from Brendan Kelly of the Montreal Gazette,

There is no plan, Stan.

For weeks, Geoff Molson and Marc Bergevin have been talking about this famous plan that will somehow turn around the fortunes of the Montreal Canadiens. With the draft and the free-agency sweepstakes long gone, it’s now clear and transparent that in fact there never was any plan.

In Management 101 — a first-year course, by the way, that no one in the Bell Centre executive suites appears to have taken — we call this “managing via improvisation” and it’s not a good thing. Sadly it could be argued that it’s precisely that lack of planning that’s marred a succession of general managers from Réjean Houle on through to the bizarre tag team of Bob Gainey and Pierre Gauthier and now Bergevin.

If you disagree, explain to me Bergevin’s plan? At one point, many of us figured it was a two-word plan — John Tavares. But that was always a pipe dream only believed by those whose favourite Weezer song is Hash Pipe. I mean seriously! The most coveted free agent in modern National Hockey League history is going to come to Montreal? I don’t think so. Because Bergevin played hockey with Tavares’ agent when they were kids? Laughable.

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