On Monday, May 1, 2017 at 2:28:25 PM UTC-7, Mike wrote:
> Oh please let it be Florida if not Montreal. With the rumour that
> Therrien is in line to get that job, the joy of watching Kovalchuk sit
> his ass on the bench because he didn't play the right way would be
> delightful.
He is? I hadn't heard that rumor.
I find it hard to believe that MT will get another NHL head coaching job. Pat Hickey employs a nice touch of understatement in this report:
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Dale Tallon, who has re-emerged as the boss of all things hockey with the dysfunctional franchise, has offered some guidelines on what he’s looking for and Therrien doesn’t fit the description.
“We’re looking for a creative guy, a contemporary guy that is a good communicator, a good teacher,” Tallon told Harvey Fialkov of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. “(Someone) that can handle the younger player today and that can understand that they still have to be coached and mentored and taught, yet still have that passion to win.”
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Link:
http://montrealgazette.com/sports/hockey/nhl/montreal-canadiens/former-habs-coach-michel-therrien-unlikely-to-land-panthers-job
Hickey goes on to write that a leading contender is Montreal native and former Hab Jim Montgomery. I wonder if he speaks French? It would be nice if, for a change, some other franchise gave a potential Habs coach his first job. And just in general, if the Habs are determined/resigned to fishing in that smaller pond of French-speaking candidates, might as well have it be a better-stocked one.
Jim