Habs need to forget about this language crap. Just hire the best.
This is really stupid indeed. Only some fcuked up minds can private a team from the best possible coaches and GM just for sake of language. Worse of all is GM position who give interviews once a two or three months, who give a fcuk if the GM speaks french or not and Habs problem is not only the language, it is GM keeps hiring his buddies for the farm team coaching job, players development, etc
Habs farm and prospect tank is pretty empty(only Sergachev which was drafted high last year), we were terrible in drafts in last 10 years, only 5 regulars play in NHL during this period, our farm team made the playoff in AHL after long time. There is no center depth, neither much of forward and defense in farm team. Only position we have a bit of depth is goalie(with Lindgren and McNvien) but then again we already have Price.
Our head of scouting, Timmins failed miserably, other than his jackpot draft in 07 with Patch, Mcdonagh and Subban, he was a real choker after. Players fail to develop in our system(Ghalchenyuk, Beaulieu) and no coincidence that our rookie forward Lehkonen who had great surprising year was developed in Sweden and just jumped to North America this year.
For once we need to get rid of higher management, and go for the real hockey people. I liked Bowman and JQ press conference after elimination against Nashville, they both kept saying we make sure this disaster doesn't happen again, in Montreal making playoff is already considered as the biggest achievement, all talks about cup is just BS. When Bergevin was hired as GM 5 years a go he had a so called 5 years plan, today our team stand worse than where it was back to 5 years a go in level of depth and player development.