Martin St. Louis looking forward to taking over Canadiens’ power play
There will be only three coaches behind Habs bench this season as Roger Grillo joins team as a full-time coaching consultant.
There will be only three coaches behind Habs bench this season as Roger Grillo joins team as a full-time coaching consultant.
It was important and appropriate that Jeff Gorton and Kent Hughes began their end-of-season news conference Wednesday with an announcement on the future of coach Martin St. Louis.
To fully understand the complicated puzzle Montreal Canadiens coach Martin St. Louis will face heading into his third full season behind the bench, a brief synopsis of the day of his team’s final game of the 2023-24 season is necessary.
Speaking to the media before the Philadelphia Flyers’ game against the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday, John Tortorella was asked about Canadiens head coach Martin St. Louis, a former player of his with whom he won a Stanley Cup with in 2004 when the two were with the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Coaches have strong relationship going back to Cup-winning season with Lightning in 2004.
“I think coaching is a lot like parenting,” the father of three boys says. “I really care about these kids. To me, they’re kids.”
Martin St. Louis’ tenets for how he wants the Montreal Canadiens to play should be well known at this point.
It’s something he learned from his late mother and now he’s passing that attitude on to Habs players.
To say that Montreal Canadiens head coach Martin St. Louis is liked by fans would be an understatement.
Martin St. Louis pulls up a seat in the conference room of the Montreal Canadiens’ practice facility, pops open a carbonated water bottle and settles in for a lengthy conversation.
“Two key elements for me is enthusiasm and respect, and I think we really work off that,” head coach Martin St. Louis says.
Hall of Famer says doing public speaking after retiring as a player helped prepare him to become a head coach in the NHL.
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