Habs4ever
Joined: Jan. 2017
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Serge Savard Sr. is retired. Serge Savard Jr. is a great guy but he is out of hockey and has been for about ten years. He married a great gal from PEI and settled there. Julien is under contract for 4 more yrs and Bergevin is under contract until 2022. This does NOT mean, Molson does not have the financial capacities to remove all of them, because he does. I am just laying out the lay of the land a little. Julien Brisebois as the GM would be an excellent move. He is very smart, hard worker, a student of people. Great guy. Joel Bouchard is all about him and his ego. I spent two hours on the phone with him negotiating a contract of a player and he controlled 90% of the conversation and spent most of the time speaking about himself. This was back in 2012 and I have not had any further contact with him, so maybe he has matured. Ducharme is a good Junior coach but needs seasoning. If you want French, I would go with Pascal Vincent. I have known him since 1997 and he is an excellent hockey mind. I also agree to get rid of current AHL coach. He is too old school, not much of a teacher or communicator. Several of his players from the Hamilton Bulldog days, did not like playing for him.