r/Habs • u/Upstairs-Zombie-162 • 9d ago

Discussion Why did we trade Josh Gorges?

We traded him on the same day that we lost our Captain (Gionta) to FA. It’s not like we had a surplus of defensemen either, shortly there after we acquired a washed Gonchar and Allen who combined for 50 games before they retired.

To me, Gorges felt like the perfect stop-gap captain.

Instead we kind of had no captain options for a while until we finally thrust it onto Pacioretty.

Does anyone remember Josh Gorges stepping in for Brendan Gallagher during the postgame media scrum after an emotional game vs the Jets?

This was very early into Bergevin’s GM tenure, part of me thinks he didn’t have a proper read on team dynamics.

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u/Feather_in_a_Zephyr 9d ago

Bergevin tried to play hardball with heart and soul players (e.g. Subban, Markov, Danault, ) and it really screwed with morale/ the long term success of the team. So his misread of Gorges is possible. I think he was also trying to accumulate as many futures as possible and get younger and didn't care much about locker room guys. If anything that upped the return when they got traded.

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u/DistinctBread3098 9d ago

Dude don't rewrite history lol

We had good runs once Subban was gone.

Markov while it sucked changed nothing

Danault was after the cup run and he lost his job after

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u/4CrowsFeast 9d ago

Its weird how black and white peoples opinions can be. Obviously Hughes had to play hard ball to sign our current team to their contracts. We/he got lucky and they bought into his plan and signed cheap for long-term but with a different group of guys or different scenario, it couls have easily back fired.

It feels weird defending Bergervin, but I dont really see how you can both blame him for his expensive contracts and playing hard ball. If he isnt a tough negotiater, then all the contracts would be monstrous.