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Something Special Is Brewing In Montreal…

  • September 3, 2024



Something Special Is Brewing In Montreal…

The Montreal Canadiens are one of the most intriguing teams in the NHL. They have young assets at every position, a rapidly evolving core, and a war chest of draft picks in the upcoming years. Rebuilds take time, but the Laine acquisition signals faith in the locker room. Is this the year the players reward that faith from management, and fans, by making a run at the playoffs?

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  5. I'm not the greatest Bergevin fan. And I agree that gambling is not a way to manage a hockey team.
    But to say he left the cupboard bare is disingenuous. He left with Suzuki, Caufield, Xhekaj and Mailloux in the cupboard. It's not bursting, but it's far from bare.

    Edit: oh, and if you are excited about Primeau (well, I'm not), he's also a Bergy gambling gift.

  8. The Habs continue to improve but there is a long way to go. Last year the Canucks showed what can be achieved in one season. Montreal opens the season in a similar position. It will be hard to make up the 15 points they missed the playoffs by for starters: they will also need to pass 7 other teams who are improving. Montreal will not be an easy game for any opponent, but young teams make mistakes. A good coach will help them learn from that and they will improve as a team. St. Louis has an important year of learning behind him now and hopefully will get the most out of the tools he has to work with.

  10. Bottom 5 back to back years and a complete fail since making the finals.
    The simple of it is that MTL has not won a cup in the Salary cap era for a reason >>>poor management poor contracts well and poor drafting doesn't help either.
    People as fanbois try their hardest to justify pretty much anything but the results happen on the ice and so far fail x2.
    What makes it really sad is that St.Louis showed us signs he was in try hard mode he was TRYING to produce a winning team to prove something to the fan and media but failed badly.
    After 36 games Slaf not yet full time first line or even doing much and the team was 1 game below .500 so the last half they got worse.They were 3 games ahead of Columbus and everyone considered CLB to have a failed year yet the yremained the same 3 games behind the Habs until the end.Eventually with enough first round picks and adding better talent they will make the manager and coach look good but in spite of so far it looks liek we are going nowhere.
    IMO a VERY good chance the Habs are bottom 5 again this year.

  14. Habs can finish top 3. Tampa lost Stamkos and aren’t elite anymore. Same with Boston. Leafs are due to disappoint. Maybe miss the playoffs. Matthews will get no more than 50 ish goals.

  16. Maybe it's just me, but I'm pretty sure Montembeault got the much tougher assignments, with Primeau playing the backup role and facing easier squads. This is why a lot of Habs fans think Sam will be the starter for the next couple years.

  18. Lol, you must be young. Just making the playoffs is not enough, and they barely have the team for that. Don't get too excited. It's not good for your heart.we need another 30 goals from one or two players. It's practically impossible to find a 30 goals scorers, so we need to trade 2 players who score around 10 each for 2 who score around 20 each and it would give 20. Let's see if the genius can make this happen.

  19. Marc bergevin was anything but high risk high reward and the futur was far from bleak when he left. He literally never used any of his pick to reach the cup and left the team with amazing prospect pool. Including Romanov, Caufield, Ghule. Xhakaj just to name those. Yes he signed bad contract and he didnt do good but saying hes a high risk high reward who left the team with no futur is absolutely false.

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