Last season, Ducharme became the first coach to lead the Canadiens to the Stanley Cup final since 1993, when they won their last championship with Demers. The Joliette native won a QMJHL championship and the Memorial Cup as head coach of the Halifax Mooseheads in 2013, coached Team Canada twice at the world junior championship, winning silver in 2017 and gold in 2018, and was in his third season as an assistant coach with the Canadiens when Julien was fired. The Laval native also won the Hart Trophy that season as the NHL’s most valuable player and the Art Ross Trophy as leading scorer with 38-56-94 totals.ĭucharme focused on a coaching career after leaving Vermont and had impressive credentials when he took over from Claude Julien behind the Canadiens bench last February. Louis went on to have a Hall of Fame career in the NHL, winning the Stanley Cup with the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2004.
Louis and they were teammates for the 1993-95 season. Louis meet the media.ĭucharme helped former University of Vermont coach Mike Gilligan recruit St. Thursday when Jeff Gorton, the executive vice-president of hockey operations, GM Kent Hughes and St. We won’t get any answers until 11:30 a.m. sUXWaWigJY- Canadiens Montréal February 9, 2022 Merci pour tout, Dominique, et bonne continuité.įor giving us a summer to remember and for our deepest run since ‘93, thank you Dominique. Nous n’oublierons jamais le parcours de l’équipe jusqu’en finale de la coupe Stanley, à l’été 2021. If not, just ask Patrick Roy, who must be shaking his head now wondering how St. The last time they did that it was Mario Tremblay who was named head coach in 1995, replacing Jacques Demers, and Canadiens fans know all too well how that situation ended. Why was Ducharme still head coach when the Canadiens practised Wednesday morning in Brossard following an embarrassing 7-1 loss to the New Jersey Devils the night before at the Bell Centre?Īnd why did the Canadiens hire someone with no pro coaching experience to take over such a big job? Why wasn’t the coaching change made last week when they Canadiens had a bye week in their schedule, which would have provided a fresh start when the players returned to practice Monday?
Louis would replace him on an interim basis. The Canadiens announced Wednesday that Ducharme had been fired as head coach with the team sitting in last place in the overall NHL standings with an 8-30-7 record and that St. Louis were teammates for two seasons at the University of Vermont, they wouldn’t have believed it if you told them one day they would both become head coach of the Canadiens.
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