"Anybody who is a hockey person and says they are not interested in the job are not sincere, specially if you are passionate about where you grew up and the team you cheered for growing up"
i said it earlier, McGuire WOULD TAKE any management job in Montreal if offered.
"Anybody who is a hockey person and says they are not interested in the job are not sincere, specially if you are passionate about where you grew up and the team you cheered for growing up"
Yea who saw this coming, good thing we have guys like Marinaro around as I never would have thought PG would be fired after the excellent job he's done.
Gauthier getting fired was a given, but Marinaro said at the same time that Molson met with Savard months ago to hire him as an advisor. Nobody else had Savard coming on.
Right they must be of one mind, when one drinks the other can't speak and vice versa. A strange animal this Gainthier, one man in the the body of two. Never disagreeing and when one resigns the other is put in his place, makes sense to me.
Keep desperatly grabbing at any straw, it just gets sadder and sadder.
What straw and sadness? I'm quite pleased Gainthier is gone.
For what its worth, I know for a fact that McGuire would not only accept the Montreal GM gig, it is the ONLY job he wants. Including GM of another team.
Said this in another thread about bringing McGuire on board:
Well, it is my personal belief that in the new NHL, amateur scouting is more important than pro-scouting, and that's where the Gainey/Gauthier regime failed miserably. The scouting staff in Montreal is about 1/3 of what it should be. I'll agree that the pro-scouting has been horrible for the most part, but it's beyond me how we as fans knew the Kaberle deal was a bad one, same for Bourque. That's not even pro-scouting, that's not willing to pay for a plane ticket to watch said player play.
There are good young players in place right now. For the upcoming crop that will be making their way, hopefully, to the AHL next year, I'm not as sold on them as some of you are, but hey, they are what they are, prospects.
I wouldn't go out looking for a new veteran group as a) the existing one is still under contract and b) by the time their contracts are up, we'll be talking about how some of these younger players have grown into veterans.
So while I somewhat agree with your observation, I still feel a rebuild is needed in Montreal, maybe not to a full Edmontonian extent, but it should be approached that way, i.e. trading away veteran players to stock up on pics and prospects. I feel McGuire would be the man for the job.
As I'm typing this, I'm also making another somewhat related point in that the organization needs a rebuild (duh) meaning once you do have those picks and prospects, you must have the right personel to develop them, and that's not to be overlooked by the new GM.
GM needs to be in place sooner rather than later so that the new GM has time to institute the changes that are needed ... he mentioned a list of changes that need to happen off ice.
I would bring in Bergevin as GM and McGuire as Asst. McGuire knows ALOT about hockey and knows every player in the nhl + juniors. He breaths hockey and he simply just love the montreal market, but I'm not sure he would be able to run a team.
Montreal has best fans, best hockey market, best... Its almost like we didn't have a crappy year.
with still almost no REAL (****ing winners!) replacements for neither GM nor Coaching. (Everyone is naming people with zero experience)
Players, coaches and GM's are all dying to come to Montreal... what great market Montreal has in 2012!
Montreal has best fans, best hockey market, best... Its almost like we didn't have a crappy year.
with still almost no REAL (****ing winners!) replacements for neither GM nor Coaching. (Everyone is naming people with zero experience)
Players, coaches and GM's are all dying to come to Montreal... what great market Montreal has in 2012!
