Rejoint: mai 2015
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Assuming you are right "Berg will lose his job if he doesn't assemble what could be a contender on paper." then Molson knows this as well and won't let him just make a bunch of willy nilly trades to save his job.
A GM still has to explain himself and his reasoning to his boss. If we the fans can see the writing on the wall, so can he. I think MB is a capable "retool'er" so letting him try to correctly retool out of the Habs current situation is fine but if MB went into Molsons office and said "Geoff, we need to go all in! I suggest we trade our 1st rounder for Kreider and trade Caulfield for Barrie asap!", I'm pretty sure Molson would tell him no and that he no longer has confidence in him as GM. Essentially letting him step down as GM or he'll be fired.
If MB was allowed to go all in, he would have done it a while ago. The time for "all in" has now passed. It would be like LAK deciding to go all in now of all times.....it simply doesn't make sense.