• Moderators, please send me a PM if you are unable to access mod permissions. Thanks, Habsy.

Habs News & Notes: 2019 Offseason

Re: Post-Season Thread

GrandWazoo said:
Also curious about how his replacement would do any better.

Still have a hard time as well with that Shaw trade, those picks could have been useful to replenish the farm system.
Click to expand...

2nd round picks are thrown away too liberally....obvious lotto tickets but the more you have, the greater the odds of finding a guy like Subban, Marchand, Bergeron, Lucic, Dubinsky, etc
 
Re: Post-Season Thread

CH1 said:
still need 2 additions...Davidson/SFB and Emelin need replacing
Click to expand...

Good point....


So let's review this:

We need 2 centers
We need 3-4 new dmen
We need better depth
We need prospects

That smells like a rebuild, no ?
 
Re: Post-Season Thread

CH1 said:
still need 2 additions...Davidson/SFB and Emelin need replacing
Click to expand...

Sergachev is one.

The other, I'm pretty sure we can find a third pair defenceman somewhere.

The concern has to be up front. specifically at centre.
 
Re: Post-Season Thread

BKerr said:
Sergachev is one.

The other, I'm pretty sure we can find a third pair defenceman somewhere.

The concern has to be up front. specifically at centre.
Click to expand...

sure...but we said that summer, and the one before that, and......

meanwhile Chuckie is still a prospect when it comes to playing a 200 ft game
 
Re: Post-Season Thread

Rolex said:
Because his replacement will have a clean slate to tank and rebuild....just like Babcock/Lou sold it in TO
Click to expand...

Babcock/Lou/Shanahan had no other options really. That was a bad team with no future. This team still has the illusion that they could be 2 players away although I bet this series was a rude awakening.
For once there is truly no excuses. We were healthy, and favorites, with a new coach, and failed miserably. Can't blame it on character again either. There was a clear lack of talent and strategy.
 
Re: Post-Season Thread

BKerr said:
Sergachev is one.

The other, I'm pretty sure we can find a third pair defenceman somewhere.

The concern has to be up front. specifically at centre.
Click to expand...

If Galchenyuk can't do it, then he should be packaged to get one. That would be the one scenario where I'd move him. Otherwise, I agree with you. Plunk him down at C and leave there, FFS.
 
Re: Post-Season Thread

GrandWazoo said:
Babcock/Lou/Shanahan had no other options really. That was a bad team with no future. This team still has the illusion that they could be 2 players away although I bet this series was a rude awakening.
For once there is truly no excuses. We were healthy, and favorites, with a new coach, and failed miserably. Can't blame it on character again either. There was a clear lack of talent and strategy.
Click to expand...

Illusion....the key word
 
Re: Post-Season Thread

GrandWazoo said:
Babcock/Lou/Shanahan had no other options really. That was a bad team with no future. This team still has the illusion that they could be 2 players away although I bet this series was a rude awakening.
For once there is truly no excuses. We were healthy, and favorites, with a new coach, and failed miserably. Can't blame it on character again either. There was a clear lack of talent and strategy.
Click to expand...

it's hard when those 2 players have to be as good as the best you already have
 
Re: Post-Season Thread

Let's cut the crap. Price is going nowhere. I do believe they have to show him significant change to retain him though.
 
Re: Post-Season Thread

GrandWazoo said:
Babcock/Lou/Shanahan had no other options really. That was a bad team with no future. This team still has the illusion that they could be 2 players away although I bet this series was a rude awakening.
For once there is truly no excuses. We were healthy, and favorites, with a new coach, and failed miserably. Can't blame it on character again either. There was a clear lack of talent and strategy.
Click to expand...

exactly...they were lucky because the team had not made the playoffs in years...couldn't even pretend they were a lucky bounce away from winning
 
Re: Post-Season Thread

Habsy said:
Let's cut the crap. Price is going nowhere. I do believe they have to show him significant change to retain him though.
Click to expand...

Do we really want to pay our goalie 9 mil going into a semi-rebuild.
 
Re: Post-Season Thread

CH1 said:
sure...but we said that summer, and the one before that, and......
Click to expand...

and our management focused on adding leaderbeans and fourth liners.

Bergevin believed the team had no leadership and character, so his big offseason move was trading one elite defenceman for another elite defenceman cause the new one had leaderbeans and character. (Not even getting into which one is better cause we've argued that to death and people know how I feel). that said, its undeniable that the move was more or less a lateral type.

Then he added Radulov, and that paid off. I shudder to think where the team would be without him. But still it wasn't enough skill.

Then his trade deadline was adding fourth liners with grit and leadership.

I'm tired of character, and leadership and grit and all the other narratives. Get some ****ing skill.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top