Nah not a hedge . I simply was a fool and completely misread the situation hahahah
Confirmed with Link: Jean-François Houle Parts Ways with Habs/Rocket to Coach at Clarkson University
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Hopefully, someone really good. Scoring goals wasn't an issue last season, but keeping the other teams from scoring sure as heck was.
Vachon23
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Wasn’t he in charge of the forward ?
And for his replacement, Sylvain Favreau will probably be a candidate
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Adam Michaels
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Any chance he’d take up an assistant coach role with the Rocket? Byron’s name also surfaced a while back.
Pleky, maybe?
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Adam Michaels
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Any chance he’d take up an assistant coach role with the Rocket? Byron’s name also surfaced a while back.
Pleky, maybe?
With only Buchberger having to be replaced, they'll hire a D coach.
You know who's available? JJ Daigneault.
Marciano did a good job with Dobes, glad he is back.
That would be a great choice imoWith only Buchberger having to be replaced, they'll hire a D coach.
You know who's available? JJ Daigneault.
OldCraig71
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Hughes and Gorton must like what he has done as head coach.
CristianoRonaldo
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Hughes and Gorton must like what he has done as head coach.
Our good prospects did not regress under him, so there is that.
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Vachon23
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Martin Lapperiere isn’t the one in charge of the Dmen ? He always work with the Dmen when he was with QCWith only Buchberger having to be replaced, they'll hire a D coach.
You know who's available? JJ Daigneault.
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I still wonder what the hold up was. Is this like laval's consolation prize because something didn't work out? If so, did houle want to come back so bad that he's willing to overlook that they were looking at other options?
That's just one scenario but I'm just curious what was going on behind the scenes.
That's just one scenario but I'm just curious what was going on behind the scenes.
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I'd also take JJD back for an AHL role. He did get quite a bit out of guys who shouldn't have been close to an NHL roster like Lernout, Davidson, Jerabek, Benn, Gilbert, Dietz, Nesterov, Joe Morrow, Douglas Murray, Pateryn, etc.
Guys like Beaulieu, Subban, Emelin, and Petry played their best hockey or broke out under him. Raphael Diaz couldn't even crack a roster after leaving here despite playing top 4 minutes and not looking bad while here.
Obviously it sucked watching half of those guys play, but it wasn't his fault that's what Bergevin gave him.
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Houle got Joel Armia out of his depression. Top coach.
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that's how i see it, I'm not a big fan at all and wish they could have had him and Joel Bouchard as co Head Coaches, since one seems to be great with the offense but sucks with the defense and the other great with team defense but sucks with the offense.
I can't complain because Houle for the most part does what I want to see a AHL head coach do and that's put the Mailloux's, Roy's, Ylonen's, etc.. in the right spots. It's bad news for the Norlinder's of the world as clearly Houle likes certainly types and not others. Will be interesting to see how he does with Mesar next year.
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Possible it was on Houle's end, he may have been trying to find an NHL assistant coaching role before committing to the AHL again.
Or Dandoullion...............With only Buchberger having to be replaced, they'll hire a D coach.
You know who's available? JJ Daigneault.
Adam Michaels
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No. It was Buchberger. You'll notice in games, he was always on the D side of the bench.
Adam Michaels
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The hold up was most probably from Houle, who might have been looking for an NHL gig. Maybe he had discussions with NHL coaches who might have had interest in hiring him as an assistant coach. And when that didn't pan out, he was willing to sign an extension.
And from Montreal's POV, they expressed their interest in extending him, but also probably gave him the opportunity to explore that avenue while giving him a deadline to when he will give them an answer.
