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Josh’s Take: Montreal Canadiens season in review

By Joshua Delorme

MONTREAL, QC - MARCH 21: Paul Byron #41, Victor Mete #53, Jordan Weal #43, Shea Weber #6, Nate Thompson #21 and Carey Price #31 of the Montreal Canadiens stand attended for the Canadian national anthem before the NHL game the New York Islanders at the Bell Centre on March 21, 2019 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (Photo by Francois Lacasse/NHLI via Getty Images)
MONTREAL, QC - MARCH 21: Paul Byron #41, Victor Mete #53, Jordan Weal #43, Shea Weber #6, Nate Thompson #21 and Carey Price #31 of the Montreal Canadiens stand attended for the Canadian national anthem before the NHL game the New York Islanders at the Bell Centre on March 21, 2019 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (Photo by Francois Lacasse/NHLI via Getty Images) /
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MONTREAL, QC – OCTOBER 11: Montreal Canadiens (Photo by Francois Lacasse/NHLI via Getty Images) /

Now before some of you come at me and point out his numbers in Arizona this season, I have two things to say: he dealt with some injury situations this season, and let’s not forget he’s playing in Arizona! I can only imagine how hard it is to get motivated to play there!

If you want proof, just look at Max Domi’s numbers while in Arizona! Okay, back to Domi. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think that he was going to come in here and produce offensively at the level that he did this season. I mean, Max Domi scoring 72 points! Are you kidding me?!

The other off-season move(s) that truly paid off for the Canadiens was the changes to the coaching staff, both in Montreal and in Laval. I spent all of last winter and spring screaming that Montreal needed to fire Sylvain Lefebvre, the then Head Coach of the Laval Rocket, and hire one of Dominique Ducharme or Joel Bouchard.

Never did I expect Marc Bergevin to go out and actually hire both of them, Ducharme serving on the big club’s staff and Bouchard being brought in to coach the Rocket. I really believed that the Canadiens’ staff needed an infusion of youth and the adaption to the new style of the NHL, I thought the additions of Dominique Ducharme and Luke Richardson to the big club’s staff helped to add that. After last season, I was left thinking that Claude Julien’s playing style was no longer working in today’s NHL.

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