpkins. At the end of the day, though, Rebuild 1.0 failed due to organizational incompetence at player development and a failure to build a winning culture. That’s on him. He also restored the Habs as a relevant, respected NHL organization. That’s also on him. Bergevin: I like your summary - an ace at the trade table, except for the execrable Drouin trade, and a complete disaster at drafting and development. Was more concerned with rewarding his personal mafia than with organizational excellence. He was gifted a strong hand with the four Ps (Price, PK, Patches, and Pleks) as well as Gally and Markov. Added the 5th P (Petry) but he basically frittered away the strong hand he inherited. His brilliant moves in the summer of 2020 created a team that was built for the playoffs and reached the Finals - an achievement that redeems him from the charge of total mediocrity. On the other hand, the Run of 21 was a one-and-done, the heroic last gasp of an aging core, and we only escaped complete and long-running cap hell because both Weber and Price suffered career-ending injuries. Very, very “lucky” in a perverse way. Cucumber’s provisional verdict: BEST Gainey CLOSE 2nd: Bergevin 3rd: Savard 4th: Goat 5Th: Houle, possibly the worst NHL GM of the past four decades other than Mad Mike Milbury. TOO SOON TO TELL: HUGO None of them have excelled. Serge Savard was miles above any of these; none of them are fit to hold his jockstrap, as GM.
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