Confirmed with Link: John Madden joins scouting staff

[Chris Cutter]

John Madden joins the amateur scouting staff of the Montreal Canadiens. He will be in charge of NCAA and USHL scouting.

Canadiens Montréal‏@CanadiensMTL

John Madden se joint au personnel de recrutement amateur des Canadiens./ John Madden joins the Canadiens’ amateur player recruitment group.


Canadiens Montréal‏@CanadiensMTL

Madden will be responsible for the scouting and evaluation of free agent players at the US college level.

[vad87]

Canadiens Montréal ‏@CanadiensMTL
John Madden se joint au personnel de recrutement amateur des Canadiens./ John Madden joins the Canadiens’ amateur player recruitment group.

Canadiens Montréal ‏@CanadiensMTL
Madden will be responsible for the scouting and evaluation of free agent players at the US college level.

[11Goat11]

Just saw this on Twitter and came to post this. Another x-player in the fold to scout NCAA propsects, great idea.

[Marc the Habs Fan]

Talk about a specific job task. Don't bother scouting anyone else, just the FA's, John.

[PATCHESx67]

geeeeez you guys are fast lol

[Chris Cutter]

I won, suck it Vad87!

[vad87]

Originally Posted by Chris Cutter

I won, suck it Vad87!

I posted 30 secondes too late the thread about Landeskog on the main board and now this... what a bad day

[BeBen*]

Originally Posted by ThaDevilGirl

I don't get it.

I posted

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[WeThreeKings]

I don't get it.. we're scouting football players now?

[Takashi]

we hired so many scouts in one offseason

[vad87]

Originally Posted by WeThreeKings

I don't get it.. we're scouting football players now?

JaMarcus Russel will fill our big d-man problem If Big Byf can do it he can do it too

[Monctonscout]

Originally Posted by Chris Cutter

John Madden joins the amateur scouting staff of the Montreal Canadiens. He will be in charge of NCAA and USHL scouting.

Canadiens Montréal‏@CanadiensMTL

John Madden se joint au personnel de recrutement amateur des Canadiens./ John Madden joins the Canadiens’ amateur player recruitment group.


Canadiens Montréal‏@CanadiensMTL

Madden will be responsible for the scouting and evaluation of free agent players at the US college level.

He was an awesome football coach but wht does he know about hockey?

[vad87]

Originally Posted by Takashi

we hired so many scouts in one offseason

I think this signature is a good move. We talked on the forum last week about all the NCAA free agents we missed out and now, we have a guy just for that.

[HatTricK09]

Originally Posted by vad87

I think this signature is a good move. We talked on the forum last week about all the NCAA free agents we missed out and now, we have a guy just for that.

Marc Bergevin is watching

[Miller Time]

MB again showing that he's got a much better grasp of the importance of building a quality staff behind him than previous management did.


Madden is exactly the type of ex-player who has the kind of make-up to be very successful in hockey-ops roles... glad to have him in the organization

[DJyellow]

The Habs will dominate the Front Office beer league

[habitue*]

The Habs have more depth and talent off the ice than on the ice...

[Andy]

Does Madden have any scouting experience prior to this hiring? Or is this his first gig?

[VirginiaMtlExpat]

Can he take face-offs in the defensive zone if we need him to?

[HatTricK09]

Originally Posted by habitue

The Habs have more depth and talent off the ice than on the ice...

When is Gretzky joining our staff?

[VirginiaMtlExpat]

Come to think of it, what this team needs is the other John Madden doing some scouting, so that we can put together an All Madden team.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/madden...page=allmadden

[131313]

Originally Posted by Andy

Does Madden have any scouting experience prior to this hiring? Or is this his first gig?

I don't know but the guy was a very intelligent player back in his best days. Was never a big point producer but was a key contributor to the Devils cups of the early 2000s. He didn't win a Selke for nothing. Great work ethic too.

He may not have any experience but he has all the attributes to be a successful scout and talent evaluator imho.

[PricePkPatch]

You know, when I heard Dudley was now in charge of Pro Scouting, I thought they were talking about Scouting of professionals.

Not scouting for actual Scouts! Good news!!

[Andy]

Originally Posted by Flying Knee

I don't know but the guy was a very intelligent player back in his best days. Was never a big point producer but was a key contributor to the Devils cups of the early 2000s. He didn't win a Selke for nothing. Great work ethic too.

He may not have any experience but he has all the attributes to be a successful scout and talent evaluator imho.

Hmm, I don't think we can judge a player's scouting ability based on the way he played the game. It's great that management is expanding the scouting team, but we really won't know what Madden will bring us until players actually get drafted or signed.

We've seen good players fail in management positions before. I'm not saying Madden will fail, but we really have nothing to judge him on if it's his first gig. The intentions are definitely good, we'll see how it plays out.

[Captain Smurf]

I'm getting a little worried about creating a "too many cooks in the kitchen" type of scenario, but our scouting staff was understaffed by Gauthier.