Habsfan89

If we are able to sign Romanov, then I would resign Kovalchuk. Just so Romanov feels comfortable on the team with another Russian on the team.

17-5-3 that's what we need to do the rest of the year to make the playoffs.

I would like us to resign Kovalchuk. I thought it was a bad pick up at the time because I wanted a better draft pick. But i was wrong and it was a good pick up by Bergevin. We finally have a balance forward group , and if in the off season we add a top playmaking D we could have a really good team. But what I would do is fill his contract full on bonuses, give him something like 4.5mil plus 2mil in bonuses. 6.5mil I think he would stay. We can trade Byron to clear up even more cap space.

Look at that who would of thought talented players help win games.

Evans has been looking good. Will be a nice 4th/3rd line player.

If I am going to trade anyone its going to be lehkonen. Armia is better and the power forward we have been looking for. Lehkonen and Byron to me are expendable

Because kovy going to try and get as much points as he can, and lets his numbers speak for themselves. He's going to try and get as much money as he can.

No no no no I am not falling for this ( the red button is back isn't it👀)

When I judge Bergevin its based on the on ice product. The first 3 years I give him leeway on because that's still part of the old GM. But after 8 years I don't give him leeway on the NHL team, this is his team his plan, and what ever happens with this team is on him. As long as he continues to miss the playoffs he should be held accountable. I don't want to hear it's a reset because its been 3 years now and a reset should be over.

Remember it's not just about drafting, player development and drafting go hand n hand. Like I had said player development under Bergevin before the reset was garbage and we're feeling the effects of it now with no NHL ready players coming up from our farm system.

Picking from 20-32 we have had 0 players make any impact in the NHL. Picking from 10-20 we have had MCdonagh, Pacioretty, make impacts in the NHL with Poehling still a question mark. So the years we were a playoff team we Were picking from 22-32. We missed on all of them which we're feeling the affect of it now.

It was bad because he still believed that the old school way of hockey still worked. So he told Tim's to look for big gritty guys and that's who they were drafting. Not one of them panned out. When he started the reset he change and started drafting skill and speed based on today's NHL. Which is why our prospect pool has turned around. Plus a large part of that was also player development, which was very bad under Bergevin until he made changes to it last 2 years ago.

You forgot the it's in between their ears excuse he used.

Because Bergevin needs excuse for his year end press conference 🤓🤣😜

Looks like Weber out for awhile, man this D is going to be bad.

I don't see Bergevin making any big trades at the deadline. If his goal next year is the playoffs then he is not going to be a seller.

Hope we bring him back next year if plan is to make the playoffs. Would give him a 1 year 4mil deal with 2mil in bonus's in the deal that could make it 6mil If he gets all of them. I think that would be a fare contract for him.

They must of been trying for the tank lol

Maybe they didn't like me saying they can't put together any good hockey games 🤔

Well I didn't say all this time i just said people 😹

We can't put together a good month of hockey let alone a good week of hockey and people think we can still make the playoffs smh

Oh I agree poehling is going to go down to the AHL once Drouin gets

That's why I would put him with Domi try and get some offense out of him.

I would flip Poehling with Cousins have a 3rd line of lehkonen / Domi / Poehling.

The last 2 years has been good when it comes to drafting , in large part due to 2 things. 1) Bergevin changed from thinking big gritty players with no skill was still successful, too drafting speed and skilled players Ment for today's NHL. 2) they missed the playoffs and finished close to the bottom which Allowed them to draft better players. The problem is that we have no NHL ready prospects that are top 6 that can fill in for injuries right now because of his old way of thinking, and our development of players the last 7 years has been garbage. That's all on Bergevin. With the changes last year to our development department and the change in drafting hopefully in 4 years time we will have the talent to call up and fill in when we have injuries and see different results.