from Fluto Shinzawa of the Boston Globe,
Marc Bergevin, the GM Poile ripped off, is 16 years younger than his Nashville counterpart. But by trading Subban for Shea Weber, Bergevin played the old-school part of Mr. Strickland, the no-nonsense principal from “Back to the Future.” There was nothing progressive about the way Bergevin and coconspirator Michel Therrien approached the singular Subban, whom they considered a problem more than a solution.
Without Carey Price, the Canadiens dive-bombed to 13th place in the Eastern Conference last season. Bergevin and Therrien may believe it was because Subban caved in the dressing room with his Mont Royal-sized personality, which undoubtedly did not gain the approval of some of his more conservative teammates.
“Yes, P.K. is different. We’re not going to hide that,” Bergevin told Montreal reporters. “But there was never an issue, never a problem. I fought with my teammates in practice. It happens all the time. I think it was blown out of proportion.”
The truth of the Canadiens is that they were not very good, from their perpetual absence of a go-to center to the mish-mash Bergevin collected for his bottom six forwards to the unimaginative approach the dictatorial Therrien adopted on the bench while his team smoldered on the ice.
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