So with PK locked up long term, how long before MT gets fired?
- fidopro

maybe that's what the arbitrator was deciding on.

I just don't like/get the "hurt feelings" coming from you and most of the media.
- WaterBoy

Habs will need to hire a team of sports psychologists that will help reconstruct PK's inner self that was destroyed by MB this summer.

Never seen to much drama even in the Gainey era.
Bergevin is french-québécois, deal with it.
- Not_Yan

I think you're on to something my friend...

We will move on, Howard.
But as many hockey players and coaches and general managers say "It's not just about the end result, it's a process".

The process speaks volumes about why the end result was achieved. And I think that's all in this blog.
- EricEngels

Guessing that you don't think the term "a means to an end" applies here?

Then why do we have to criticize the way it went down? Obviously, both sides did what they needed to do, and they made it happen.
- hscesq

well there's no point criticizing right now because it's done. but i think the criticism was justified on Friday with the way things were looking.

Never seen to much drama even in the Gainey era.
Bergevin is french-québécois, deal with it.
- Not_Yan

You really think this is the reason for all the fuss?

Never seen to much drama even in the Gainey era.
Bergevin is french-québécois, deal with it.
- Not_Yan

I think it has reached "Halak trade" proportions

well there's no point criticizing right now because it's done. but i think the criticism was justified on Friday with the way things were looking.
- DoubleDown

You're entitled to your opinion.























It's incorrect, but you're entitled to it.

You really think this is the reason for all the fuss?
- hscesq

When you see from where the fuss is coming, this is a legit question...

You really think this is the reason for all the fuss?
- hscesq

Pierre Mcguire would have never gone down that road.

When you see from where the fuss is coming, this is a legit question...
- fidopro

Well, I'm not there, so I cannot know the extent of it.

I just don't like/get the "hurt feelings" coming from you and most of the media.
- WaterBoy

PK seems savvy enough to handle the whole thing for what it was: business. nothing else.

Pierre Mcguire would have never went that road.
- stinger67

The hard approach you mean?

I just don't like/get the "hurt feelings" coming from you and most of the media.
- WaterBoy

Read Elliotte's piece that I linked to in the blog.
"Hurt feelings" are overcome. This was also acknowledged in the blog.

Pierre Mcguire would have never gone that road.
- stinger67

I'm really disappointed he didn't get the job in PIT.

PK seems savvy enough to handle the whole thing for what it was: business. nothing else.
- DoubleDown

That's what we're trying to say.

You really think this is the reason for all the fuss?
- hscesq

The problem is that Bergevin dresses at Bouclair.

The problem is that Bergevin dresses at Bouclair.
- EssuieToutJeune

You really think this is the reason for all the fuss?
- hscesq

Not THE reason, but he never gets a pass from day 1.
Never seen so much drama (based on assumptions and impressions and feelings) compared to the catastrophic moves à la Gomez.

You're entitled to your opinion.























It's incorrect, but you're entitled to it.
- hscesq

it's not an opinion you twit. optics were negative on Friday afternoon.

Not THE reason, but he never gets a pass from day 1.
Never seen so much drama (based on assumptions and impressions and feelings) compared to the catastrophic moves à la Gomez.
- Not_Yan

Gainey was a Habs legend, though.






His star faded away since then.

PK seems savvy enough to handle the whole thing for what it was: business. nothing else.
- DoubleDown

In hindsight, absolutely. In the moment, of course not. It was all business until the doors closed on Friday and the hearing began. These guys aren't robots. How would he feel about the Habs willingness to trust him, respect him, etc if they weren't willing to give him an offer close to his market value over 8 years, and they'd rather go through with arbitration?

Meehan may see through it, and Meehan probably saw Subban through it. But he's a proud guy and so is Bergevin--by nature.

And in the end, we all agree that the best business prevailed.

it's not an opinion you twit. optics were negative on Friday afternoon.
- DoubleDown

Gauntlet: thrown.

Not THE reason, but he never gets a pass from day 1.
Never seen so much drama (based on assumptions and impressions and feelings) compared to the catastrophic moves à la Gomez.
- Not_Yan

I don't see why. What moves has the guy made that turned out to be the wrong ones? Not many that I can think of.

it's not an opinion you twit. optics were negative on Friday afternoon.
- DoubleDown

Fiber optics?