Ya but to get a top 6 you have to give a top 6. And I don't believe in signing UFAs...
- MB
Yup and thats our lack of depth flaw . Add that to the challenges we have getting players makes it even worse to fix the team
Ya but to get a top 6 you have to give a top 6. And I don't believe in signing UFAs...
- MB
we were never cheap , just not paying the most qualified to come onboard
We need someone to make the Habs great again.
There is an argument that dudley is very qualified... as is timmins, churla, rockstrom, etc... all have good resumes and all are paid very well.we were never cheap , just not paying the most qualified to come onboard
Um Serge was fired 1.5 seasons after winning a cup, hardly enough time to prove himself incompetent for the reasons you set out.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.
Um Serge was fired 1.5 seasons after winning a cup, hardly enough time to prove himself incompetent for the reasons you set out.
We need someone to make the Habs great again.
Exactly.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.
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.
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.
And yet, Serge made the boldest draft move move in Habs history.
http://habslegends.blogspot.ca/2007/03/petr-svoboda.html
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
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.
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).Bold move would've been to draft Euro invasion....missed big time. Genesis of the empires decline is attributable to the drunkard..
Just think of the Bobby Smith, Damphousse, Courtnall and Bellows trades.It's hard to overlook Chelios for Savard.