georgegreece - (george constantelis)

Member since February 25, 2012

athens, greece

Habs fan since: 1966
Favorite current player: pacioretty
All-time favorite player: guy lapointe

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• Comment on No blockbusters among Habs' trade-deadline deals
  Living in Greece for the last 8 years, have enjoyed reading the comments from my fellow MTL Canadiens fans. This is the first time I am writing. Having grown up watching the great teams of the 70,s with all those Hall of Famers (too many to start mentioning), it is now obvious that we took the great GM Sam Pollock for granted. He had great people around him, his actions were strategic and not of desperation, he drafted carefully, he had excellent Qeubecois players on the team (Savard, Lapointe, Lemaire, Houle, Tremblay, Lambert - and many others). I will not mention Lafleur - these kind of players are one in a lifetime. He understood that we live in Qeubec - and he gave the fans what they wanted. At the same time he drafted. Robinson, Shutt, Dryden, etc and when needed he went out and traded for the best (Frank Mahovlich). The present day Canadiens management in my humble opinion is unfortunately lacking Vision. Winning games - doing well in the playoffs is not enough. We need exciting hockey, we need home grown players (there is nothing wrong with this). This is a critical time for the franchise. We need to get ASAP as many #1 draft choices as we can. The way these are being handed out, it is a great opportunity to trade Moen, AK for one. We are almost assured of drafting a gifted offensive player (one of Yakupov, Forsberg, Grigorenko, Galchenyuk). With another #1 we can get lucky and have another player drop to the 20's (see last year with Bealieu). With Carter, Hemsky and Ruutu not any more available - Moen and AK have greater value. Lastly from the above list I believe that the greatest deadline trade was not mentioned: Rivet for Gorges and a #1 (Pacioretty). Actually the best trade that Bob Gainey ever made (you have arguably the best defenseman and scorer). I apologize for the long note- as I mentioned this is my first post. My dream is to bring my kids to MTL to watch a playoff game and to live the Montreal Canadien experience.
• Comment on No blockbusters among Habs' trade-deadline deals
  Living in Greece for the last 8 years, have enjoyed reading the comments from my fellow MTL Canadiens fans. This is the first time I am writing. Having grown up watching the great teams of the 70,s with all those Hall of Famers (too many to start mentioning), it is now obvious that we took the great GM Sam Pollock for granted. He had great people around him, his actions were strategic and not of desperation, he drafted carefully, he had excellent Qeubecois players on the team (Savard, Lapointe, Lemaire, Houle, Tremblay, Lambert - and many others). I will not mention Lafleur - these kind of players are one in a lifetime. He understood that we live in Qeubec - and he gave the fans what they wanted. At the same time he drafted. Robinson, Shutt, Dryden, etc and when needed he went out and traded for the best (Frank Mahovlich). The present day Canadiens management in my humble opinion ais unfortunately lacking Vision. Winning games - doing well in the playoffs is not enough. We need exciting hockey, we need home grown players (there is nothing wrong with this). This is a critical time for the franchise. We need to get ASAP as many #1 draft choices as we can. The way these are being handed out, it is a great opportunity to trade Moen, AK for one. We are almost assured of drafting a gifted offensive player (one of Yakupov, Forsberg, Grigorenko, Galchenyuk). With another #1 we can get lucky and have another player drop to the 20's (see last year with Bealieu). With Carter, Hemsky and Ruutu not any more available - Moen and AK have greater value. Lastly from the above list I believe that the greatest deadline trade was not mentioned: Rivet for Gorges and a #1 (Pacioretty). Actually the best trade that Bob Gainey ever made (you have arguably the best defenseman and scorer). I apologize for the long note- as I mentioned this is my first post. My dream is to being my kids to MTL to watch a playoff game and to live the Montreal Canadien experience.