Marc Bergevin sat at the helm of the Montreal Canadiens for more than NINE years. During that time, Bergy waved goodbye to the likes of P.K. Subban, Max Pacioretty and Phillip Danault but he also managed to draft and acquire young pieces that define the Canadiens of 2024. In this video we explore the highs and lows of the Bergevin era; from Mikhail Sergachev to Cole Caulfield. #nhl #montrealcanadiens #habs
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Great video
People give bergevin and now Hugues too much credit for certain things , when Timmins is the man who build that team . It was timmins that was scouting Suzuki as he was spotted in Owen sound multiple times prior to that trade and he wasn’t there for the Owensound caviar ,bergevin didn’t even know who he was . Timmins has been in situation where he was pressured to make bad picks as a draft , like when the crowd was chanting Leblanc Leblanc Leblanc or when Gainey told him to pick Fischer and Kostitsyn.
But yet anything decent on this habs team for the passed 15 years all the way to today , is in most part the work of timmins , caufield, Suzuki, sergachev, mcdonagh, Monty, primeau, Gallagher , price, pacioretty subban, xhekaj, Guhle, Harris, struble and the list goes on and on , all that without drafting 1st overall and rarely picking in the top 10 in all those years with the habs. Timmins also arguably had the best year as a head scout in a single draft when he drafted mcdonagh, pacioretty and subban with his 3 first picks
I think the habs did great when hiring Hugues who has done every jobs in hockey but I’m 100% sure Timmins would orvis a far superior ass gm/head scout than any guy in the league
Losing Danault was terrible
seventh game ..dont forget it most excited i have been in many years
Thank god this guy is gone.
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That is probably the worst top 10 I’ve ever seen
I’m not going to say Bergevin was amazing, because he had many flaws as a GM, but he was very good at managing assets when compared to guys like Gauthier and Gainey before him.
Also, he set this team up to succeed with the youth movement he began in his final two seasons. That includes his ruthless pick of Mailloux, which was, ultimately, the best choice at that time of the draft. If he didn’t take that guy, someone else would have eventually.
That being said, it was time to move on from him at exactly the time he was let go.
I’ll look back at his tenure fondly. Gauthier destroyed the future of this franchise and Bergevin left this team with far more than he started with.
As a habs fan I enjoyed your video. You did a great job. Fair and Factual. I can say that up until current management was in place a lot of great players were traded for the "now"
Segachev and Ryan McDonough were two that bit us hard in the ass.
I hope you make more videos.
7:23 It's a bit of a myth about Subban's defense. He was somewhat spectacular blunder prone when carrying the puck which gave the impression he was all offense but generally (other than the blunders) he was defensively sound, physical, good along the boards and won his share of puck battles. I find Matheson commits more blunders and is not as good physically.
Mailloux is way better at his job than you are at yours…and all you seem to do is talk. Nobody wants to know the mistakes of your youth. We are too busy dealing with the mistakes of your adulthood.
Great video. I found myself saying “hey, I remember him” and “hey, I remember that” a few times. Go Habs.
Hot trash who got lucky a few times.
Thank god the new GM has a better vision and has surrounded himself with a much better team to scout and were starting to see this come to life go Habs go
why can't he just be the leafs GM – we need someone willing to shake things up – plus like it or not, when he was habs GM they were in the conversation, makin moves, makin headlines, its good man
Hindsight is always 20/20. The reality is every GM in the league takes a gamble or two, some work out, and some don't. I think Bergevin was a kickass GM. He had his vision, and obviously that creates tension because the hockey media exists to complain, sell narratives, blow things out of proportion. Any other team in the league would be lucky to have him. Guy knows the game, respect
I’d say personally, that the terrible development and impatience of Bergevin with his players compared to his scouts and coaches were a down fall. He kept Lefebvre as head coach for six years, first 5 he missed the playoffs and in last year they were swept. While never producing any really good NHL prospects. He held onto coaches too long after they spiralled instead of relieving them and kept Timmins way too long considering his record
Bergy was pretty good 👍
Bergy did alot of bad, but also alot of good. Gave us suzuki, caufield, guhle, mailloux for the future
Letting Markov walk was his worst move, Price kinda made him look less worse and he rode gaineys players, i could go on
He's a clowshow
I’ll never forget their Cup run. It was magical.
Re-dic-ule…..red-i-cule
If results matter. He's the best GM since Savard.
I call it mixed results. Not a lot was said about the fact that the Canadiens lost Weber and Price to injury. Weber would never play another NHL game after that loss in the finals. Price barely played the following year and his time playing is done . And last but not least their best face off centreman Phillipe Danault signs as a ufa with the LA Kings. Habs were NOT going to recover from these three majors losses player wise.
it was 3-1
You deserve far more subscribers, this is excellent work. Long, long-time Habs fan and you've aptly captured the ups and downs of this era. Boy, that Sergachev deal was brutal, but you gotta give Bergevin credit for Domi/Galchenyuk and Pacioretty/Suzuki.
I remember calling him BergeHoule in 2018 and in the finals run I had so many people digging up that comment calling me an idiot
And I said “a broken clock is right twice a day, just you wait”
And boy oh boy did he prove me right again and those people blocked me and disappeared.
He was never a good GM, he did the bare ass minimum and worst of all he wasted Carey’s prime
Absolute dogshit
That Sergachev trade was catastrophic. How the Fuck do you trade for drouin, what an absolute waste of a trade and contract drouin was. Absolutely zero heart and no drive
we cannot be 100% mad about his tenure but he made the canadiens stagnant for too long, instead of trying to go all in when carey price and subban were on their primes
The team was mediocre, and was made to look somewhat impressive only by the play of their goaltender. When Price struggled or was injured it was obvious to everyone that without him the team was nothing. Any GM could have had playoff success with Price in net. What Bergevin did was squander the best years of Price, not upgrading the team when it desparately needed it.
Kind of a controversial opinion, but I honestly liked Marc Bergevin. He brought us to the Stanley Cup final and Conference final which no GM have done since our last cup in 1993. I thought he was really good at making trades and getting the best player back. Apart from the Drouin deal, which I really understand at the time, he really had done way more steal than got robbed. His asset management was I thought excellent. I also thought he had a really good flair at bringing really strong depth forward and defense. He brought us a lot of very good character guys which helped us massively overcoming on paper better teams in the playoffs.
His biggest critisism was by far his drafting. Which to be fair the poor drafting (mostly in the 1st round) really is the reason why I think they couldn't get the next step. We really could of use a star player at that time, which we couldn't draft. But, really how much is poor drafting really the GM's fault? The scouts have obviously way more knowledge about the prospects than the GM do and he have to rely on their opinion a lot. Of course you could say he could of fired Timmins earlier or wathever. But, I wouldn't put too much weight on the poor drafting on Bergevin. Saying all that I think his time was due, I'm really happy with the new management team and their new vision. But, Bergevin I think was a bit unfairly hated when in reality he did a lot more than any GM have done in the past decade for the habs
Bergevin was good at finding those depth pieces but he could never really scout the skill level a top tier talent needed. He did draft Cole, guhle and got us suzuki. But it was sort of like bergevin the gm was great at scouting players like bergevin the player. But he could never really get those 1st line guys,
Bergevin continued the Habs 20 plus year of mediocrity. We are now on year 31
You got a new subscriber bro. Nice work keep posting 🥇👍
Bergevin didn't give Montréal anything while being GM. And he's responsible for Price's ridiculous contract for 10.5M for 8 years and Price abandoned the team before the end of his contract because of injuries.