Habs Season Thread: 2024-25 Regular Season
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Sal_Butera
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Seems like playoff is counting this time around ..
GGpX
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I mean, both Lou & The Charlatan have no business there, but since the voting's done after round 2 and sorry Joe Sakic but your team lost, this is what we get.
Sal_Butera
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Based on regular season + first two rounds of playoffs
Sal_Butera
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Going down a rabbit hole, anyway...
Perspective is necessary:
- Stevie Y inherited two elite talents (Hedman & Stamkos) yet in 10-years as GM of TBay missed playoffs 4-times, same as MB.
- Jim Nill in 9-years as GM, has missed playoffs 4-times and made it to final four or greater once (last year)
- Sakic in 8-years as GM has missed playoffs 3-times and has yet to reach final four of playoffs with a packed set of top-3 picks
All of Stevie Y, Nill and Sakic are GMs who operate in markets that are player preferred destinations (for a myriad of reasons).
Not saying MB is blameless and doesn’t have faults(plenty in amateur scouting & development specifically), but suspect the hockey world views MB in a different light than many in the fanbase
Perspective is necessary:
- Stevie Y inherited two elite talents (Hedman & Stamkos) yet in 10-years as GM of TBay missed playoffs 4-times, same as MB.
- Jim Nill in 9-years as GM, has missed playoffs 4-times and made it to final four or greater once (last year)
- Sakic in 8-years as GM has missed playoffs 3-times and has yet to reach final four of playoffs with a packed set of top-3 picks
All of Stevie Y, Nill and Sakic are GMs who operate in markets that are player preferred destinations (for a myriad of reasons).
Not saying MB is blameless and doesn’t have faults(plenty in amateur scouting & development specifically), but suspect the hockey world views MB in a different light than many in the fanbase
GrandWazoo
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Or to bring the Islanders to the semi-finals.
Also I suspect that they have a bias for action. Just drafting well and developing your players is not as sexy as trades and UFAs.
CH1
The Artist Formerly Known as chiggins.
maybe it’s me but I don’t give a GM high marks for assembling a roster good enough to clinch one of the last playoff spots so he can hope “ some magic happens”
Steve Y and Sakic built teams that could contend for several years. That is a GMs goal, IMO
TLDR A GMs performance is best measured in multi yr chunks
Steve Y and Sakic built teams that could contend for several years. That is a GMs goal, IMO
TLDR A GMs performance is best measured in multi yr chunks
CH1
The Artist Formerly Known as chiggins.
But not enough to get fired, alas
GrandWazoo
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Thunder
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Bergevin totally deserves to be in nomination for the "What have you done since October 2020 Award".
***** Tyler Toffoli
**** Domi / Anderson trade
**** Jake Allen
*** Corey Perry
** Joel Edmunson
* Eric Staal
Pretty close to Zito's acquistions of Hornqvist, Verhaeghe, Duclair, Bennett, Wennberg, & Gudas.
***** Tyler Toffoli
**** Domi / Anderson trade
**** Jake Allen
*** Corey Perry
** Joel Edmunson
* Eric Staal
Pretty close to Zito's acquistions of Hornqvist, Verhaeghe, Duclair, Bennett, Wennberg, & Gudas.
Nonsense , Covid saved his ass and any viewpoint that others may have of him
It would of been 4 straight missed playoffs
9 years , time is up .
Not sure about Domi's trade(signing Anderson to that contract), but yeah for the rest so far so good.