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Addison_Rae

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Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 4, 2023 at 4:54 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 4, 2023 at 4:49 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMSep. 6, 2021 at 11:37 a.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 14, 2021 at 10:39 a.m.
Thread: Two Bergevin mistakes that hurts
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>SCGLisme2</b></div><div>Take the good with the bad as they say. Too much trying to appease the French media which hurts the team long term. Drouin for Sergachev case in point!
Kk needs time to grow and with Suzuki who Bergy got basically for free will take the pressure off him.
Armia was another steal of a deal that only helps. Need to resign him!</div></div>

Danault was an absolute steal too.
Weber is a good move
Anderson's trade is great (Galchenyuk for Domi, Domi for Anderson) but is contract is a bit too high IMO.
Petry trade is a steal.
Another mistake might be Gallagher's contract who may be too high, might look as a cap dump in a couple years.

A lot of good moves, we can't really complain, I just wanted to see it :p
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 24, 2021 at 8:57 p.m.
Forum: Fauteuil - DGApr. 20, 2021 at 9:23 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 18, 2021 at 11:35 p.m.
Thread: Marc Bergevin is Going to be Fired
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Addison_Rae</b></div><div>I mean those teams have elite, bona-fide, number 1 centremen. Bergeron and O'Reilly.</div></div>

I see your point. But we don't know exactly how good Suzuki or Kotkaniemi are yet. But yes, chances are neither of them become a Bergeron or O'Rielly. I don't think Montreal has a cup in their future, but they are still a decent team.

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Icehockey18121124</b></div><div>Yes, the leafs got lucky in their rebuild and came out as a very strong team but then there are the savers who have two first overall picks and are still awful and looking at another potential 1st overall pick.

The devils had two 1st overall picks and were supposed to be a playoff team last year but are still bottom dwellers.

The oilers had three consecutive years of first overall picks and were terrible until they got lucky and got a 4th the McDavid year. It still took them years to be a legitimate playoff team and they still have a lot of depth issues. If that had not been the McDavid year they may still not have made the playoffs.

The kings won 2 cups by being average and then turning it on in the playoffs.

Boston has done some retools while never tanking and drafted players like Pasta and McAvoy.

My point is that no strategy works every time, it takes luck, making the right deals (some of which you don’t know if it was the right deal until 5 or more years later), and maybe most importantly being able to develop players.</div></div>

This. While high picks help, they guarentee nothing.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 18, 2021 at 8:31 p.m.
Thread: Marc Bergevin is Going to be Fired
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Addison_Rae</b></div><div>I'm not saying he's a bad GM, I'm saying he lacks vision. You either tank or go all in, no in-between, especially for a franchise of Montreal's caliber. If you draft in the middle, you make moves for average to slightly above average players, that's all you'll get, an average team. A team that is mediocre. Sure the draft takes luck and you need to be bad at the right time to draft the right player. What you can't do is be bad for one season, draft one top draft player and say "everything is good now let's try and compete". That almost never works. If you're going to be bad, be bad, tank, draft the right players and maybe you'll be good in 3-4 years. But if you follow MB's blueprint and stay around the middle, that's all your team will ever be in the middle. Take the Leafs for example, of the 6 past draft years if they were to draft once in the top 5 (not the number one) and a bunch in the middle of the first round, would they have the team constructed today? No. That's because they had a vision to build a successful team. Sure it took some luck and really bad seasons but look at them now, near unstoppable. So if you tell me to pick a plan to build a franchise, I'll always pick the Leafs way of "resetting" rather than the Canadiens.</div></div>

Yes, the leafs got lucky in their rebuild and came out as a very strong team but then there are the savers who have two first overall picks and are still awful and looking at another potential 1st overall pick.

The devils had two 1st overall picks and were supposed to be a playoff team last year but are still bottom dwellers.

The oilers had three consecutive years of first overall picks and were terrible until they got lucky and got a 4th the McDavid year. It still took them years to be a legitimate playoff team and they still have a lot of depth issues. If that had not been the McDavid year they may still not have made the playoffs.

The kings won 2 cups by being average and then turning it on in the playoffs.

Boston has done some retools while never tanking and drafted players like Pasta and McAvoy.

My point is that no strategy works every time, it takes luck, making the right deals (some of which you don’t know if it was the right deal until 5 or more years later), and maybe most importantly being able to develop players.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 18, 2021 at 8:57 p.m.
Thread: Marc Bergevin is Going to be Fired
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Addison_Rae</b></div><div>But this team should've been rebuilt instead of being "reset" by MB after the disaster that was the 2017 playoff loss to the Rangers that sent the Captain and Galchenyuk packing. We got one year of a top-five draft pick and I understand that you can't help it if the team plays hard like they did in Domi's first year en route to a 96-point regular season. He really should of tried to have a few years like the leafs where they were absolutely dreadful but look at them now, cream of the crop in the league. And if you are trying to win, as MB has stated numerous times, you cannot have players that were on your "reset" team on the "playoff" team. Guys like Byron, Lekhonen, Armia, Drouin, etc.</div></div>

well addison, you can't rebuild in montreal. fans would have burnt the bell center down. thats why he couldn't rebuild. he had to take the longer route. i wish we could have tanked like toronto, but say toronto doesn't land matthews. they're still trash in that case. but i agree with you.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 18, 2021 at 8:21 p.m.
Thread: Marc Bergevin is Going to be Fired
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Addison_Rae</b></div><div>I'm not saying he's a bad GM, I'm saying he lacks vision. You either tank or go all in, no in-between, especially for a franchise of Montreal's caliber. If you draft in the middle, you make moves for average to slightly above average players, that's all you'll get, an average team. A team that is mediocre. Sure the draft takes luck and you need to be bad at the right time to draft the right player. What you can't do is be bad for one season, draft one top draft player and say "everything is good now let's try and compete". That almost never works. If you're going to be bad, be bad, tank, draft the right players and maybe you'll be good in 3-4 years. But if you follow MB's blueprint and stay around the middle, that's all your team will ever be in the middle. Take the Leafs for example, of the 6 past draft years if they were to draft once in the top 5 (not the number one) and a bunch in the middle of the first round, would they have the team constructed today? No. That's because they had a vision to build a successful team. Sure it took some luck and really bad seasons but look at them now, near unstoppable. So if you tell me to pick a plan to build a franchise, I'll always pick the Leafs way of "resetting" rather than the Canadiens.</div></div>

I agree complete rebuilding is a better way to go, but winning a cup is still possible with the way Montreal runs. Look at Boston and St Louis for example. Neither team had a set of high draft picks, but they still were able to win a cup by staying good (though not elite) for a long period of time, and making good depth moves. I don't think Montreal wins a cup under Bergevin, but the style that he uses still can provide cups.