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stereax · 8 months ago
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habsfans98 · 2 years ago
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If anyone ever tells you that Bergevin was a good GM. Just show them this.
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erikkarlsson · 2 years ago
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i followed the habs throughout marc bergevin’s entire reign of terror and mike grier still might be the dumbest motherfucker i have ever seen
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oreilletendue · 2 months ago
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Tout recommencer, ou pas
Les équipes sportives ne peuvent pas toujours être au sommet du classement année après année. Il arrive des moments où elles doivent se transformer. Comment appeler cette transformation ? Prenons l’exemple des Canadiens de Montréal — c’est du hockey. On y a entendu plusieurs expressions au fil des ans. D’autres sont possibles. Reset (dans la langue de Marc Bergevin) ou réinitialisation (en…
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goalhofer · 11 months ago
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Where every player played during the 1994-95 NHL lockout: Tampa Bay
AHL: Ben Hankinson (Albany River Rats) DEL2: Petr Klíma (E.C. Wolfsburg) ECHL: Chris LiPuma (Nashville Knights) IHL (Russia): Alexander Semak (K.K. Salavat Yulaev) SEL: Mikael Andersson (Västra Frölunda Hockeyklubb) WHL: Jason Wiemer (Portland Winterhawks) Czech Extraliga: Roman Hamrlík (A.C. Z.P.S. Zlín) & Petr Klíma (A.C. Z.P.S. Zlín) IHL: Brent Gretzky (Atlanta Knights), Chris LiPuma (Atlanta Knights), Brantt Mhyres (Atlanta Knights) & Alexander Selivanov (Atlanta Knights/Chicago Wolves) Didn't Play: Jean-Claude Bergeron, Marc Bergevin, Brian Bradley, Marc Bureau, Shawn Chambers, Joseph Charron, Enrico Ciccone, Danton Cole, Cory Cross, Jim Cummins, Gerard Gallant, Chris Gratton, Adrien Plavsic, Rudy Poeschek, Daren Puppa, Denis Savard, Rich Sutter, John Tucker, Paul Ysebaert & Rob Zamuner
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himbeaux-on-ice · 2 years ago
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[shows up eight years late with spectacularly out of date fandom content] @tapedsleeves and @unfortunatehockeysideblog put me up to it. here’s some 2015-ish Habs as the buzzfeed “would you fuck your clone” meme. I am sorry.
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Hockey culture needs to change!
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zackcollins · 3 years ago
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Hey, Marc Bergevin? You know you done fucked up when Justin Trudeau of all people is criticising you for something you did. That dude would struggle to pour water out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel. So like. Well done, jackass.
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sanavoig · 3 years ago
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the statement literally begins saying they’ve selected a “promising hockey player”
fuck the habs
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habsforever · 3 years ago
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marc byegevin
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myfavouritethingsss · 4 years ago
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the red suit is back folks!!!
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habsfans98 · 4 years ago
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nhloveyou · 3 years ago
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“écoute, les détails de ces blessures, il y en a beaucoup”
“il y a beaucoup de- de douleur, ça prend beaucoup de temps le matin […] de préparer juste pour une pratique”
“comme vous savez, Shea … c’est pas une personne qui s’plaint, puis même manquer une pratique pour lui, ce n’est pas un option, alors”
“il a beaucoup de mileage, et y a … il a vraiment poussé son corps à la limite”
“alors le fait qu’il revienne l’année prochaine c’est vraiment pas une possibilité, probablement pour une carrière”
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(my terrible anglophone translation of marc bergevin media availability:
listen, the details of these injuries, there are a lot / he has a lot of pain, it takes a lot of time in the mornings […] to prepare just for a practice / like you know, Shea isn’t someone who complains, missing even one practice isn’t an option for him, so / he has a lot of mileage and he really pushed his body to the limit / so the fact that he’ll return next year really isn’t a possibility, maybe even for a career)
“it was hard for Shea, I mean it’s all he knows, it’s— you know, he’s a hockey player to the core, he’s been knowing that all his life and it’s really hard to realize he can no longer perform the way he’s expecting for him and his teammates and the pain he’s going through daily, so. We had an emotional, deep conversation and I mean, I have a lot of respect for Shea … what he’s done for the Montreal Canadiens throughout his career … he will be impossible to replace Shea Weber, I mean, what he brings to our team on and off the ice, we’ll try our best but I know deep down that we can never replace Shea Weber.”
“I personally wasn’t aware, and from what I’ve gathered after the information, I don’t think nobody was really aware. I think we’re all aware of the pain, and what he was going through every day but to that degree we didn’t know. Shea, as you all know, is a man of few words and sharing or complaining about his body is not one thing he does, so I was very surprised.”
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himbeaux-on-ice · 3 years ago
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NHL is actually just the Shitty Old Man recycling machine lmao
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justanotherhockey-blog · 3 years ago
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Finally.
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tonyhightowerv1 · 3 years ago
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The NHL, Boxing, & Ignoring The Right Thing To Do
Some days I wake up & pay attention to the news a bit, just to see what's happening.
The NHL Draft was last night, and I shouldn't have bothered with it, because I'm still angry at my Leafs for shitting the bed, again, in the playoffs (it's been 17 years since we last won a playoff round, and they've not won the Cup in my lifetime), but apparently the Montreal Canadiens, the most storied team in the sport, a team currently managed by Marc Bergevin, a guy who 10 years ago, when he ran player personnel for the Chicago Blackhawks, was somehow (it isn't clear) involved in hiring and/or protecting a video coach who sexually assaulted a bunch of teenaged players, the facts about which are only coming out now, and which look pretty damning for everyone involved, Marc Bergevin is now the General Manager of the Canadiens, and in the first round, they picked a guy who's been found guilty of sexual assault.
He apparently circulated pictures of a girl without her consent or knowledge while playing minor hockey in Sweden, and was found guilty under Sweden's assault laws. Now, he's expressed remorse, sure; he specifically asked the NHL to not draft him this year, so he could spend time and focus on improving himself and atoning for this in some way. And he's not some ultra hotshot phenom kid that people couldn't keep their hands off.
He's a guy, and even if you just think he made some kind of youthful mistake -- that would be a very bad take, which says a lot about you, not much of it good -- there's no need to reward him with getting picked, especially when he specifically asked not to.
But Bergevin, with the Blackhawks scandal hanging over him, chose this guy anyway. In the first round.
Not only that, the Canadiens had a statement about him pre-loaded & ready to go. Shareable graphic and everything.
https://twitter.com/CanadiensMTL/status/1418780212469411841
But no, instead, it's about this guy. Not even the girl he victimized. Him.
He tried to warn everyone off drafting him, which is to his credit, I guess. But Bergevin saw this kid, and decided, we need him in our organization. As is.
How good is he? Not that it matters in the slightest, but... he's a late 1st round defenseman. If he continues to develop, he'd basically make the show in 5 years or so. No one's projecting him to be an all-star or anything. There was no urgency; he was never going to make the cover of a Wheaties box or carry the flag at the Olympics. Even without the sexual assault conviction.
Marc Bergevin is a Hockey Guy, to the bitter end. But he's got a history -- and, apparently, a present -- of ignoring sexual abuse. There's no place in the sport, or in polite society, for that mindset. Certainly not now.
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So, all this made me think about boxing.
For most of the 20th century, boxing was the biggest sport in the world. Fights filled arenas and stadiums around the world. The Heavyweight Champion was treated like a Head Of State; they'd dine with royalty, speak at major world events, their fights would be recorded and shown in theaters (and run for months), and then when television appeared, fights would be shown in prime time, and draw ratings better than any other sport.
In the early 1970s, Muhammad Ali was known, famously, as the most famous human being alive. (And Neil Armstrong and Chairman Mao were, like, right there.)
But boxing was deeply corrupt, and many of its stars were more than merely flawed, and every once in a while, someone would die in the ring, and so they stopped showing the fights in prime time, and the champions didn't really add much to the global conversation, and the promoters were ignoring a lot of bad things their star fighters were doing, because they were more focused on getting their cut of the gate receipts than they were in maintaining a product that kept new fans coming through the turnstiles.
And sometime in the mid-1980s, boxing's popularity started to wane. After Ali & George Foreman retired, there was a bit of a charisma vacuum at the top of the sport (I mean, Holmes & Holyfield seem like relatively decent guys, but the Crown Prince of Monaco isn't inviting them to a state dinner anytime soon); the welterweights & middleweights (Hagler, Hearns, Leonard, Duran) were compelling in the ring, but aside from Sugar Ray Leonard, none of them were particularly interested in being terribly showy.
And then Mike Tyson showed up at the end of the decade, and everyone was excited again, until he raped someone & went to prison for it, and got a face tattoo, and the slow decline of the sport became clear to everyone, and that was pretty much it for boxing as a major global sporting concern.
Sure, it still exists, but it's nowhere near what it was. If you want to watch boxing somewhere, you need to find a stream from somewhere on the other side of the world. Fans of hand-to-hand combat sports have gravitated to UFC & MMA, sports that 40 years ago literally no one outside of Brazil or Thailand had ever heard of; fans of the spectacle of fighting, the weigh-ins & pre-fight braggadocio, the As The Buckle Turns, well, they'll always have WWE & the other Steroid Soaps.
Boxing is irrelevant now. They took the biggest sport in the world, and through neglect and ignoring the serious problems at its core, they just... pissed it away.
I'm not usually the kind of person to bemoan moral depravity. (I actually like GG Allin's music. I think it's kinda funny.) But sports are entertainment that uses actual people instead of actors. Like entertainment, you want a compelling story, or at least some kind of ethos, or a thought-shape, that keeps people interested and wanting to come back. You can be heroic, or villainous, but you don't want people to see your product and think, eww, yeah, no.
With actors or songwriters (or pro wrestlers), you can build a storyline out, write a script, point the lights in a certain direction. Each game lasts this long, it builds to a crescendo in this way, when our team scores, we shoot off this cannon, when Mariano Rivera enters from the bullpen we play Metallica; the crowd expects those beats, and they're all part of the drama build. But the players are actual people, and there is no script, so you want to start with a cast that people will want to cheer for (or against) without feeling awful.
If you deny people that basic pleasure for long enough, they'll start looking elsewhere.
I've been a serious hockey fan my whole life. It's been my favorite sport since I was old enough to have an opinion. I've gone in & out on baseball, and over the years, the NFL has lost me to their CTE issues & their tone-deaf billionaire owners treating their players like chattel. But hockey, despite having some of those issues, and my Toronto Maple Leafs, as historically disappointing as they have been, have stuck with me. And I with them.
But the way the Blackhawks have dealt with these abuse allegations, and Montreal choosing this convicted assaulter with their first choice (and there've been a couple of other events; last year, Arizona chose a guy who repeatedly & publicly harassed a disabled person of color, and who has never apologized; they later rescinded their pick), I'm starting to wonder if hockey, a sport that doesn't have the mass momentum of boxing or football in their heydays, has already seen its zenith.
And that thought just makes me so very sad.
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