With the Canadian doing very well these days, we greatly salute the work of the current management of the team. After all, seeing guys like Lane Hutson, Patrik Laine and Alexandre Carrier being important pieces of this comeback gets those who brought them to town recognized.
And those people are Kent Hughes and Jeff Gorton.
That said, when we look at the team as a whole, there is still one observation that stands out: many of the players who are regulars are players who were acquired during the Marc Bergevin era. Nick Suzuki, Cole Caufield, Kaiden Guhle, Samuel Montembeault, Jake Evans and so on: they are all important pieces of this team.
This therefore means that we must highlight the contribution of the former CEO to this current edition… and Réjean Tremblay did precisely this in a text for Punching Grace.
Now, what is interesting is to see that Paul Wilson, who was a trusted man of Bergevin, shared this text today.
We know that on occasion, Wilson comments on what’s happening with the Canadiens… and often, it’s when the news in question has a link to personnel movements that took place during the Bergevin era (and, doing so, when he was also in town). Last October, we notably saw him highlight Logan Mailloux’s first goal in the NHL.
On the other hand, one fact remains: even if Bergevin did not only hit home runs (especially at the end of the run), he still left a rather solid base for Gorton and Hughes to continue their work.
Both managements have, in their own way, played a role in the current edition of the team. Jakub Dobes was drafted by Bergevin, but Hughes and Gorton had the flair to recall him at the right time to instill a dose of confidence in the group.
-In the coming years, some of the pieces acquired by Bergevin (Christian Dvorak, for example) will give way to pieces acquired by Hughes and Gorton (Ivan Demidov, for example). That said, there are certain legacies from the Bergevin era that are not about to leave (Suzuki, Caufield, Guhle, etc.).
It must be emphasized… and it is interesting to see that Paul Wilson, who is no longer involved in the world of hockey at all, wanted to defend the work of his former boss. The two are obviously still very close.
In burst
– Nice try.
– No team has spent more time short of a man than CH this season. [NHL.com]
– Bogdan Konyushkov, the first to spend 30 minutes on the ice in a single game this season in the KHL.
– Shea Theodore knows all a season.
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