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Habs Season Thread: 2024-25 Regular Season

Bottom line, you still have to fill the roster with competent players. No way this market will allow the Habs to add players like Condotta, Stephens , Simoneau or not ready Davidson or Roy etc to the roster as they purge others.
 
I mean, sure, he makes them better...

...By default.

You have Kovacevic, a guy who's barely NHL caliber, and Barron playing 18-20+ minutes on the first/second pairing when Savard's out.

Again, less to do with how good Savard is & more with how putrid our right side is. Not trying to take a dig at Savard, but let's be honest.
 
wiseguy1 said:
Bottom line, you still have to fill the roster with competent players. No way this market will allow the Habs to add players like Condotta, Stephens , Simoneau or not ready Davidson or Roy etc to the roster as they purge others.
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You keep saying what the market will or won't allow despite proof to the contrary. The fans in Montreal over the last 25 years have proven time and time again that they will allow whatever the team forces them to allow. Good, bad, or otherwise the one thing that Montreal hockey fans never do is stop showing up. The ticket prices average triple figures, they go up every year, and by puck drop pretty much every seat has someone's ass sitting in it. Jerseys priced between $150 - $300 still fly off the store shelves like they're going out of style. Every ugly retro or alternate jersey that gets released is gobbled up. The Habs are a license to print money and the team's performance on the ice hasn't impacted their bottom line since Guy Lafleur was still playing. The Habs are now just like the Leafs in that they no longer need to win in order to be immensely profitable. So stop pretending that there's some sort of mythical tipping point at which the fans revolt by not opening their wallets because it's never happening.

The fans will "allow" whatever the fuck they're told to allow. They long ago ceded their power. They are slaves now. If they could put up with Christian Laflamme, Craig Darby, Eric Chouinard, and Johan Witehall 20-odd years ago, they'll certainly be able to put up with Condotta, Stephens, Simoneau or Davidson without batting an eye. All management has to do is stay the course, fuck the fans, and keep tanking.
 
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