“There was no argument,” Gomez added. “It was a coach yelling at the player for messing up a drill.”
“We’re all grown men,” said Hal Gill. “We get heated and yell at each other. That’s part of the game, part of a team.”
“I played for an emotional coach, John Tortorella, and this happened often,” Mathieu Darche said. The difference, he added, was that practices in Tampa were covered by two journalists, not the battalion that descends on Brossard.
“It was more about competing and doing the drill the way it was intended to be done,” said Randy Cunneyworth, who restricted Gomez to less than eight minutes of ice time against Carolina Monday night and would not confirm that the Canadiens’ highest-paid player would be in the lineup against Boston.
“We’re looking for the lineup that will play the right way,” Cunneyworth said.
The coach also benched Andrei Kostitsyn for what Cunneyworth described as “three shifts, three turnovers that were painfully obvious.”
“Our job,” Tomas Plekanec said, “is to play hockey and not worry about who is playing and who is not.”
Lines at practice: Cole-Desharnais-Pacioretty | Darche-Plekanec-Bourque | Leblanc-Eller-Palushaj | Kostitsyn-Gomez-White
Yannick Weber was back at practice, but in a no-contact jersey
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Palushaj shouldn’t be playing after the last game. I’d rather see AK on the 3rd line with Eller and LL. Randy’s trying to make a point at a time when we just need to win. Put your ego assied. AK can get the job done. Palushaj can’t.
Only in Montreal is a molehill made into a mountain
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Jack Edwards is a clam, Bruins are pukes.
Only in Montreal does a molehill skate around as if it were a mountain of a top 6 forward, or only in Montreal does a molehill be called a top 6 forward by the owner…..
Here’s how I see Ladouceur in this situation. He is us. And thank god someone like is finally telling Gomez what’s going on. In an interview recently he was saying how everyone is so supportive as if he should be pitied and loved. Such bullcrap. He needs a slap in the face – or a hundred slaps in the face. He’s practically delusional. So thanks Randy.
I love this quote. So Plekanec. And so true:
“Our job,” Tomas Plekanec said, “is to play hockey and not worry about who is playing and who is not.”
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Im not defending Gomez or Kostitsyn, but being put in a winning situation and to have confidence and to have a good relation with the coach, chemistry with linemates counts for a lot. Not saying Gomez and AK havent been used properly; just saying at the beginning of the year here at HIO, most wouldnt have traded Gomez for Spezza (and yes I remember it being discussed).
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Cat, you’re being too nice. I like AK, partly because he spends half his time in the doghouse but still scores 20 or more goals every year. Gomez on the other hand has typically been given top line assignments (until very recently) and scores… 1 goal a year. Look at Pleks – he’s had a rotation of line-mates, and not a very favorable one – but he still scores, he still plays hard every game. Sure Gomez could have a more stable situation etc. but compared to any other players he’s done less to show he’s ready to bring it, and more to show he’s either incapable or uncoachable. Either way there’s no comparison on the team for how little he’s done.
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You would think an underperforming corporate asset like this would be disposed of in a regular private enterprise. It is almost as if the Habs have become a bureacracy of hockey. Where quiet incompetents get promoted and overpaid, and who never show up for work….
Very insightful. Maybe Gomez is secretly a Quebecois bureaucrat? Long, expensive lunches, too many Galoises “Bruns”, hate-on for the anglos who keep him down on the cotton farm… actually the analogy falls apart because Gomez is too rich. In fact maybe he is more like Trudeau, rich and destructive.
Bring the hate
Smartdog, I think you might be on to something. Hard to know for sure since no one on the outside really knows whats going on inside the “room” but I’ve often thought that its much to comfortable for the veterans especially under the Count. Perhaps RC and his staff finally are going to maintain an equitable distribution of accountability. It sure as heck looked to me that Gomez has shown a consistant lack of effort on most nights during his tenure here. On the handful of games where effort from him was extended, he always quick to avoid contact and rarley battles for puck possession.
I think the organization has compounded the original mistake of the trade by first giving him top 6 minutes and then having him on this team at all.
Exactly… Gomez needs to stop being a lil bi0tch and cut this ‘great-guy’ act, and deliver SOMETHING. At $7mil he should be an indispensable cog for the team machine…..instead he’s just popping in goals at a yearly rate now. Glad RL called him on his BS
This year the top goal scorers from the 2007 draft year are Max Pacioretty and Logan Couture.
The top defenceman from that draft year is Ryan McDonagh.
So with three picks, Trevor Timmins managed to get Pacioretty, McDonagh and PK Subban.
Promote Timmins. Fire Gainey.
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Nice post! I’m tired of reading about all the players we could have gotten instead of AK46. Nice to see some positives regarding some home grown talent.
Hopefully LL, Tinordi, Gallagher, Beaulieu all pan out as well.
I still get a pit in my stomach every time someone mentions how well McDonagh is developing.
In Price we Trust
Nice post. Visualize this team sans Gomez, with McDonaugh, PK and Max as you postulate — and a $5M center acquired with the money we saved on not getting Gomez.
Hurts, doesn’t it?
Thanks Bob!
I could see GILL and either MOEN or AK being traded to Philly for VAN RIEMSDYK. The money we are paying our players would almost be a wash for what Van Riemsdyk is being paid, and VanR would give us some needed size on the wing. He’s not lighting up the lamp like some others out there, but could see him working well with some of the other young blood we have (VanR is only 22).
ONCE A HAB, FOREVER A HAB!!!
Reverse the trade. Let’s say Philly had Gill and Moen.
Would you trade Max Pac for Gill and Moen (who are both UFAs)? Or Max Pac for Gill and AK46?
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Philly is in more need for a solid D to make a run for the cup, so there is more value in Gill for them. D men are at a premium right now so we can play that to our advantage.
Oh, and Kostitsyn has more points than VanR this season too…
ONCE A HAB, FOREVER A HAB!!!
I tend to agree with you, it would be an alright trade for both teams, habs might have to throw a late pick in there too.
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I don’t think Philly is going to give up JVR just yet, as much as I’d love to see that deal come to fruition. If the Habs aren’t going to re-sign AK46 at end of year, deal him to a contender for a solid prospect.
Agreed, we need some picks out of our UFA.
ONCE A HAB, FOREVER A HAB!!!
I wish.
MUST WIN TONITE habs win 3-2 gomez with a goal after being called out
I support Scott Gomez
Habs win 5-2 and Desharnais beats the living piss out of Lucic
ONCE A HAB, FOREVER A HAB!!!
… in Narnia
Vancouver Giants won 5-4 in a shootout over Tri-City Americans a team ahead of them in the standings. Brendan had 3 goals, another in the shootout and was first star. Patrick Holland had 2 assists and +1 for Tri-City. Brendan now 34 goals in 40 games.
Its fitting Detroit gets to have the record. Its not cited too much as the reason of their success but Detroit’s secret is that they develop their players well in the AHL. Most of their players toil there for at least 2 years before going up to the big club.
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They have players! Ten years at Hamilton will not make you NHL.
How bout Gorges ,Webber,AK and Gomez for Rick Nash?
Loosing two points last night doubly annoys me after Winnipeg, and Toronto lose there games.
Whatever.
Hopefully they get 2 points against those knuckleheads tonight. Atleast 8, 9, & 10th are still available.
Sholi its great to see posts like yours after wading through a sea of sardonic posts which are as negative as they are irrational. This team is not out yet, it’s not a bad team, and losing on purpose is not the answer rather it is affirming a notion that the team is no good at all – which is completely untrue. This team just needs a few tweaks, some stability in coaching and management, and most of all – confidence. If they get on a roll they will surprise many.
Agree 100%. This team is a work in progress that should be doing better than what its record indicates. Things have gone extremely poorly this season. I’m fairly confident it will not be a year-in year-out trend… unlike for a certain southern Ontario team.
This team does not have to lose on purpose, they are quite excellent at losing on their own as the season has proven. They are surrounded by good teams in the standings who are not mailing in games this time of year. The Islanders are making a run now! How far will they get? We get to see some great games until the end of the season.keep the illusion alive. Will habs close out t
The poll needs another entry, “see how it pans out”.
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I like that option.
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I BELIEVE AGAIN I BELIEVE
I support Scott Gomez
In connection with an earlier thread tonight, here’s more Fun with Anagrams…
Chris Campoli = Coach Lips Rim
Raphael Diaz = A Hazard Pile
Thomas Kaberle = Bleak Master Ho (which I believe is his rap name)
Max Pacioretty = Atomic Party Ex or Coma Party Exit or Parity Ax Comet
Tomas Plekanec = Pancake Motels or A Camp Skeleton
Randall Ladouceur = Carnal Dual Louder
Andrei Kostitsyn = Notarised Stinky or Dean Stinky Trios or A Dork’s Intensity or Ideas Rink Snotty
_____________________________________________________________As was said in the House of Commons to Neville Chamberlain in 1940: You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!
you have far too much time on your hands
Bleak Master Ho and A Dork’s Intensity are terrific…although Coach Lips Rim would explain why Campoli gets ice time….
LOL
Erik Cole = Oil Creek
I swear Washington and Toronto just do not want to make the playoffs and are allowing not only the Habs but every team below them to make it a legit playoff race.
If habs win tomorrow and leafs lose to Oilers, 5 back. Things are going to be interesting.
we got the help we needed it, now time to go out there and take care of business
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Aaaaaand the Laffs get shelled in Calgary. What a shame.
must win tmrw nite
I support Scott Gomez
All the teams the Habs needed to lose lost.
Hope the Habs go on another winning streak!
CAREY CAREY CAREY
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…except Carolina last night.
Can’t win them all, no matter how good or bad you are.
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True. But don’t tonight’s outcomes reinforce the costs of the Habs losing important games that should be won?
The Blues lost to the worst team in the league, any given night, no matter how good or bad you are, you never know what will happen. Tomorrow night the Bruins should destroy the Habs. I like to think they won’t. One thing is for certain, if the Habs lose the morons will be posting one sad reply after another.
The Habs have excuses, one of the most injury riddled teams in the league. Players who were expected to be 40 goal scorers failed (Cammalleri), defense did not develop as fast as people hoped (PK, but I’m not worried about that kid) and management thought Markov was going to be good to go. That’s an extra 40 -50 goals the habs would have had in the lineup (not Markov, but in total). The list goes on.
Management is working to get it all working. Fans are fooling themselves thinking they are sitting back and watching beer sales.
Here is the lesson in the season. When things are great, then perfect, when things are bad, don’t get excited.
That last four game streak was awesome. Then they lost one game and the weaker minded fans lost control. Horrible people and even worse fans.
You can almost tell they don’t belong, don’t fit in, and have never accomplished anything in their little lives. Otherwise they would know, or would have learned from their mistakes. They haven’t, and a whole bunch of people are laughing at them.
Bah humbug
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Watching some clips of Gomez-Ladouceur on TSN2…. looks to me like he isn’t taking direction or change in authority too well.., sorta like a non-team player
Gallagher just broke the franchise record for goals for the Vancouver Giants tonight (127th goal). I was interested to see how the guy who held the record before him turned out…. wasn’t good. He played one season in the AHL.
Let’s hope Gallagher’s future is quite the opposite.
As each day passes, Gainey’s deal for Gomez looks worse and worse. And he’s virtually untradeable. Not much demand for a soft, underperforming, 7million dollar hockey player.
Besides the Roy trade, the Chelios for Savard trade, and given the realities of the salary cap, I can’t think of a worse deal by Habs management.
Not to mention how good Ryan McDonough has looked this year.
McDonough’s emergence is just salt in the wound.
Timmins drafted him thinking he was a blue chip prospect. And he’s become a blue chip blue liner.
Red Wings 21st home win in a row tonight. New NHL record. First overall (again) They may have a good mgmnt team there, but, hey, Habs mgmnt team is pretty good too. (just unluckey, too many injuries, unreliable medical staff, league is conspiring against Habs, poor reffing etc etc)
that trade looked dumb the moment it was made. even to gainey it looked dumb, he just refuses to admit it
Someone below was talking about possible contract structure in the next CBA.
Personally, I’d like to see a clause where anything over a 5-year deal can’t come off your books, regardless of whether you bury the player in the minors or not. If you’re stupid enough to hand out a 10 deal to keep a 30 year-old on your roster, you deserve to pay for it for a long time.
So Habs17 did you vote 117 times to keep gomez? :p
whats going on there? I guess we could keep him till the end of the season, get a good draft pick and then buy him out. If he had any common sense he would retire…
No my friend i actually have not voted once
I support Scott Gomez
Another quick question: Are Gomer or AK going to be in the press box in Beantown?
My gut tells me ‘no’. But I don’t see either of those guys getting PP time unless they score two 5 on 5.
isnt the game in montreal man
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I don’t think both will be in the pressbox, we don’t have enough forwards. I think Scott may end up there tomorrow night.
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thank you flames for keeping our faith alive, but i dont know if its a good or bad thing, to me rite now the habs feel like a girl i love, that keeps leaving me and coming back every month, dont know if i want them to just suck so we know to rebuild or drive for the playoffs ll
I support Scott Gomez
Anybody know how Avtsin is doing? If AK is gone soon, could he step into the role?
I think guys like Leblanc and even a good game by Palushaj last night have him far on the outside looking in. White is also due back next game. Not sure how if ever he’d get an opportunity?
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@Habs17
Still awaiting the SJ trade that your “sources” told you about. Tell me, do you have to wear a tin foil hat to stop your sources from speaking to you?
I think Habs17 is Gomez himself…
He talks about Gomez in HOF, 29 other teams would be happy to have him, etc.
Maybe he’s a successful troll?
You should try it some time. I pull the “Gomez is excellent” thing with my friends. Always a laugh.
The only possible trade that would deliver any sort of good news is maybe Kostitsyn for a 1st round pick. And even at that it would be a late 1st rounder because the team picking him up would be a playoff team.
Unless the Habs pull off a blockbuster but the chances of that are very slim.
just got off the phone and im hearing that nothing will happen till trade deadline day (or around there) the habs will be very active come this day, should be a great day
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lol.
Yeah just like the last few years
Did the conversation go something like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bEJz-HlK8Q
LOL
LOL @ Phaneuf.
Just gave up a penalty shot.
3-1 Flames.
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The Habs have Kiprusoff to thank so far. 30 saves and the 2nd isn’t over yet.
The difference between this years PK and last isn’t as much as many make it out to be. His plus/minus has improved substantially up to +2 from -8 last season (although I remember he and Gill had a terrible run where they were approx -10 over 3-4 games late last season).
He is also on pace to have more assists than last season, currently having 19, 24 last season.
There has been a huge drop in goals where he had an impressive 14 goals as a rookie, 9 of which came on the powerplay, and only 3 so far this season (1 PPG). He is on pace for roughly the same amount of shots.
I think PK had a few of his goals last season from the top of the circle rather than the blue line where he takes most of his shots from this year, his goal scoring could be a simple fix… get in closer for his PP shots..
Just a few thoughts on an exciting player..
Also PK is now on the number one D pairing and plays against the other team’s number one line.
He is getting better and better as a defenceman.
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Another reason why the firestorm of “get rid of Subban” talk earlier this year was certain proof of the existence of “mass hysteria.”
“Mass hysteria” is why we’re going to miss the playoffs. It’s really sad. The media and the fans influence the team and stir up firestorms in the dressing room and on the ice that wouldn’t happen anywhere else.
The team just recently settled down and they’re showing they can be pretty good, certainly a playoff team. All the crap with the coaches and French really threw the club for a loop and cost us the season.
that’s what happens playing in a city like montreal and especially the media in montreal
I support Scott Gomez
Yeah, it is easy to look at his goals and say he has regressed. I think his passing has been better, he goes into corners first knowing that the opposition is “gunning” for him.
I do think he could make things easier on himself if he played a more “quiet” game and learned to play with the same intensity while avoiding confrontation after whistles. I believe certain players are waiting for an opportunity to hurt him because of his yapping.
So Ruutu is out something like 3 weeks? Didn’t people want him just the other day?
Was it the mighty Plekanec check that put him out, cause if so, the Habs are getting tougher knowing White is back tomorrow night.
Tomorrow, the playoff push begins
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for other teams.
This just in….Hab’s players blatantly
refuse to (athletically) support Scott Gomez.
That’s why I don’t get Habs not sending him to Hamilton. Not like there will be a difference in production. He does as much by being here as he by not being here. Habs management is truly dumb.
Hockey with SG on your team = Dire Straits ” money for nothing and the chicks are free”.
around and around we go
I dont think Habs management is “dumb.” They have drafter bigger and stronger players, many that are starting to crack the lineup. The summer Koivu and Kovalev were let go for Cammalleri and Gionta as well as the Gomez trade is what hurts this team. That “blow up” of the team led to their best playoff run is years, and now missing the playoffs.
Sure the Markov signing is hurting this team now, but if he returns to form it may not be that bad.
Although, I do not have faith that the current management team can have the patients needed to add the proper pieces to this team. I fear there will be numerous “panic moves” made to fix the team this off season, bad trade, overpay for someone etc. I hope not though.
Well, it only took that Einstein Gauthier a year (or 2) to have his revelation and announce to “the great unwashed” that the Habs need more size and toughness.
how much does stephen harper make
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Officialy about $300000.
Unofficially, probably a whole lot more…..
Kickbacks? Under the table? Private Swiss bank account?
Richard R
7 Million $ hockey players get paid to lead, not float.
PLAYOFFS don’t talk about playoffs
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Your two statements go nicely together.
Gomez and missing the playoffs = good match.
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actually, i think gomez has missed the playoffs only once is entire career if that, so he know’s what it take’s so ur statement is false
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Knowing what it takes is far from doing what it takes.
Bruins shut out by the Rangers. Wonder if we’ll see a tired and frustrated group tomorrow. Or an angry motivated one.
Angry and tired?
Free passes to Chez Paree for them all!
Come on… Think of poor women who work there. It’s just wrong.
ahahahha good one Timo … good one
B’s outplayed pretty much the whole game. Rags did a good job shutting them down. Now they head out for a 6 game road trip. Should be interesting.
Timmy shoulda gone to the White House. LOL
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The whole Gomez situation really highlights how ridiculous guaranteed contracts are. It should be like the NFL in that if you don’t make the team in training camp, you can be cut at that point and become an unrestricted free agent. It should be like the arbitration rules where the club can opt not to pay the award, but also give up all rights to the player. A signing bonus can be used to guarantee part of the salary. At least guys like Redden and Huet might still be in the league.
Another option is to not make buy-outs so punitive towards the cap. The financial penalty should be enough. The Islanders will have a $2.2M cap hit on Yashin until 2014-2015 which is ridiculous.
I also hope contract lengths get limited to 5 years. A guy like Jeff Carter is now virtually untradeable despite being one of the elite centres in the league. Other than the guaranteed money, this is a lose-lose situation. Even factoring in the money, I wonder if Carter regrets the contract, having to face the next decade in Columbus? He will be 37 before he is a free agent again and have control over where he plays.
Gomez is a really extreme case. Even Yashin would be…no sorry about that. But it’s all on Gainey. And it’s not the only cockup he made either.
Really good post Phil. I’d also like to see the end of front-loading and all that nonsense. The player’s salary for the year should be his cap hit for that year. What’s so difficult about that?
Calgary 2 Toronto 0 in 1st period
Oh no… the hope’s been reborn.
So no Schultz against Bruins? I mean since we’re tanking might as well break a few noses along the way. Lucic and Marchand’s stick out the longest.
Yeah, a 6-2 / 202lbs Schults will beat the $h!t out of 6-4 / 220lbs Lucic.
If he could, he’d be a regular in the NHL already.
My trade wish is to send Gomez to the Ducks for Parros, well we know that’s not happening. So lets send AC instead. Forth line Schultz ,Parros and White and lets bring on the Bruns.
There’s no way we trade Calvillo…
I support the anti-Gomez. The one without press savvy, the piss-pour locker room guy, who gets 90 points a season, who leads by example on the ice, who scores 35 goals, back-checks always, and plays those tough minutes against the other team’s top line. The guy from Antarctica, with a mullet, who hits, takes a beating to go the net and has a negative cap hit of $7.5 million. Also the one who listens to his coach, never talks back, acts like a professional, and can do the drills at practice.
Gomez may be on waivers before the end of this season. Gomez will not be on this team next year.
Throw in a crazy furry beard and you got a deal.
We await the anti-Gomez with anticipation.
All hail Zemog!
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“Hey Richard, two minutes for looking so good!”
Zemog! LOL!
I think Ttocs Zemog is draft-eligible this year.
I’m hoping he will not be on this team next week. I can’t wait until next year.
NASH!
As much as I would love to have him on this team, I have to admit he would never have Mtl on his short-list of acceptable teams… we just don’t have a centreman he would like to play with.
Nash is too expensive for a trade. PG won’t get him I think.
Are you kidding me? Desharnais would set up Nash for 100 goals a season!
I think DD for Carter would be a good trade for Columbus.
“Andrei Kostitsyn will be traded this month”
- Sean Bonjovi
my “trade that useless tool” talk seems to have done the trick with PK and Plek so may as well open it up on AK. He’s a lazy “bella” russian who can’t seem to bring his extreme talent and size to every game. Forget him needing to play with better players, he needs to get his head out of his ass and start TRYING. That’s all we ask.
Trade his ass to the peg with Thomas and his big mouth.
pipes
By what just happened this morning’s practice, I want to know who’s really calling the shot’s here? Is it Randy Cunneyworth or Randy Ladouceur?
I was just watching the incident in CTV montreal and RC was not even saying a single word when RL dropped the f*** bomb on Gomez.
RC said he thought Ladouceur was handling the situation just fine, so he didn’t intervene.
A smart leader needs to encourage others to take control of situations.
Cunneyworth probably was thinking “glad he’s doing that – Gomez needs a big slap and it’s one more thing I don’t have to do”.
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White should kick Nomez’s ass in practice.
@HFS72
I agree with ending the relationship with AK 46 or play him as an offensive specialist only. I just don’t understand how JM and now Randy cannot harness his strengths ? JM played him on the PP in front of the net whenever he got the chance, which is not playing him to his strengths. IMO you’re better off putting Gill up there or Darche again, or Blunden or Moen ? And now Randy doesn’t use him and plays Gomer ? But never on the half wall ? BTW Cole’s PP goal last night was unreal ! But we have never tried developing AK there and we drafted him ? Which I think suits his strengths. Why isn’t the 2nd PP unit RB-TP-AK ?
Either way, My point is, we as an organization “effed up” with the K-bros. I like them, but don’t care if they’re both gone. I care about the organization/team. They should have been at very worst….. an excellent 3rd line for us with a decent 3rd line center (i.e. Lang who was a senior citizen at the time) at a good price. Or if we knew they weren’t gonna be good for us in the long term, they should have been traded for a good return when their value was good in the market. Instead, just benchings, revolving coaches, soap operas and fleeced trades while other teams benefit from our picks and development. When are the Canadiens gonna start winning at development and trades ?
So my question is, who is responsible for this ?
If we eff this up like SK and get nothing back, then that’s just dumb dumb dumb.
Habs, OLE !
Answer to your last 2 questions:
When Gainey and Gauthier are gone.
Gainey and Gauthier