Canadiens fire Therrien, hire Julien

[CarltonTheBear]

Montreal Canadiens general manager, Marc Bergevin announced Tuesday the appointment of Claude Julien as the Club's new head coach. Michel Therrien has been relieved of his duties.

"I would like to sincerely thank Michel for his relentless work with the Montreal Canadiens over his eight seasons behind the bench, including the last five seasons when we worked together. The decision to remove Michel from his coaching duties was a difficult one because I have lots of respect for him. I came to the conclusion that our team needed a new energy, a new voice, a new direction. Claude Julien is an experienced and well respected coach with a good knowledge of the Montreal market. Claude has been very successful as an NHL coach and he won the Stanley Cup. Today we hired the best available coach, and one of the league's best. I am convinced that he has the capabilities to get our team back on the winning track," said Canadiens general manager, Marc Bergevin.

https://www.nhl.com/canadiens/news/claude-julien-appointed-head-coach-of-the-montreal-canadiens/c-286754858

Well that didn't take long.

 

[louisstamos]

 

[CarltonTheBear]

I was really hoping Claude Julien would have at least left the division.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

From this morning:

Will ‏@HeyMyNameIsWill  8 hours ago
Darren Dreger, on TSN 690, on Habs/Therrien: "I'm not getting the sense there's a coaching change coming in any way, shape or form"

 

[bustaheims]

Back for round 2, eh, Claude? I guess, after more than a decade, you would imagine things would have changed a little.

Also, the problem with the Habs is not the coach . . . but, we already knew that.

 

[herman]

 

[WhatIfGodWasALeaf]

From this morning:

Will ‏@HeyMyNameIsWill  8 hours ago
Darren Dreger, on TSN 690, on Habs/Therrien: "I'm not getting the sense there's a coaching change coming in any way, shape or form"

Let's start a go fund me to have someone follow Therien around with this quote on a sandwich board.

 

[herman]

Hilarious:
- Boston let a division rival for the playoffs poach their coach who knows everything about the team
- Montreal announces hire of Julien before announcing the firing of Therrien

 

[herman]

https://twitter.com/DJ_Bean/status/831622303393992704
www.twitter.com/DJ_Bean/status/831622303393992704

 

[Zee]

I'm worried this might turn the Habs around

 

[AvroArrow]

Good move by Montreal.  Hopefully they implode, though.

 

[Zee]

Good move by Montreal.  Hopefully they implode, though.

I'm holding out hope that we're living in the golden age right now. We don't know it now but 1993 will turn out to be for the Habs like 1967 for the Leafs.

 

[Frank E]

Good move by Montreal.  Hopefully they implode, though.

Agreed.  I like the move, but I don't like it because I want them to go down in flames forever.

 

[McGarnagle]

I'm thinking the timing was more about getting Julien than firing Therrien. I imagine Julien would have had his choice of 10 teams bargaining for his services in the offseason.

 

[hockeyfan1]

I'm thinking the timing was more about getting Julien than firing Therrien. I imagine Julien would have had his choice of 10 teams bargaining for his services in the offseason.

That's possible.  If that is one of the rationale behind the timing of the firing, then the Habs wasted no time in hiring Julien.   In fact, that was the first name that came to my mind as the replacement.  Not a surprise in the least.

 

[Peter D.]

Now if they could just undo the Weber/Subban trade, they may be on to something.