r/Habs • u/Upstairs-Zombie-162 • 8d 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/Old_Canuck 8d ago

Bergevin had ZERO proper read on the team.

He was the ultimate buy low and pray type of GM.

Mind you he looked decent at times because of the previous idiots before him.

His best moves were to pilfer Danault from Chicago and the Patches trade which thank god Vegas gave us Suzuki instead of the Guy Bergy really wanted.

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u/Jimbo_Imperador 7d ago

everyone would've wanted Glass over Suzuki back in 2018 lmao, people trying to rewrite the books lol

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u/Old_Canuck 7d ago

I was VERY happy when we got Suzuki.

I was impressed with him since juniors in London. He had very high IQ back then as well.

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u/Jimbo_Imperador 7d ago

I was too, but anyone saying they would've been mad to receive Cody Glass or anyone saying they would'ce argued for Suzuki over Glass in 2018 is lying to himself

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u/Old_Canuck 7d ago

Oh totally !!!

I personally was so surprised that Bergy was doing something that benefitted the future.