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There has been a lot of talk in the locker room during the Canadiens’ seven-game losing streak about players having to look themselves in the mirror.

“It’s our job to play 60 minutes, there’s no excuse,” the Canadiens’ Brendan Gallagher said after Friday night’s 6-2 loss to the Ducks in Anaheim.

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“It’s on us as a team, it’s on us as leaders,” he added. “If we’re going to start winning games, I think we need to start to look ourselves in the mirror and understand that it’s not just going to happen for us.”

The man who needs to spend the most time looking in the mirror right now — with the Canadiens off to a 1-6-1 start to the season — is general manager Marc Bergevin. And not to check out his fancy clothes.

Six years into his five-year plan, this is Bergevin’s team from top to bottom because he has had more than enough time to keep the players he wanted and get rid of the ones he didn’t — and he has already fired one coach. Right now, this is a broken team.