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The "Conservative" Montreal Canadiens Need To Start Spending Their Money

04/09/2019 at 8:54am EDT

from Brendan Kelly of the Montreal Gazette,

This is the most conservative hockey team in the universe and ever since they ran Guy Lafleur out of town, they’ve remained obsessed with fitting every offensive talent into a defence-first cookie-cutter mold. Julien lives and breathes that tradition, as does Bergevin. They’re allergic to exciting talent.

Your Honour, I present as exhibit No. 1 Jonathan Drouin. It’s a scary thing to see how this approach has sapped everything out of this young player. How do you expect him to shine playing with the youngest guy in the league — Jesperi Kotkaniemi — and Joel Armia? There is a lot of talk about trading Drouin, but that’s absurd. With his contract and his pitiful performance during the final third of the season, they’ll get nothing in return for him.

This management group needs to start being a little more innovative and a lot more aggressive, two things not normally found in the Molson/Bergevin tool box. They were conservative at the trade deadline and that was a mistake. One impact player could’ve got them into the playoffs. Heck, one decent backup goalie would’ve pushed them ahead of Columbus.

Molson needs to stop hoarding his cash and open up the chequebook.

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