Speculation: Brian Wilde just said assistants and Lefebvre gone
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just as long as no AHL coaches get a promotion..lol
It was a weird deal for Julien,coming here and not picking his own assts....
sampollock
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Noticed a few times this season, Julien and Kirk had some tension between them discussing things on the bench....
Grate n Colorful Oz
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My bet is that Timmins didnt get free reign under Bergevin, considering the latter's propensity at puffin his chest when it comes to his own drafting.
Laurentide
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As an associate coach rather than an assistant coach like JJ for example, Muller doesn't report to Julien. Both he and Julien have direct access to Bergevin. The assistants don't. They have to go through Julien to get to Bergevin. Julien can't fire Muller but he could probably hand any assistant their walking papers after a short conversation with Bergy.
Kirk Muller being that he doesn’t speak French fluently was never a threat to replace Therrien or Julien as head coach.
Laurentide
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That's what happens when you decide to pal around with the likes of McCagg. Suddenly you discover that you have no friends anymore.
yup, was a few times when the camera focused in on Julien and Muller talking ,they was making some pretty weird face at each other(disagreeing )....you could tell they wasn't on the same page..
With the rising salaries in the coaching ranks, it makes it much harder to just fire the coaches....,I mean when you are paying a coach 1 million a year, you can fire him pretty easy...but when you start paying $5-6-7-$8 million a years x 4 -5 -6 years, it not so easy to just fire the coach anymore...that will be a new thing going forward, when you hire a coach you're pretty much stuck with him .....not like the old days when they made much less $$$ and fire them anytime..Mike Babcock and Claude Julien have set the new bar for salary...really changed how coaches are treated....
lo striver
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hm, brown-nosing did not help him to get a job and now he is trying to be controversial.
Vachon23
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even if he was speaking french, I don't think we would be a candidate, he is a great assistant but I don't think he is a HC
Surely, Kirk Muller deserves another chance after his initial flop with the Hurricanes.
admiralcadillac
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Speaking french fluently isn't the criteria. The criteria is being able to communicate in french.
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I agree. And I also think that losing all that time is great for kids. It makes them learn how to deal with adversity. If anything, he should be extended or promoted.
Vachon23
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Well the saying goes, better late than never. So I guess we should praise Bergevin(?). I'm interested to see the narrative for his defense.
Yet both Therrien’s and Julien’s speeches to their players were/are in English. Is it because Jonathan Drouin, a Francophone, is bilingual?
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