His mistake was messing with Gainey and not taking a very good offer when it was on the table. Now, it's too late to come back. Maybe if he had stayed and worked his way into managements good graces, but he didn't, so too bad.
Yeah uhhh no. Have distractions ever been a good thing?
Still living under the Gainey/JM paradigm that the team has to be INCREDIBLY BORING AND SILENT at all time?
The right thing to do is control the distraction and the information that reach the public, without ever stopping the flow. Provoking your own little scandals once in a while rather than waiting for something to leak outside of your control is just overall better, plus it's amusing to the press and fans if you manage to keep these non-events under a certain threshold.
Still living under the Gainey/JM paradigm that the team has to be INCREDIBLY BORING AND SILENT at all time?
The right thing to do is control the distraction and the information that reach the public, without ever stopping the flow. Provoking your own little scandals once in a while rather than waiting for something to leak outside of your control is just overall better, plus it's amusing to the press and fans if you manage to keep these non-events under a certain threshold.
Better to get Semin. He is like Kovalev but much younger and healthier.
Gutless and lazy, he brings nothing to the team and encourages poor attitude and selfish behavior. No thanks floatalev, Koivu isn't here anymore to carry your ass.
> Hire an English Coach
> English coach announces at his press conference that he invited Kovalev to camp before the french media kills him.
> Kovalev sucks it up and plays his way off the team.
> Media forgets the coach is english.
Yes?
A distraction? From what? That this Habs organization top to bottom is the weakest in it's history? Bringing back a washed up player would only confirm it, not distract from it.
Petrov is probably better at this point, definitively more dedicated.
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Originally Posted by Agnostic
A distraction? From what? That this Habs organization top to bottom is the weakest in it's history? Bringing back a washed up player would only confirm it, not distract from it.
That's not really fair at this point as Bergevin is an unknown. Yes there are tons of question marks but I still think the Houle years were the organizations weakest.
