Gainey’s Habs

The Montreal Canadiens General Manager Bob Gainey has amassed an interesting team over the past few years, here are some statistics for you Habs fans.

The Habs are:

• #1 in the league for 40 point men with 7 with 40 points or more.
• #1 power-play in the league.
• Alex Kovalev is #2 in the league for power-play goals with 16.
• #3 in the league in scoring with 201 goals.
• Andrei Markov is third in the league in points for a defenseman.
• They overcame a 5-0 deficit for the first time in team history.
• They have scored 5 goals in 11 games this season.
• Fourth in the league for conference wins.
• Fourth in the league for road wins.
• Seventh in the league for points.
• Ninth in the league in wins.
• Eleventh in the league in overtime wins.
• Eleventh in the league for division wins.

Bob Gainey signed Roman Hamerlik, acquired Kovalev, brought up from the minors, Tomas Plekanec, Michael Ryder, Chris Higgins, Carey Price, Ryan O’byrne, Mike Komisarek, Both Andrei, and, Sergei Kostitsyn, and now Jaroslav Halak, and Mikhail Grabovski, to mention a few.

With this in mind consider the stats I just gave you, and think of this, since Gainey’s arrival to the Habs, he has gotten rid of players who were no good in the room, over-priced players which couldn’t account for the money they were making, Gainey also made the locker room better by trading or not resigning players who formed a “click” which he didn’t want, he solidified the minors by drafting well, basically he remade the team from the bottom up, and fixed pretty much all the mistakes that were made previous to his arrival. The Habs farm team the Hamilton Bulldogs won the Calder Cup last year, and Gainey now has six players from that wining team with the big club.

If the fans can give Bob Gainey the full term of his contract in which he stated it was a five year plan, I believe that the Montreal Canadiens are headed in the right direction, and will be a good team for many years to come, now that everything is going in the right direction.

Not bad for a team which is getting younger every year.