NHL Around the League: 2021 Regular Season II - Poutineville fires Claude Julien
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Terrier
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Gallant must speak some French, having spent 3 seasons playing in the Q.
You'd think right, but his french is poor , not good enough for the media which is why they always insist on a French speaking coach
DKH
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Isn't it time to rehire Michel Therrien
makes sense
makes sense
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Neely = HOF
Hopefully never so they stay mediocre forever.
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I've always thought Andrei Nazarov was a complete clown so I'm also not surprised someone as f***ed as him would be in Putin's back pocket.
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As if the Bruins weren't missing Krejci...Grzelcyk....Miller....Zboril.... Essentially Lauzon too
You pick the right coach for the job, period, regardless of whether or not they speak French.
I was surprised Muller was let go to and he does not speak French.
My guess is Patrick Roy may get a call now?
why Roy owns the Remparts in QC, doubtful that connection as to why he shot himself out of Montreal would endear a return outside of his retirement ceremony/banner raising
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Exactly. What about the short-handed Bruins that were one win away from being champs in 2019? Bruins had to go with Steve K at one point and still got a big goal out of him. Karson Kuhlman was on the 2nd line in the finals as well. Teams just need more depth like the Bruins.
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Unless you are in the middle of one of those numerous losing streaks.
I don’t agree with your take and I don’t really see the fact to back it up. They’ve had runs where they seem to be outperforming their roster, but they’ve had plenty of awful runs. I’m not holding Claude to the standard of turning Montreal into a contender, but I don’t think he deserves perpetual, never-ending benefit of the doubt because of his past successes. Can’t say I’ve heard anyone (other than us nervous Bruins fans) saying Montreal is a team that “no one wants to play against” in the past number of years.
He had a “veteran roster” when he got fired in 2017 and the team immediately started playing better after he was let go. Take a look at their record after he was fired.
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I thought with the the last name Gallant his French might be decent.
But I guess PEI is not exactly a bilingual province.
I don't think Marchand speaks a lot of French either.
McGarnagle
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NESN and the Bruins should hire Claude Julien to do a segment between periods on Saturdays and call it Clode's Corner
He can then give his opinion on why Trent Frederic needs to develop defensive zone play and why a veteran like Greg McKegg should be in the starting lineup over him.
He can then give his opinion on why Trent Frederic needs to develop defensive zone play and why a veteran like Greg McKegg should be in the starting lineup over him.
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Blake's mother was French and he spoke it fluently. Bowman was also fluent in French. Don't know about Irvin.
Note, this in no way means I support that team's silly insistence on French speaking coaches, except for it being a big reason they are '93 Forever.
Was thinking the same thing but with also keeping ( play for a tie ) Claude just to keep the Scabs irrelevant for life!
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This is a bizarre season to begin with; no preseason games and the Sens didn't qualify for the play-in. So in addition to lots of new faces, the returning players hadn't competed in quite some time.
It will be interesting how they play against teams that feasted on them out of the gate. Even then, with just average goaltending they'd have won more games.
I'm sure the consecutive losses to Ottawa weren't the sole reason for Claude's dismissal. But they did seemingly give Bergevin the reason he needed.
It will be interesting how they play against teams that feasted on them out of the gate. Even then, with just average goaltending they'd have won more games.
I'm sure the consecutive losses to Ottawa weren't the sole reason for Claude's dismissal. But they did seemingly give Bergevin the reason he needed.
I bet the Leafs are happy about that.
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