Why are CanadiensMTL on the road to missing the playoffs for a third straight season? AndrewBerkshire breaks down all the factors ⤵️
a bad team? It’s a question that has to be asked after a promising start to the season has slipped away and the Canadiens are now on the road to missing the playoffs for a third straight season.
A 96-point season in 2018-19 would indicate that they’re not terrible, as would the strong play when the whole roster was healthy earlier in the campaign, but the Canadiens franchise has missed the playoffs in three straight seasons just twice before in their 110-year history: from 1919-1920 to 1921-22 and from 1998-99 to 2000-01.
To add more misery to the equation, the Canadiens are on track to miss the playoffs in three of the last four seasons, something that has only ever happened once before, from 1998-99 to 2002-03. The coach who was in charge when that run of poor teams ended was none other than Claude Julien, the current Habs bench boss.
The circumstances then were much different than now, as the Canadiens were attempting to dig themselves out of a deep rut of mismanagement over the previous decade that saw the team lose high-quality players like Chris Chelios, Claude Lemieux, Patrick Roy, John LeClair, Eric Desjardins, Guy Carbonneau, Mark Recchi, Pierre Turgeon, Mathieu Schneider and more in trades for little-to-no return. The glut of talent given up was monumental.
That isn’t the situation today. Outside of a couple of deals, general manager Marc Bergevin has done a relatively decent job making trades, but in year eight of his tenure as the guy in charge, who are these Canadiens that Bergevin has built?
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