Who deserves the blame for the Habs slow start this season?

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1. So much so far this season has gone so badly wrong for the Habs, and things don’t look good for coming anywhere close to seeing playoff action to end that same season.

2. Dont feel bad the oilers are having the same problem, now whos to blame everyone needs to take accountability for their actions. The players on how their playing, the coaches, the owners. I know for the the Oilers its always been a goaltending and defence problem so fix it. The fans are getting sick of the players asking for all this money and playing like shit.

3. Don’t blame the coach or the players. The only teams in the playoff picture are the ones with a star. They also have solid goaltending. Our defence is poor.

4. Slow is the biggest understatement ever here.

5. St.Louis is the problem. His lack of experience has confused players . They trade away Kovacevic right shot big physical ,so now Hughes is looking for a right handed defenceman, check Kovacevic 's stats the last 2 seasons with Montreal.. He doesn't fit in with St.Louis style his hybrid fairy-tale,Roy is in Laval and God love him Evans is playing top 6 mins.Condetta gets the call??? Heineman pointless .Kapinen is off to the SHL..Explain all this disfunctionality…Hughes trades away a Goalie .A Stanley Cup winning goalie and they keep two inexperienced to take the reins in front of if not the youngest d- core in the league the N H L???😳. No disrespect to Evans I think he can cover 3rd line mins bottom 6 definitely..Also why is Anderson not placed on waivers ,along with Dvorak .give the ice to Roy, Kapinen, Barre-Boulet, give them a chance to show what they can do with an extended leash so to speak..Looks like the Gainey years ,The Savard (Andre), and the horrible Bergevin years ..history is repeating itself!!!!

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7. Pascal Vincent is in year one as the Rockets coach, and they're 8-1. MSL year three ?

8. You don't win with and all rookie team! No mix there! Lot of those players have no hockey sense! None of these players understand his system after 4 yrs comeon one system in laval and a different system in montrel whats that all about i've heard 3 4 players say that@@##$$ later

9. Fire all the management and rebuild THEM!

10. Trade Suzuki and retain half.

11. If the players don't "get it" and so far in the rebuild they have shown me they don't get it there is only person left to teach them >>>MSL otherwise what are they paying him to do talk to the press and wear a suit behind the bench?

12. TSN please fact check. This is not St.Louis 4th year as a coach. He was not there 3 years ago when they were in the finals. Jeez get your facts right

13. Dach and Newhook are a bust and Slafkovsky is regressing. First line is NHL caliber the rest of the offense is a joke.

14. Let’s be realistic here. Why would anyone think MTL was a playoff caliber team this season?

    A bunch of young guys learning the NHL ropes. Give them time.

15. habs will beat the leafs tommorw and then their going to a long 8-10 losing streak later 😂 at this point they should tank for micheal misa and mckenna two genoration players cause slaf suzuki and cauflied are all averege players at best..

16. this is 100% normal for a rebuilding team, they are the 2nd youngest team in the league..good lord these TSN guys 🙄

17. Hasn’t been 4 years for Marty Bruce do your homework hasn’t even been 3 year’s for him yet! Btw this year is year 3 so after this year is concluded it will be 3 years! Again do your homework before you speak!

18. So many mistakes by GM IMO.
    Dach, Barron, Newhook, and drafting all bad players Mesar, Reinbacher, etc.

19. It’s the coach

20. Are they suppose to be having a good start?

21. There's only so much you can do with draft picks and prospects, before management look to the coaches. If the players really like Martin, they better start cooking, or the coach will be replaced, and that would be just sad.

22. The coach. Is to blame. They been rebuilding since 94

23. You want Montreal to be relevant bring back Quebec it will make molson open up his purse

24. Theyre rebuilding

25. Gally playing his heart out and not being moved up get evans off 2nd line put dach back gally, dach newhook and slaf back on first line

26. this such a bad take , its only the 3rd year of the rebuild and only slav is this line up from our top picks. The defence is so young and still learning . management will get another high pick this year. Team will get better with better players in the lineup. Teams do not build cup contenders like 40 years ago , this is a cap era and Canadian teams are at a disadvantage and you have to build from draft picks. look at Toronto and Edmonton. Hab fans stay patient .