BigTed3 Posted April 17, 2018 Report Share Posted April 17, 2018 Discuss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jennifer_rocket Posted April 17, 2018 Report Share Posted April 17, 2018 Well... FINALLY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maas_art Posted April 17, 2018 Report Share Posted April 17, 2018 About time. I feel like he's the scapegoat though. It would be like trading Froese and saying that he was the root of our scoring woes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jennifer_rocket Posted April 17, 2018 Report Share Posted April 17, 2018 1 minute ago, maas_art said: About time. I feel like he's the scapegoat though. It would be like trading Froese and saying that he was the root of our scoring woes. The TSN.ca article says Bergevin consulted with Carriere before making the decision. THE NEW AGE OF TRANSPARENCY IS HERE!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jennifer_rocket Posted April 17, 2018 Report Share Posted April 17, 2018 On another website one of the comments read, "Bring on JJ." Could you imagine? I think I would cry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H_T_L Posted April 17, 2018 Report Share Posted April 17, 2018 Put in a position to fail by a GM in over his head. Recipe for disaster and we're all witnessing it now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinot-2 Posted April 17, 2018 Report Share Posted April 17, 2018 YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinot-2 Posted April 17, 2018 Report Share Posted April 17, 2018 I wonder if there's anyone in a currently successfull AHL team that is bilingual, who might want to come here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff33 Posted April 17, 2018 Report Share Posted April 17, 2018 52 minutes ago, maas_art said: About time. I feel like he's the scapegoat though. It would be like trading Froese and saying that he was the root of our scoring woes. maybe he had a contagious bad attitude? how else would you explain it!?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noob616 Posted April 17, 2018 Report Share Posted April 17, 2018 Inb4 Michel Therrien hired Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff33 Posted April 17, 2018 Report Share Posted April 17, 2018 Just now, kinot-2 said: I wonder if there's anyone in a currently successfull AHL team that is bilingual, who might want to come here. scuttlebutt is ducharme who coached the wjc team Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maas_art Posted April 17, 2018 Report Share Posted April 17, 2018 17 minutes ago, jeff33 said: scuttlebutt is ducharme who coached the wjc team On paper Ducharme looks like a great hire but none of it will matter if the top of the management chain doesnt change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTed3 Posted April 18, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2018 Have heard Ducharme as a favorite in many media circles. Have heard Joel Bouchard as possible coach or GM in Laval. Have heard Pascal Vincent. I'll throw out a couple of other names: - Benoit Groulx... he's a guy who was rumored to be in the mix when the Habs hired Lefebvre. He's a 3-time champion head coach of the Olympiques who had a lot of success in the Q. He's now having a ton of success in the AHL with the Syracuse Crunch, reached the finals last year and has his team dominating this year as well. Not sure what his contract status is, but he'd be a guy who would be a great fit as an AHL coach or as an assistant in the big leagues, both with an eye to being an eventual potential replacement for Julien. - Eric Veilleux's a guy who used to coach in the Q. Was also a guy who was highly thought of a couple of years ago for AHL jobs, ended up taking the job in San Antonio, where his teams have been average. Probably hasn't met enough expectations to earn a hire here, but I know his name was out there before. - Andre Tourigny is a 3rd former Q coach who has some experience as an assistant at the NHL level with Colorado and Ottawa and is now back in the Q with Halifax. Don't think he was highly-regarded in Ottawa though, FWIW. - Yannick Jean, Gilles Bouchard, and Phillipe Boucher would be other experienced coaches from the Q whose names could surface too. Personally, I'd love to see them not only revamp the AHL staff but the NHL one too. I think Ducharme could be an interesting hire as AHL head coach, with Groulx joining Julien as an assistant in Montreal and maybe Joel Bouchard replacing Carriere as AHL GM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
habs1952 Posted April 18, 2018 Report Share Posted April 18, 2018 ^^^I guess we need to hire a French speaking coach instead of the best coach available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTed3 Posted April 18, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2018 18 minutes ago, habs1952 said: ^^^I guess we need to hire a French speaking coach instead of the best coach available. You know the team's policy: must play politics before trying to win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maas_art Posted April 18, 2018 Report Share Posted April 18, 2018 1 hour ago, BigTed3 said: Have heard Ducharme as a favorite in many media circles. Have heard Joel Bouchard as possible coach or GM in Laval. Have heard Pascal Vincent. I'll throw out a couple of other names: - Benoit Groulx... he's a guy who was rumored to be in the mix when the Habs hired Lefebvre. He's a 3-time champion head coach of the Olympiques who had a lot of success in the Q. He's now having a ton of success in the AHL with the Syracuse Crunch, reached the finals last year and has his team dominating this year as well. Not sure what his contract status is, but he'd be a guy who would be a great fit as an AHL coach or as an assistant in the big leagues, both with an eye to being an eventual potential replacement for Julien. - Eric Veilleux's a guy who used to coach in the Q. Was also a guy who was highly thought of a couple of years ago for AHL jobs, ended up taking the job in San Antonio, where his teams have been average. Probably hasn't met enough expectations to earn a hire here, but I know his name was out there before. - Andre Tourigny is a 3rd former Q coach who has some experience as an assistant at the NHL level with Colorado and Ottawa and is now back in the Q with Halifax. Don't think he was highly-regarded in Ottawa though, FWIW. - Yannick Jean, Gilles Bouchard, and Phillipe Boucher would be other experienced coaches from the Q whose names could surface too. Personally, I'd love to see them not only revamp the AHL staff but the NHL one too. I think Ducharme could be an interesting hire as AHL head coach, with Groulx joining Julien as an assistant in Montreal and maybe Joel Bouchard replacing Carriere as AHL GM. Sure but how good are any of these guys in the foxhole? and... will they bring cake? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme-1 Posted April 18, 2018 Report Share Posted April 18, 2018 9 hours ago, H_T_L said: Put in a position to fail by a GM in over his head. Recipe for disaster and we're all witnessing it now. Maybe, but given the fram team was consistently terrible and graduated basically no impact NHLers, how good of a coach could he have been? Maybe our drafting got worse, but Timmins at least used to be quite good at drafting guys who would go on to be useful NHLers, even in lower rounds. I feel like either our drafting has gotten significantly worse, or he just isn't a very good development coach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regis22 Posted April 18, 2018 Report Share Posted April 18, 2018 MB should be replaced also. His record as GM is only as good as CP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BizarreReverend Posted April 19, 2018 Report Share Posted April 19, 2018 Well, one down. A few more to go.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HabsRuleForever Posted April 19, 2018 Report Share Posted April 19, 2018 On 2018-04-17 at 1:26 PM, Noob616 said: Inb4 Michel Therrien hired OMG that would be awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habs=stanleycup Posted April 20, 2018 Report Share Posted April 20, 2018 The sad thing is that MB said that Lefebreve is a really good coach while firing him. Pathetic and sickening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme-1 Posted April 21, 2018 Report Share Posted April 21, 2018 3 hours ago, Habs=stanleycup said: The sad thing is that MB said that Lefebreve is a really good coach while firing him. Pathetic and sickening. To be fair, if Molson fires Bergevin I'll be perfectly happy to ignore the customary "he was a really good GM". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habs=stanleycup Posted April 21, 2018 Report Share Posted April 21, 2018 20 minutes ago, Graeme-1 said: To be fair, if Molson fires Bergevin I'll be perfectly happy to ignore the customary "he was a really good GM". Unfortunately Molson will NEVER fire Bergevin. They are foxhole buddies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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