After the Montreal Canadiens finished dead last in the Eastern Conference this year it was apparent that changes had to be made. It started with the firing of GM Pierre Gauthier and now several months later the last piece to the Habs management has been added in new coach Michel Therrien. Well when I say new coach I mean new old coach as Therrien was the coach of the Canadiens back in the early 2000s.
Up until now I was quit pleased with Montreal's management with they're choice to make Marc Bergevin the new GM and naming Rick Dudley as the assistant GM. They both seemed like solid well thought out decisions made by owner Geoff Molson and what was left of the management. The decision to make Therrien the new head coach of Montreal doesn't strike me as a good one. I can't understand why a team would want a coach who they've not only fired once before but a coach who has a similar defencive style of coaching to Jacques Martin who was the Habs previous coach. On top of that I've also seen interviews with players saying he is literally the worst coach they've ever played for. That being said that was dearly a decade ago and I suppose Bergevin and company must know what they're doing as Montreal was in the process of selecting a new coach for over a month. So all I can hope for is that Bergevin knows what he's doing and Therrien really is ready to coach a Montreal team this time around, god knows he'll have enough pressure on him. I wish the best of luck to the Habs new management team and for a much stronger year than last year.
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