I don’t know what I’ll be later, but what I don’t want to be is someone acting. Unless it’s like Gilles Courteau, who has been acting QMJHL commissioner for 35 years. What an exception!
When you hear this expression, it doesn’t smell like a pension fund.
“Interim” in the dictionary: Period of time during which a function is left vacant by its holder and is performed by a replacement.
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Let’s say that we are far from Claude Julien’s 5-year contract at 5 million per year. Dominic Ducharme obtained a vote of confidence written in dotted lines. To your bank manager when borrowing for your mortgage, you don’t say you just landed an acting job.
The sword of Damocles
Dominic is a great guy and he slowly climbed the ranks before Marc Bergevin suddenly told him that the big day had arrived, that he was handed the team guides.
The shadow on the board, where the shoe pinches, is in that damn little Latin word, “interim”, which, as I wrote yesterday, means “don’t be mistaken”. If you are looking for the sword of
Damocles, she is above Dominic’s head, who doesn’t have a chance like Julien, Therrien, Vigneault or the others. Must say that he did not go through the American League. So he has half a chance.
He has only 33 games left to sell his salad to the players, get the club back on track and reach the playoffs. It will be necessary to install a system in record time to convince the management, the players, the journalists, the admirers that he is the man of today and especially of tomorrow. It’s stock.
Bold project
Ducharme slipped it subtly between two sentences from the start. He is a man of attack, of recovery. As an instructor, professing defense is a little complicated, but teaching offense is a different story. It takes daring and it is really on this level that we must understand and use the talent of the best players with creativity. You shouldn’t be afraid of mistakes.
Bringing this transition with an armored contract in your pockets is a thrilling adventure, you can take the time, but with the word “interim” comes a rather pressing dimension.
The word is not reassuring and can even become pejorative in the ears of players who have difficulty in applying the instructions of the coach. They say to themselves that his passage is temporary and that next year, another will be there.
I don’t know Dominic much, but enough to know that he deserves a real chance. He is courageous and passionate, and the hockey he advocates is the one we want to see. All in.
From the enclave
- Did you know there was a third Richard ? Maurice, Henri… and Claude, the youngest, who has never been able to make the big club. A fast winger, he had good seasons with the Hull-Ottawa Canadiens under the orders of Scotty Bowman. He won the Memorial Cup with the Jean Claude and Gilles Tremblay, Ralph Backstrom, Bobby Rousseau and Claude ruel (as a defender).
- For only 15 years, the players of the Canadian experienced eight changes of instructors. Imagine. Twenty-five men succeeded each other as coaches or assistants within that time. This is the fourth guardian instructor. Has Montreal become a cemetery of coaches ?
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- Does he have any plans in mind? Zdeno Chara successfully completed his real estate agent course.
- You know that our Alouettes will celebrate their 75th birthday this summer. Get out of COVID and celebrate. We are with you, Mario (Cecchini) ! Get out the ideas.
- Those are the Red Wings who have the lowest payroll in the NHL, at 51,665 million. Follow the Kings ($ 51,733 million) and Senators (59 775 M$).
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- Josh Anderson, from the Canadian, never takes a plane without a deck of cards.
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