Candidates for defensemen coach

SakuKoivu11

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1 - Mike Kitchen
2 - Jay Leach
3- Todd Nelson
4 - Alain Vigneault

Vigneault is still being paid by NYR for 2 more seasons at $4 mil per. If he takes another job it will void his salary. I don’t see it happens for 3 more seasons. Highly doubt Habs will pay their coaching 9 mil between Julien and Vigneault.
 

Brainiac

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Could be. But the notion that Bergevin is just going to hire a friend, while firing two lifelong friends in the last month is just playing the same boring narrative. It's preaching to the choir at this point.

Maybe I got that wrong, but wasn't it just JJD's contract not being renewed? Two very different things.
 

Brainiac

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Semantics. Not that different at all in a world where coaches get new contracts all the time.

There's a huge difference between :

-You're so bad we're gonna pay you to stay at home.

and...

-We had a down year, the boss wants some change and thus we unfortunately can't renew your contract.
 

yianik

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Just for something different. I would really like it if we are going to go with a former player we could try someone who wasn't a bottom pairing D man in his career. No guarantees that is the way to go, but you know, like give it a whirl. See what happens.
 

BobbyShehan

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So many interesting names. Big Bird? Sure. I mean Jacques Laperriere coached defensemen until he was about 200 years old so age is not that important. It'd be amazing to see him back in Mtl but I doubt he'd be interested at this point. There's one guy I think would be a great coach. He spent his whole career giving the puck to his partners and telling them where to go. Never coached but he always was somewhat of a player-coach during his long career despite being the worst skater in the league. He was all about positioning. Hal Gill is very bright and respected by all. Plus he'd bring a bit of fun in this very drab dressing room.
 

BobbyShehan

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J. Bouchard is not coming in as an assistant coach, lol. Unless the Habs make him very rich by investing a lot of $$$ in his team, which would be kinda weird.
 

DXStriker

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J. Bouchard is not coming in as an assistant coach, lol. Unless the Habs make him very rich by investing a lot of $$$ in his team, which would be kinda weird.
I think Bouchard is getting Laval

But D Coach i can see it being someone Claude is close to since he never got his own people
 

Vachon23

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J. Bouchard is not coming in as an assistant coach, lol. Unless the Habs make him very rich by investing a lot of $$$ in his team, which would be kinda weird.

No way he goes assistant ! for me he is going Assistant Gm + Rocket GM + director of Developpemet

So many interesting names. Big Bird? Sure. I mean Jacques Laperriere coached defensemen until he was about 200 years old so age is not that important. It'd be amazing to see him back in Mtl but I doubt he'd be interested at this point. There's one guy I think would be a great coach. He spent his whole career giving the puck to his partners and telling them where to go. Never coached but he always was somewhat of a player-coach during his long career despite being the worst skater in the league. He was all about positioning. Hal Gill is very bright and respected by all. Plus he'd bring a bit of fun in this very drab dressing room.

Big Bird said that he doesn’t want to be coach anymore but I would bring him as consultant ! And for Gill you have a really good point ! He help alote of young D like Subban and he know how work a PK ! He is an option that they need to consider even if I think that the best candidate is Trent Yenway
 
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