Posts About "Andrei Markov"
Bergevin’s Top Offseason Priorities as Canadiens GM
May 13th, 2018 If this were any other offseason, Canadiens GM Marc Bergevin would be able to sit back and relax, relatively speaking. After all, he has no unrestricted free agents on his current roster he absolutely needs to re-sign, unless you count Ales Hemsky and/ or Antti Niemi. Niemi undeniably performed admirably as Carey Price’s back-up,...
Plekanec Has Secured His Legacy with Canadiens
February 6th, 2018 Tomas Plekanec’s games with the Montreal Canadiens could be numbered. It’s for the best, though. Plekanec as a Montreal Canadien It also can’t be helped, barring a screw-up by general manager Marc Bergevin. With Plekanec set to hit free agency as a soon-to-be 36-year-old and his production in sharp decline, it doesn’t make...
Ten Questions for Marc Bergevin
January 31st, 2018 Will Marc Bergevin lose his job after the garbage fire of a season in Montreal? The jury is still out. Few doubt that this aborted season is Bergevin's responsibility. However, in the Montreal Canadiens organization, incompetence is not enough to get you fired. In an otherwise results-based business, language politics influence Les...
Grieving the Canadiens Lost Season
January 22nd, 2018 For fans of the Montreal Canadiens, this year has been a fiasco. This was not mere misfortune we are talking about, and it cannot be properly described as hard luck. It was a calamitous collapse of epic proportions. An unmitigated disaster. A catastrophe brought about by hubris and managerial incompetence. It is time to grieve for a...
The Tragedy of Streit’s Second Canadiens Stint
October 12th, 2017 Yes, technically defenseman Mark Streit is still a member of the Montreal Canadiens… for now. No Takers for Streit One can be excused for laughing at initial reports that Streit was being shopped. Having since been placed on waivers, Streit had initially signed a one-year, $700,000 deal with the Canadiens on July 25, nearly one...
In Defense of Frustrated Habs Fans
October 2nd, 2017 In a piece likely to amplify the very things he despises, Jack Todd in the Montreal Gazette takes on the rise of Habs "hate fans." Todd calls the quality of debate in Habs nation ugly. He writes: The debate as it is framed today is unpleasant. It’s pointless. Above all, it’s irrational. It detracts considerably from the entire...
