How is this any surprising? It was obvious from the moment Ducharme was signed as an assistant coach, that he was going to be the likely candidate to take over after Julien.
Bergevin literally said it's Ducharme's job to lose when he promoted him.
Unless the habs finish the second half with a brutal record and miss the playoffs, Ducharme will be the head coach next season. He's pretty much a lock. Even if a new GM is hired, Ducharme will be the man. They aren't going to fire/demote him when he didn't even get a chance to apply his own system to the team. He's made some tweaks, but nothing major since they are in midseason and on a condensed schedule.
Fact that he's under 500? The habs are 5-3-5 since he took over, which is a 577.
Can you put your bias aside and think logically instead?
There is literally no argument for Bouchard to be the habs head coach over Ducharme next season.
If Ducharme hasn't proven anything, then Bouchard has even less.
One guy has been the habs assistant coach for already a few years now and is the current head coach. The other guy has been the ahl head coach and didn't have a good winning record prior to this season.
If Bergevin wanted Bouchard to be the head coach, he would've been behind the habs bench right now.
In the small chance where Ducharme does not return as head coach, it's still not going to be Bouchard. They aren't going to demote/fire a rookie head coach to hire another rookie head coach.
Its actually amazing how so far out to lunch you are when it comes to coach hirings and people getting interim gigs and new GM's NOT sticking with a previous managers entire staff. The only bias here is coming from you and your inexplicable backing up of Ducharme for some odd reason, he's merely a placeholder, your tweet is also meaningless, *obviously* you wait until the season is over to look for a real head coach, you dont go out to the media and say "well honestly, ducharme is actually just keeping the seat warm" Youd look like an idiot and kill the interims confidence, He's clearly on a test run right now and its not really going so great, odds are they hire someone new, especially if they miss the playoffs, and IF we get a new GM miraculously its a GUARANTEE they bring in someone else to coach, thats not even a thought, thats a straight fact, you dont keep the previous GMs INTERIM guy, thats ludicrous
Bouchard is most likely Bergevins real candidate for the job, for reasons stated previously, they didnt want Laval in SHAMBLEs by sending bouchard up to the big time so soon, in this season of all seasons no less, We'll see if Bouchard gets the real job this summer and if he keeps Ducharme as an assistant which could very well happen as theyre good buddies
And uhhh ... 5-3-5 is not .577 lmao... im not even sure how you even got that figure tbh.. "500" in the sports world means a 50% winning percentage, i.e. if you've played 12 games and won 6 and lost 6, you are at "0.
500" (50%), basically to
calculate winning percentage, you divide
wins by games played.
Here, 5-3-5 is a cute way of saying 5-8 really, which is 0.385
Rest assured, if we DO miss the playoffs, theyre ALL gone anyway
