Would some of the Montreal Canadiens’ defensive problems be resolved if the organization hired an experienced assistant to support Martin St-Louis behind the bench?
According to Tony Marinaro, this is exactly what Sainte-Flanelle should do.
“The lack of experience behind the bench is terrible,” he said Friday during his segment on the show JiC.
See the discussion with Jean-Charles Lajoie in the main video.
Currently, the St-Louis assistants are Trevor Letowski and Stéphane Robidas. Roger Grillo also acts as a consulting coach.
“Letowski, he has been an assistant coach with the Canadian for four years. Before that, he was not in the National League, Marinaro raised. Stéphane Robidas has been there for two and a half years. He wasn’t in the National League before that. St-Louis, he will have been there for three years in February. Previously, he worked as an advisor to [John] Tortorella for the numerical advantage for a few months.
“The problem is understanding the system [défensif]he then said. They [les joueurs] are shuffled like a pack of cards.”
“I want someone with experience next to Martin St-Louis to help him, because the defensive system is not his strength!”
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For his part, host Jean-Charles Lajoie does not believe that this option is possible.
“It’s not going to happen,” he said. If you do this, you rip both of Martin’s testicles off publicly. He is dead…”
