I think you guys could use a coach like Claude Julien, Michel Therrien, Alain Vigneault, or Jacques Martin.

Yup... I think Randy Cunneyworth is looking for a job also...


Seriously tho, I think Ducharme will not be able to turn the ship around for this season and Bergevin will be out by this summer.

Patrick Roy would be nice, but time will tell...

Yea but Cunneyworth isn't french.

I seriously think speaking french should not be a criteria to be a head coach in MTL... And I am a french speaking quebecois.

Experience and skills are way more important than where you were born or what language you can speak, that's just logic.

ah yes my friend but the emotions of Vive le Quebec libre, is entirely based on emotion and not logic. So it will be a very tough sell to les "gens du pays"!

Yeah, I completely agree with you although I don't speak french or live in Quebec so I don't really know how much it may mean to some fans. But yeah I think the Habs really need to move past the French speaking requirement as you just said. The glory days of having lots of French speaking players and coaches are over and I don't think hiring Michel Therrien a third time (or any other french coach) would be the best move for the Habs. The Habs really need to move past the French speaking thing, it's holding them back.

You don't need to sell it if the new coach makes the team win more games.

''Vive le Quebec libre'' as you say was in 1967, I think as the older generations go off into the sunset, the emotions related to language for a hockey team coach will be gone with them...

Yup. Not saying that there aren't any talented coach or players who can speak french obviously, but it's just too small of a pool to choose from.

Although I agree with you, go read some of the comments on RDS. I cannot write in French but I can read it very well. Almost everyday there is a comment about language. It is heavy to always be dealing with that. I knew in 1987 I was leaving Quebec not because I hated the place but because I was tired of the same arguments all the time. In 34 years of living outside of Quebec, my ears have only heard it once that they did not like the people in Quebec, only once in 34 years. Now I am not blind, I know there is currently many people in Alberta that are angry at the pipeline being cancelled and I am reading online that it is perceived as Quebecs fault. But when I speak with my extended family members still living in Quebec, they still complain about the language stuff. Back to hockey, I believe the head coach will be french or bilingual. But there are plenty of French speaking coaches, so for me this is a mute point.

I am going over the 6 goals. 1 empty net, so 5 goals. Of the 5, 3 of them are players picking up the wrong players in their defensive assignments. Price was weak on the 4th goal. But he is getting absolutely slammed by the comments already. If those players pick up the right players, you have no need for the extra attacker and the game finishes 3 to 2 for MTL.

Lol, RDS comment sections do not represent the opinion of the majority.

I definitely agree that the language argument gets heavy, and I do have empathy for those it can affect negatively. Im not gonna go into politics discussions here, since this is a hockey forum but to put it simply Quebec province has always been different than the rest of Canada (as the saying goes: "...except in Quebec"), both culturally and in spirit.

Price has and will always be slammed if he can't make a game saving save or lets in more than 3 goals repeatedly in a short span of games (even though the defense in front of him don't do well). He's getting paid 10.5 M$ to do just that.