Goal Line Report
Is Gainey Composing a Masterpiece?
by Patrick Hoffman on 07/08/09 at 03:00 PM ET
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From Mick Kern at NHL Home Ice:
While listening to Wilco’s latest offering on the way to work today, the immediate lukewarm reaction to it reminded me of much of the hockey world’s reaction to what GM Bob Gainey has done with the Montreal Canadiens in the past two weeks.
After watching his team take a nosedive after the All-Star break, firing head coach Guy Carbonneau, taking over behind the bench himself, and getting swept by the Boston Bruins in the first round of the playoffs (all this during the overblown 100th anniversary celebrations), Gainey is understandably under considerable pressure to improve the lot of the Canadiens for the 2009-10 campaign.
He’s cast his lot with underachieving goaltender Carey Price, which might, in part, explain why Jacques Martin was brought aboard as head coach. Gainey was facing a summer of significant roster turnover, as a number of players were set to become unrestricted free agents on July 1st.
While many in the media, and fans as well, were curious as to how Gainey would manage this off-season, most pointed to the fact that the Habs would benefit from having a lot of cap room to play around with. Surely they’d be able to land the big stud centre the team has lacked since…since…Pete Mahovlich???
What about the Vinnie rumours? How about Gaborik or Hossa? Should they keep Komisarek or go a different direction? And what about Kovalev and Kaptain Koivu?
Click here for more. It’ll certainly be interesting to see how the small trio of forwards in Brian Gionta, Scotty Gomez and Mike Cammalleri do in a physically tough Northeast Division. What are your thoughts/predictions thus far?
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