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I will get banned again soon, worry not.
Sure, on the surface it may look like an historically bad year for the franchise, but let's remember all the good things that the Habs achieved this season.
First and foremost, they achieved an ending to one of the most incompetent and destructive managerial tenures in franchise history when they were finally bad enough on the ice to force Molson to get rid of Bergevin and Timmins from the 7th floor executive suites.
This led to a second and potentially even more significant achievement: the hiring of an Anglo President and and Anglo GM, something I never thought we'd ever see again in Montreal. Despite the predictable outcry from the usual suspects in the French media, Molson's balls finally dropped and he did something real to address the problem rather than taking the safe route and hiring another unqualified "p'tit gars de chez nous" like Patrick Roy.
This move, in turn, led to the dismissal of another incompetent Francophone, Dom Ducharme. Replacing him with Marty St, Louis almost screwed us out of finishing last. He certainly had an impact on the players we all need him to have an impact on: Suzuki and Caufield. And when I saw a game go to overtime and St. Louis put out actual rookies to play instead of nailing them to the bench I knew that the philosophy had changed. This team now tries to win games rather than just not lose them. No more Plekanec/Danault bullshit Fredo hockey. That's an accomplishment for a franchise that has been risk-averse to the point of absurdity for the last 30 years.
And finally, the tank. We have achieved the best odds to get the first overall pick. But even if we wind up only getting the second or third pick we have the comfort of knowing that Bergevin and Timmins are no longer there to fuck it up so we should still get a good player.
It may not have felt like it while it was happening, but this was a season of achievement and certainly one with a lot more promise than our fluke trip to the final last season.
First and foremost, they achieved an ending to one of the most incompetent and destructive managerial tenures in franchise history when they were finally bad enough on the ice to force Molson to get rid of Bergevin and Timmins from the 7th floor executive suites.
This led to a second and potentially even more significant achievement: the hiring of an Anglo President and and Anglo GM, something I never thought we'd ever see again in Montreal. Despite the predictable outcry from the usual suspects in the French media, Molson's balls finally dropped and he did something real to address the problem rather than taking the safe route and hiring another unqualified "p'tit gars de chez nous" like Patrick Roy.
This move, in turn, led to the dismissal of another incompetent Francophone, Dom Ducharme. Replacing him with Marty St, Louis almost screwed us out of finishing last. He certainly had an impact on the players we all need him to have an impact on: Suzuki and Caufield. And when I saw a game go to overtime and St. Louis put out actual rookies to play instead of nailing them to the bench I knew that the philosophy had changed. This team now tries to win games rather than just not lose them. No more Plekanec/Danault bullshit Fredo hockey. That's an accomplishment for a franchise that has been risk-averse to the point of absurdity for the last 30 years.
And finally, the tank. We have achieved the best odds to get the first overall pick. But even if we wind up only getting the second or third pick we have the comfort of knowing that Bergevin and Timmins are no longer there to fuck it up so we should still get a good player.
It may not have felt like it while it was happening, but this was a season of achievement and certainly one with a lot more promise than our fluke trip to the final last season.
