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2016 NHL Entry Draft

IMO Nill would've been given the GM gig if he'd have come out of the process on top....but its obvious he had no interest in being GM in Mtl.
 
Sal_Butera said:
This is what happens when u allow a high school dropout alchi to have any say in hiring.
The alchi clearly proved he was an incompetent GM, once the position required actual intelligence because owners started to take their teams success more seriously and players had more power & say in their movement.
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Um Serge was fired 1.5 seasons after winning a cup, hardly enough time to prove himself incompetent for the reasons you set out.
 
TheCountofMonteCristo said:
Um Serge was fired 1.5 seasons after winning a cup, hardly enough time to prove himself incompetent for the reasons you set out.
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The Sal hate on Serge confounds me. He's actually the last GM we had who was willing to make bold moves and see a fair share of them pan out.
 
CH1 said:
The Sal hate on Serge confounds me. He's actually the last GM we had who was willing to make bold moves and see a fair share of them pan out.
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Bold move would've been to draft Euro invasion....missed big time. Genesis of the empires decline is attributable to the drunkard..
 
Serge made the boldest draft move move in Habs history.

The Montreal Canadiens pulled off one of the biggest surprises in draft history when they announced their 5th overall selection in 1984 would be Petr Svoboda.

Svoboda was the top ranked European player, and he could have be ranked as high as number two overall behind only Mario Lemieux. But living behind the Iron Curtain in Czechoslovakia made him an unlikely high pick, since it would likely be years before he would be allowed to play in the National Hockey League. Therefore it was expected Svoboda would be a middle round pick.

Expected to announce Shayne Corson as his pick, Montreal Canadiens general manager Serge Savard turned the draft on its head when he selected Svoboda. He shocked the league even more when the prized prodigy walked on stage in person to accept the Montreal Canadiens jersey.

The savvy Savard left all other GMs jaw-dropped. Savard was the only general manager to know that Svoboda had defected from his communist country, leaving the Czechoslovakian national team at the 1984 European championships in West Germany. As Svoboda hid in his aunt's house in Munich, the Habs arranged to have him flown to Montreal in time for the draft. Svoboda, who hid in a Montreal hotel until draft time, had defected on his own merit, but had already negotiated a 5 year, $750,000 contract with the Habs, who promised to take him number 5 overall.
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http://habslegends.blogspot.ca/2007/03/petr-svoboda.html
 
The boozy Chelios was like Savard's son. Most people think Savard was forced to trade him.

Chelios was developing a reputation of something of a boulevardier. As long as he was doing what he was doing on-ice, general manager Serge Savard was not about to lose any sleep over his night time rambling. Not so for the team’s president Ronald Corey who had just enough hockey knowledge to be dangerous, and Molson Breweries who owned the team and were only concerned with corporate image. They made up the perfect storm of hockey incompetence. A Norris Trophy winner was traded because the suits were more worried about beer sales than winning hockey games.

Chelios-2They ordered Serge Savard to unload Chelios, sooner rather than later and on June 29, 1990 they had their way. Savard, who for the most part was a very intelligent horsetrader, engineered a perfectly awful deal. He traded Chelios to the Chicago Blackhawks in return for fading centre Denis Savard. Knowing that Savard was not dealing from strength, the Hawks also demanded a second round draft pick to complete the deal
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http://thereuschblog.com/?p=26156
 
Nordiques had to trade Lindros as well, yet managed to create a bidding war for a kings ransom - poor identification of talent by the drunkard.
Ronald Corey though needs to be hung by his testicles at centre ice.
 
Sal_Butera said:
Nordiques had to trade Lindros as well, yet managed to create a bidding war for a kings ransom - poor identification of talent by the drunkard.
Ronald Corey though needs to be hung by his testicles at centre ice.
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If you were the GM and were the guy who would have to take the heat for trading Chelios, would you appreciate being forced to do it by a boss who knew nothing compared to you, especially when you knew that the reasons behind the order had nothing whatsoever to do with on-ice performance? I suspect that once Savard had his authority usurped by Corey his level of "give a damn" probably plummeted. And because Corey and Molsons were in such a hurry to get rid of Chelios Savard didn't have much time to create a bidding war even if he had wanted to bother putting in that much effort. I don't blame Serge for coasting and just trading him for a French Canadian player who would be the darling of that segment of the local media.
 
Sal_Butera said:
Bold move would've been to draft Euro invasion....missed big time. Genesis of the empires decline is attributable to the drunkard..
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Maybe because we did it first and it didn't pan out. Still the franchise was still in a pretty good shape when he was fired. We had a core of Turgeon, Recchi, Damphousse and Koivu up front with Roy in net. Our defense was serviceable if not spectacular. We had a good development system even though our first round picks were generally bad (partially because we were drafting so late every year).
 
What excuse does drunkard have for a string of draft failures, which then had a dominos effect - unable to draft/develop offensive talent meant making a desperation trade for Recchi yada yada yada. Alchi was too busy looking after his stable of race horses vs doing his job.....he even admitted to such a few yrs back. Corey no doubt gets the blame for the lack of Cup competitiveness over the past 23-yrs, drunkard is right up there. Funniest story i read, in 1995 Habs wanted to draft Shane Doan...a guy got into the elevator w the drunk and Carol Vadnais (scouting Dir), the morons told the guy they're drafting him. They thought it was Doan....it was Terry Ryan who they ended up drafting anyway since Jets took Doan with the prior pick. Didt even bother interviewing draftees, which was common practice. Incompetence at its worst!
 
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