I think Marc Bergevin is doing a very good job as GM of the Montreal Canadiens.



There, I said it.



And I say it as somebody who thought he should have been fired following the disaster of a season in 2017-18 that began when he lost Alexander Radulov and Andrei Markov and attempted to replace them with, among others, Ales Hemsky, Karl Alzner, David Schlemko and Mark Streit before missing the playoffs. (Oh yeah, there was that Mikhail Sergachev for Jonathan Drouin trade too.)



It wasn’t just on the ice where Bergevin appeared to have lost his way. His public pronouncements after failing to re-sign his two Russian vets (“If you want loyalty buy a dog”…”Radu is 32 and Jo (Drouin) is 22 so I think we came out ahead”…“Take it or leave it” on his offer to Markov) were hardly reassuring in building confidence in what had rapidly become a mostly disillusioned fan base.



The season before was the Canadiens...