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Originally Posted by habernac

After sleeping on it, I still hate this trade. Therrien's ego won over Subban's. If you can't handle millionaires who have egos, perhaps you shouldn't coach in the NHL.

Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce

Bergevin too, I think. Not just Therrien.
There's a pall over the city today. A day of mourning.

Also, inexplicably, Geoff Molson. And Montreal media is calling it the worst trade since Pat Roy.

http://montrealgazette.com/sports/br...trick-roy-deal

It’s a bad deal for the Habs and a great one for the Preds. And Subban is being run out of town by Bergevin and Therrien, who never appeared to like him. They like grunts. Therrien has said he has a blue-collar team, which is just one more piece of evidence that he’s delusional. He has a skill team, but all he sees are lunch-bucket-carrying lunkheads. Pathetic.

Bergevin is a former journeyman defenceman and I believe he always resented Subban. He never liked this guy who was a vedette from the moment he arrived. Bergevin didn’t like the star power, the gangster garb, the headline-stealing moves like giving a huge pledge to the Montreal Children’s Hospital.

I understand why Bergevin and Therrien seem to dislike Subban. He’s everything they’re not. What surprises me most in all this is that Molson signed off on the deal. Molson, after all, was the guy who reportedly stepped in when Bergevin mismanaged the negotiations with Subban in the summer of 2014 and went to arbitration. Molson reportedly ordered his GM to sign Subban and I thought that proved Molson understood what Subban brought to the organization, both on and off the ice.

He is the most exciting player to don a Habs jersey since Guy Lafleur and if you don’t believe that, you weren’t watching that epic seven-game victory over the Boston Bruins in the 2014 playoffs when Subban literally lifted the team on his shoulders and willed a win out of them.

But he’s also so much more than a hockey player. He’s an incredibly charismatic young man who provides intelligent articulate answers to journalists’ questions, has been known to stop and jump out of his car to join a road-hockey game in Lower Westmount and has shown remarkable class in all the years that Habs management has treated him in shoddy fashion.

But the Canadiens have always had a problem with larger-than-life figures, with anyone who might be bigger than the Church-like Habs organization. Lafleur, Chelios, Roy. It’s a little depressing.

And another one bites the dust.

Go Bruins!