Pierre Gauthier
Pierre McGuire - analyst on NBC and Versus
Patrick Roy - co-owner, GM, coach Quebec Remparts
Jim Nill – assistant GM, Detroit
Bob Gainey - special advisor Mtl
Julien Brisebois – assistant GM TB/GM Norfolk Admirals
Vincent Damphousse – analyst RDS
Pierre Lacroix – president Colorado
Pat Brisson – co-head Hockey Divison CAA
Trevor Timmins - director procurement and player dev. Mtl
Claude Loiselle – assistant GM Toronto
Serge Savard – co-owner PEI Rockets
Paul Fenton - assistant-GM Nashvile/GM Milwaukee Admirals
Doug Risebrough – president Minnesota (2009)
André Savard - ex-assistant coach Pittsburgh (2009)
Jim Benning - assistant GM Boston
Jarmo Kekkalainen - GM Jokerit (Finland)
Marc Bergevin - assistant GM Chicago
Methodology
1. I compiled all the candidates suggested by posters in Management Thread 2.0 and 3.0.
2. *I didn't exclude any ridiculous suggestions*
3. I wrote the candidates in the same order I found them in those threads. Edit 1: 4. Deleted Edit 2: 5. Filtering coaching candidates: Out: Demers. Edit 3: 6. Filtering GM candidates: Out: Bowman, Lemaire.
Edit 4: 7. Unavailable and not going anywhere: Out: Trotz, Babcock, Julien, Yeo, Quenneville, Poile, Shero, Chiarelli. Edit 5: 8. Will reconsider an exclusion if any evidence that it's a serious candidacy. Edit 6:
9. I'll update this list by adding a name either if:
a) a news source suggests a serious candidate, or
b) more than one posters say he's their first choice, or
c) 3 posters suggest a candidate
Last edited by Erik Estrada: 12-23-2011 at 03:20 PM.
To the Mods: I created this thread because the Management Thread was cluttered with coaching philosophy, politics, social commentaries, etc... It'll obviously be at your discretion if this thread should be merged or should stand alone.
Methodology
1. I took all the suggested names I could find in the Management Threads.
2. I didn't exclude any ridiculous proposals (someone on the list might have passed away for all I know)
3. Besides Cunneyworth and Gauthier, I wrote the names in the order I found them.
4. Please feel free to add all the names I might have missed.
Coach
Randy Cunneyworth
Randy Carlyle
Michel Therrien
Patrick Roy
Guy Boucher
Clément Jodoin
Barry Trotz
Lindy Ruff
Mike Babcock
Jacques Lemaire
Claude Julien
Benoit Groulx
Martin Raymond
Mike Yeo
Larry Robinson
Guy Carbonneau
Alain Vigneault
Bob Hartley
Denis Savard
Jacques Demers
Kirk Muller
Marc Crawford
Pascal Vincent
Joel Quenneville
GM
Pierre Gauthier
Pierre McGuire
Patrick Roy
Jim Nill
Bob Gainey
Julien Brisebois
Vincent Damphousse
Pierre Lacroix
David Poile
Ray Shero
Peter Chiarelli
Scotty Bowman
Pat Brisson
Trevor Timmins
Claude Loiselle
Serge Savard
Paul Fenton
Doug Risebrough
Jacques Lemaire
You can erase 95% of your names, and some are way too old.
Damphousse as GM and Roy as head coach seems the most possible ones.
The guy lives in California (has some important business with his buddy Luc Robitaille) and he is making millions as a player agent. You won't attract him in MTL.
Crawford has been fired from how many teams so far ?
Best case, Julien Brisebois as GM, Jim Nill as "ast GM", Brisebois has is more of a the money guy, so Jim Nill is really call all the shots in regards to player personnel.
As for coach, Beniot Groulx, or maybe Martin Raymond.
I'm just praying Guy Boucher gets fired from Tampa so we can sign him. System coach for system players. Probably our best bet to prevent us from falling into the abyss.
The guy lives in California (has some important business with his buddy Luc Robitaille) and he is making millions as a player agent. You won't attract him in MTL.
Crawford has been fired from how many teams so far ?
I just glimpsed at the list, I saw Trotz, and I assumed that this is probably a humoristic post. To test my theory, I decided to search for Babcock's name. There it was. So yes, this is a pretty funny thread.
Nill for GM. He's the only candidate on that list that I see as having a technical leg up on what Gauthier's done so far.
Poach Boucher from Tampa if at all possible. There's one Franco coach that I can agree would definitely be one of the best candidates available, if he were to become available.
