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« on: April 06, 2020, 01:21:16 PM »
(Je m' excuse car cet article de Sportsnet n'est qu' en anglais)
Je sais que nous analysons surtout le travail de MB mais voici ce que Paul Byron pense de lui: (Source: Sportsnet)
To me, he’s a different GM than any GM I’ve ever had before. Or maybe my relationship is just different with him. I’ve always been a young player on other teams, kind of afraid to go into a GM’s office or to a GM who’s always been more of a corporate guy, if you know what I mean. Whereas Berge was a player, so he understands the game and understands you.
He’s a great person. He’s personable. You can go talk to him. I think he’s incredibly intelligent. The conversations I’ve had with him just about hockey — he just thinks the game differently than other people. And the vibe he gives off just being around the rink… he does feel like he’s part of the team, like he’s part of the guys and of everybody who wants to win (and not like he’s above it). It’s just different than what I’ve ever experienced before.
Et ce qu' il pense de CJ:
SN: What kind of coach is Claude?
PB: He is kind of a mix of all the coaches I’ve had. He’s a great person. I think he talks very well. He communicates very well. He’s much more of a motivator through speeches and talking. And, tactically, he wants us all to play a certain way.
We go through a lot of the system stuff early in the year and he wants to make sure that everyone down in Laval is playing the same system so when they get called up it’s a seamless transition. And I think down in the AHL the guys have done an amazing job of that.
Playing for Claude — I enjoy playing for Claude, honestly. He’s a great coach, a great teacher, and he talks to you. If something’s on his mind, he’s not just yelling at you and berating you. I find it’s much more talking one-on-one with you. And I never really had that with coaches before. It was more just getting yelled at and kind of being afraid of the coach. But with Claude, you want to work for him and want to do things for him because you know he’s a good person.
SN: Given the leadership group you guys have, and given Claude as you just described him, how do you explain how the negative trends in the team’s game this year persisted without being fixed?
PB: I think there was a certain level of maturity (missing). It goes with looking yourself in the mirror and saying, ‘How many more times am I going to make the same mistake before I rectify the mistake?’
