I don't really see the problem with any of those cases. As long as the coach is able to somehow communicate with the players and get good results out of them, who cares what language he speaks? He could speak nothing but Mongolian, but so what - shouldn't a coach be judged by his performance?
Not in the case of MTL. It could be in Quebec city, but not in MTL.
My point was to specify nobody have been "fired" because not speaking french.
Now, if you are right, why is Geoff Molson, Bergevin, Savard looking for somebody who can express himself in french, or course not necesseraly a quebecer? Gotta be a good reason.
As you probably recall, the Nords had Dave Chambers and later, Marc Crawford, who did not speak french, but the context in Qc city is way different then in MTL.
Anyway, I don't want to start another never ending discussion, this thread is not the place for this. I wanted to reply to our Glendale colleague, period. Lets not bring a mod to action ;-)