Speculation: Bilingual Coaches and GM Candidate List Part 3

[Runner77]

Means that the guy wants more, just like Brisebois before him. I suspect he will leave.

It also looks to me like the Brisebois path. I dunno how easy it might be to replace Sedgwick if he were to leave over not getting the GM job. This would throw a monkey wrench into the whole process.

 

[dinodebino]

It also looks to me like the Brisebois path. I dunno how easy it might be to replace Sedgwick if he were to leave over not getting the GM job. This would throw a monkey wrench into the whole process.

Yeah, great point.

 

[Runner77]

If John can learn French, he's definitely a strong candidate.

He has a fairly good working knowledge of French. He reminds me a little of how Geoff Molson expresses himself.

You can judge for yourself here, when he held a press conference about the setting up of the Habs’ ECHL team in 3R:



Despite the preamble by Paul Wilson about how French is not Sedgwick’s first language and that he may finish some of his answers to French questions in English, he never did do that throughout the segment — he answered all French questions wholly in French.

 

[Adam Michaels]

She could have given the Yzerman example first.

I don't blame her for bringing up Poulin before Yzerman because Sauvageau has been around Poulin a lot more. Not only knowing through Team Canada, but Seauvageau was a coach for Les Canadiennes and Poulin was her captain there. So I can see how Poulin is the one she automatically uses as a comparable.

 

[Treb]

Everything wrong.

Is it because it's a woman?

Would Lemieux or Crosby be more palatable answers?

 

[Forsead]

Means that the guy wants more, just like Brisebois before him. I suspect he will leave.

Yeah and I wonder if that means they are interviewing, in parallel, a guy like Peter MacTavish who has a similar background.