Montreal…..
Home of the legendaire Montreal Canadiens Hockey Club, Le Club de Hockey Canadien, if you will.
Stanley Cup destination in waiting for 18 years and counting now.
Home of the 12th place Canadiens in the NHL’s Eastern Conference.
Tonight, the storied Habs will be in Chicago to go against the NHL’s overall leaders, the Blackhawks.
And as the Canadiens arrive, the team is embattled in a language dispute that borders on ridiculous.
Randy Cunneyworth replaced Jacques Martin as a head coach in Montreal and is slotted to hold the position until the end of the year.
But this interim appointment in no good, or pas bon, since Cunneyworth ne parlez Francais.
What a crock. What a political joke. What a shining example of how misguided this sector of fans and element of the Quebec media is to make this such a tragedie non peril.
Is there any co-relation between the abilities of a coach and the language or languages he speaks ?
Non !
Qui, Claude Ruel, Jean Perron and Jacques Demers, all French speaking coaches, won the Stanley Cup for Montreal
Mais, using the same rational, explain the apparent failures of Bernie Geoffrion, Jacques Lemaire, Michel Therrien, Alain Vigneault and Mario Tremblay.
Or, explain how Dick Irvin Senior enjoyed such success behind the Canadiens bench ?
Il est tres comique
I’m Fred Wallace