The guy is a journeyman for freaking sakes!
Enough of the purple prose and love poems to this average 'nice guy' defenseman. The San Jose` Sharks did not get robbed when the Canadiens shipped (the better) Craig Rivet off to the west coast for this smallish (now) NHLPA rep favourite of the media (he likes to talk).
Stop waxing poetic about his average talent, this #4 defenseman is yes, a valuable guy, a good team player, decent in the room (in that he doesn't cause any trouble and does what is asked of him).
But for crissakes stop acting like he is the Second Coming. He ain't Larry Robinson or Guy Lapointe or Serge Savard. He ain't even Peter Svoboda never mind Chelios, Ludwig or Desjardins.
I don't blame Gorges for the silliness, he does his job the best he can, always shows up.
But his limited talent and small size are not the stuff of an all star and let's please try and remember the greats who have patrolled the Canadiens blue line. Gorges is not in that category. Sniff the smelling salts.
If there is a potential star back there, we know who he is. And his name ain't Josh Gorges. Somebody must be drunk or demented. But that's what's enabled the Canadiens to keep selling out the last 30 years with too little on ice talent and too little on ice effort.
There has yet to be a response to the Chara assault on Pacioretty. And Julien's goon hockey. Playing nice like Gorges doesn't cut it for me.
Even a Ted Harris, Gilles Lupien or Dave Manson would be nice right now.
A heatlhy MaxPac and Eric Cole will help but like Liam McGuire said we need a cross between Fergy and Bob Probert. Someone to beat the hell out of Luchicken and Chara. Well okay I said the latter.
Tragic that Gandhi Gauthier and Cuddles Martin can't understand. Pathetic that some self-professed 'experts' put so much time into singing the praises of such average players as Gorges.
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