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So the Montréal Canadiens look like they’re back to mostly normal… which is really ****ing upsetting. Seeing everyone succeed is amazing, and I’m not too worried about our lottery chances being hurt, but holy **** this makes the Toffoli trade hurt more than I thought was possible. Why the **** did you trade him? Of course this team isn’t good enough as currently constructed, and it makes sense to sell off some players, especially Ben Chiarot. But Tyler Toffoli? You seriously couldn’t have waited at least a few more weeks to see what happens with the team that made it to the Cup Finals last year instead of committing to a rebuild after being involved in hockey management for less than a ****ing month?
By trading Toffoli, a guy who loves the city and team, is a great leader, and a great player on a great contract, you’ve condemned yourselves to a long rebuild rather than keeping your options open with a team that isn’t that bad right now, with the guys who helped lead us to the Cup Finals playing up to what their potential again, with the exception of 1 player*, because your stupid ass ****ing traded him away.
**** you Kent Hughes. **** you. (And if this is all Gorton and not Hughes, **** him.)
*Technically 3 but I’m not including Carey & Phil for obvious reasons. (Or Eddy)
Maybe I’m overreacting, and it turns out this team really, really needs a long rebuild. But the fact that management is so dead set on that that they can’t even take it slow and let the season play out before the deadline before committing to your entire plan for the team’s future is ****ing infuriating and idiotic.
And I might be less angry if they had just traded away everyone I liked and I would just stop watching hockey and move on, but the fact that Caufield is clearly going to be here for a really long time means that I’m going to continue to watch this team for the next decade while always having that feeling of regret and pain in the pit of my stomach at the fact that the team that brought me so much joy was set back years by terrible luck, a god awful final few months from Bergevin, and the stupid impatience of the new management.**
**That is one hell of a run on sentence, but I’m too upset to figure out how to separate it effectively.