QMJHL Coaching Thread

saintflannel

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Marc-André Dumont is sticking around Cape Breton. His contract has been extended through 2018-19. Ugh.
 

JuniorMajeur

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Not related to coach but Halifax topic is close..

What about possible to see Marcel Patenaude named Gatineau GM..

Heard you Moose fans having hope to see him go, did you like this gm or not??
 

Raimu

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Not related to coach but Halifax topic is close..

What about possible to see Marcel Patenaude named Gatineau GM..

Heard you Moose fans having hope to see him go, did you like this gm or not??

Mooseheads fans hated Patenaude but, a lot of that may have been him feeling pressure from ownership to be competitive every year.

Though, that's been a lot of Gatineau's problem the last few years under Groulx too. Trading off high picks for immediate help and having just-okay playoff runs to show for it every year.

Hopefully Marcel does a better job in Gatineau than he did his last few years in Halifax. Granted, the Moose went to two finals under his tenure but, he also passed up every opportunity to rebuild (like not trading Brine, Carnegie or Cormier), never seemed to have any goaltending going into any contending season, (took him 4 years to realize Roger Kennedy wasn't a QMJHL caliber goaltender.), and left the team in shambles at the end of his contract.
 

donghabs98

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Mooseheads fans hated Patenaude but, a lot of that may have been him feeling pressure from ownership to be competitive every year.

Though, that's been a lot of Gatineau's problem the last few years under Groulx too. Trading off high picks for immediate help and having just-okay playoff runs to show for it every year.

Hopefully Marcel does a better job in Gatineau than he did his last few years in Halifax. Granted, the Moose went to two finals under his tenure but, he also passed up every opportunity to rebuild (like not trading Brine, Carnegie or Cormier), never seemed to have any goaltending going into any contending season, (took him 4 years to realize Roger Kennedy wasn't a QMJHL caliber goaltender.), and left the team in shambles at the end of his contract.

The Marchand trade still angers me. Russel was basically starting from scratch when he took over.
 

wingmanpei

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I don't think the Marchand trade was a bad one, it just wasn't the right one for the team at that time. IMO they should have spent the assets on a defenseman rather than an offensive forward. The team had lots of offense who played well together before the trade but the trade seemed to have thrown the offense off balance. Kinda too much of a good thing.
 

bigdirty

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I don't think the Marchand trade was a bad one, it just wasn't the right one for the team at that time. IMO they should have spent the assets on a defenseman rather than an offensive forward. The team had lots of offense who played well together before the trade but the trade seemed to have thrown the offense off balance. Kinda too much of a good thing.

Yep, we were the highest scoring team in the Q, and we went out and acquired another offensive forward. Along with a lack of defensive depth, we also had average goaltending, at best.

The part about that trade that really annoyed me was reading an interview with Patenaude a few days after the trade, where he said that he was a huge fan of Marchand, and had been trying to acquire him for several years. So he basically made the trade because he had always wanted Marchand, not because Marchand was what the team needed.

The value of the trade was fine, it was just a stupid move to make for the Mooseheads at that time.
 

Raimu

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it was a move designed only to sell tickets, and in that respect it worked. However it backfired, because for the next 3 years we began to average under 5,000 fans a game.

For half a season of 10,000 + attendance, we gave up about 2-3 k average attendance for 3 seasons.
 

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