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Around the League 2017-2018 Edition

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""I encourage you to check out Max Domi highlights on YouTube. His energy and enthusiasm are off the charts." - Bergevin

Lol Bergy doesn't pro Scott on YouTube does he?
 
Domi could turn out great for the Habs and it won't help much. Bergevin actually needs to make moves which addresses his team's weaknesses. What a terrible GM he is. And his comments make him sound like he has no idea what he is doing.
 
The Canadiens complete a master class in asset mismanagement by trading Alex Galchenyuk
By Arpon Basu

The​ actual​ trade,​ for​ now,​ is secondary. It’s important​ to​ realize that.

We don’t know​ what’s going to​ come​​ after this trade, we don’t know how Marc Bergevin is going to use the additional cap space he just acquired, we don’t know a lot.

One thing we do know is that the Canadiens had an asset in Alex Galchenyuk, a relatively valuable one, one who has scored 30 goals in a season, one who is 24 years old.

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The thing about that milestone is Galchenyuk did it playing centre. He did it in a season where the games were basically meaningless, yes, but for a reason that will never be entirely clear, the Canadiens refused to see Galchenyuk as a centre basically from that point onward. He played in the middle at the start of the 2016-17 season, was one of the top scorers in the league with 23 points in 25 games, and then hurt his knee in a collision with Anze Kopitar in Los Angeles.

And that was it.

Galchenyuk was no longer a centre, couldn’t play the position anymore, a position the Canadiens desperately needed someone to play.

A position they still desperately need someone to play.

The Canadiens had every incentive to work with Galchenyuk, to help him improve on his shortcomings defensively, to build up his confidence and let him know they believed in him and his ability to be an effective offensive player for them. It wouldn’t have been that hard. Focus on that 30-goal season and how well he started in 2016-17 and go from there.

Instead, the Canadiens did the opposite, focusing on those shortcomings, those defensive holes in his game that limited him, and did so in a very public way.

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That’s right, he didn’t play centre all year. But that was almost more baffling than the previous decisions to have Galchenyuk play on the wing. Paul Byron, at one point, played centre. Charles Hudon was given a shot. Not to mention Jonathan Drouin, a player who had many of the same faults in his game as Galchenyuk does, was handed the No. 1 centre job and given a chance to work through those problems. And you know what? As the season progressed, Drouin improved, he got better at those things because he was given that chance.

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So if you’re going to trade a player and the season is essentially lost and you have a glaring hole at centre in any case and you have a rash of injuries at that position, refusing to use Galchenyuk at that position all season was a mistake on many levels. At best, the Canadiens and Claude Julien might have seen some growth in him and a potential solution to an interminable problem. At the same time, and this is the important part, Galchenyuk could have shown the rest of the league he could play centre, and that it would cost any team interested in his services a considerable amount to get him.

At worst, Galchenyuk wouldn’t have performed well, the Canadiens could have said “I told you so” and we put that debate to bed for good.

But the risk of putting Galchenyuk back at centre, giving him an opportunity to boost his own trade value, was that the Canadiens would have had egg on their face. And they couldn’t have that. It’s hard not to believe that was what was behind that refusal to put him back at centre this season, in spite of all those reasons why they should have.

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In trading Galchenyuk to the Arizona Coyotes for Domi, a fine player, but one who is only a year younger and who has scored 36 goals in 222 career NHL games – or six more than Galchenyuk scored in 2015-16 alone – the Canadiens showed just how devalued their asset had become on the open market.

Now, the Coyotes are seemingly going to give Galchenyuk the opportunity he was never going to get here. Maybe the Canadiens were right, maybe the Coyotes and coach Rick Tocchet will come to the same conclusion the Canadiens did and he will wind up replacing Domi at left wing. But maybe not.

“He’s had success playing the centre position,” Coyotes GM John Chayka said. “It’s going to be the coach’s call always, of his lineup and the roster, but I don’t think we make this trade if we didn’t think he had the ability to play centre.”
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https://theathletic.com/395664/2018...set-mismanagement-by-trading-alex-galchenyuk/
 
Yup. They have mismanged him since day 1. If the Arizona freaking Coyotees use him properly and he excels, it will be mighty embarrassing for the Habs.
 
the idea that Galchenyuk wasn't given every opportunity is flabbergasting stupidity.

this kid was handed top-6 opportunity on a platter.
 
JackBurton said:
Domi could turn out great for the Habs and it won't help much. Bergevin actually needs to make moves which addresses his team's weaknesses. What a terrible GM he is. And his comments make him sound like he has no idea what he is doing.
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He’s flinging spaghetti at the wall hoping something sticks.

I loathed the day Molson reacquired the team. They destroyed it in the 90s and are now doing it again.
 
zeke said:
the idea that Galchenyuk wasn't given every opportunity is flabbergasting stupidity.

this kid was handed top-6 opportunity on a platter.
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I disagree completely. If you were to rank organizations by depth at C the Habs are 31st. It is shockingly stupid the guy has a career season at C by age 21 and then you stop using him there. If they were stacked at C, sure. But this is the Habs. Their Cs are an embarrassment. They horribly managed him. If the Coyotees simply use him better it could turn out horribly for the Habs due to trading him for a winger.
 
zeke said:
and if you can't play well on the wing, you're not going to play better at center.
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But statistics and facts show us he was better at C than on the wing (oh boy here we go). Career high in points and by far in goals primarily as a C.(At that point the narrative was by almost everyone the Habs found their #1 C).
What you are saying is true with a vast majority of players. Gal is one of the few exceptions. He's looked better at C.
Bottom line if the Leafs traded away a top 3 pick while using him like the Habs did we'd all be pissed.
 
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yeah yeah he had a whopping 56pt year on a line with a dominant 2 way winger with a 15% shooting percentage and 65% offensive zone starts, and his coach still needed to use desharnais to shelter him. two coaches were both too stupid to use him there even to save their jobs.
 
zeke said:
yeah yeah he had a whopping 56pt year on a line with a dominant 2 way winger with a 15% shooting percentage and 65% offensive zone starts, and his coach still needed to use desharnais to shelter him. two coaches were both too stupid to use him there even to save their jobs.
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Come on, you honestly think if the Leafs mismanaged a #3 overall pick like this and then traded him for a guy who scored 9 goals you would be happy? It's good for us since it's the Habs, but we would be very pissed as long as we aren't in love with said players last name like some Leaf fans are.
He scored 10 more goals as a C at age 21 than in any other season. The thought process at that time was, it's over. The Habs have their #1 C.
It's a gong show they have those Cs and somehow never used this guy right and traded him for a winger.
 
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