Anthony Marcotte, natif de Victoriaville et animateur play by play du Rocket, a été invité au balado « Sans restriction », animé par Kevin Raphael. Il y a été révélé que la relation entre Danault et l’organisation des Canadiens s’est détériorée avant qu’il ne rejoigne l’UFA en juillet 2021.
Selon Marcotte, cela a commencé lors du processus d’arbitrage de son précédent contrat. Fondamentalement, la date d’arbitrage était fixée à la veille de son mariage. Bergevin le savait très bien et a traîné le processus le plus longtemps possible pour le coincer. Apparemment, Danault a signé le contrat à contrecœur et avec amertume pour ne pas avoir à passer par l’arbitrage, encore une fois un jour avant son mariage.
L’intégralité du podcast est à retrouver ici https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95umc0qR-CY
Une autre façon dont Bergevin était un terrible directeur général. Cela met également en lumière pourquoi Kent Hughes s’efforce si fort de traiter chaque joueur avec intégrité et respect. L’organisation a une réputation à nettoyer.
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If you want loyalty get a dog
Phil filed for the salary arbitration not the team. No sympathy for it being the day before his wedding he chose the process knowing thats when the hearing dates are.
So then why did Danault sign in LA where Bergevin was already working?
Not disputing Marcotte’s claim here, but it seems weird that he’d blame the organization for this, then sign with the guy who was the face of the organization.
Edit: Danault was there first. My bad.
Sorry but Bergie took a step too far with this one. Sure phil files and wanted more money, but purposely using someone wedding as a negotiating tactic is disgusting.
Danault deserved better
This for me was the biggest loss after our cinderalla cup run aside from the death of Price’s and Weber’s careers. Although the production doesn’t merit the contract he thought he deserved, his impact on the pk was undeniable. We had the best PK of that cup run heading into the stanley cup finals.
I thought we’d get more pizza celebrations from Phil and Cole in future playoffs. Hopefully the sub invents another tradition for the new guys for when we’re back in the playoffs.
All Bergevin would have to do is flex, and I’d immediately sign on the dotted line
Feeling bad for millionaires is such a weird take … dude had to sit in a meeting the day before his wedding? My heart bleeds 🤨
For me it was a major loss, much bigger than people think. Factor in the rushed aquisition of the corpse of Dvorak and it’s a terrible deal (we lost a 1st and a 3rd to boot).
Swap Danault for Dvorak and with the addition of Laine I’d say the habs have arguably a playoff roster.
However, with Danault in the lineup (esp with Dach injuries) and we don’t get Reinbacher & definitely not Demidov.
Bergie is a dick but let’s not forget how bad he was prior to the playoffs that year. I don’t think we would have paid him what he wanted anyways
I love the fact that Danault and Bergevin were reunited in LA
This isn’t new it was discussed before.
Bergevin was pretty hard ass when it came to negotiating. And he probably thought Danault would take a home boy discount. But the thing is, people forget how most here and everywhere thought Danault was asking too much. And most agreed LA overpaid when he signed there.
Then we got Dvorak and had an absolute shit season and people started thinking in hindsight Danault should have been signed.
I think we should have signed him btw. But just reminding people it was far from unanimous here at the time. It’s always the case with UFA. If Laine comes back healthy and scored 40 next season, some here will say he is worth 10 or 12 M, and other will way it’s way too much and we should let him go.
That’s the thing, i’m sure it’s kultiple reasons that made Danault want to leave.
1 – Marc Bergevin being a douche
2 – Not being able to play a little offensively
3 – Dominique Ducharme also being a nutjob
4 – the loss of leadership when price and weber left.
Whatever you’re going to add, it’s also probably true.
Example 2478 why Bergevin is the most damaging GM we ever had. He set the franchise back so far with all his bullshit; it’s a miracle how much of a cleanup Kent has managed to pull off so far.
berg was too emotional and let his feelings get in the way of a lot of contract negotiations. imagine if he just gave danault what he was worth, then we wouldn’t be stuck w dvorak
He was too much a business man and not enough of a man of the people
Bergervin was a total and complete asshole. The peak of that being, when he said on camera, « if you want a loyalty get a dog ». After Markov and Radulov walked.
Further proof how much of a loser MB was. The fact he’s going to walk Scot free of the PLD fiasco in LA is amazing
Even if half of the shit we’ve heard about Bergevin is true, he’s still a massive piece of shit.
Bergevin was a win the battle, lose the war kinda guy.
That’s a real d-bag move .. I get it that its business, but wow….
He is one of my favourite Habs of all time and I will never forgive Bergevin for letting him walk only to reunite with him on the LAK. I really thought he would be a Hab for life and I miss him on the ice.
This reminds me of Vince McMahon firing cm punk on his wedding day with a bunch of illegal violations they knew he would be too busy to fight in court because it was yknow, his wedding day
Just a scumbag move strictly for the sake of being a dick. Bergevin never cared for the people that wore the jersey
Its why I’ve always hated him
Common Bargainbin L
seems like a shitty thing to do, but people praise the players when they flex their muscles in negotiation- situations like Gauthier and Fox, or even Swayman- seems like acceptance of these type of hardball ‘im going to do whats best for me’ tactics should cut both ways.
id rather see it be the opposite where players/agents and teams are more flexible and amicable but its just not always going to happen like that in this type of business where the salaries are so important for both sides.
Wait, didn’t Danault sign in LA as a free agent? Honest question, I don’t remember clearly