Meet the New Habs Coach...Same as an Old Coach

This man that is deep in thought is Michel Therrien, and as of a few minutes ago, he is now officially the new coach of the Montreal Canadiens.  Don't laugh, he really is the new coach of the Canadiens.  Granted, he did have a previous stint as coach of the Canadiens in the early 2000's, but this is his second chance at redeeming himself, after getting axed in 2003 by the Canadiens and in the 2008-09 season with the Penguins...a year after making the finals with the Penguins and before they would win it all a few months after he got fired.

Therrien's hiring should not really come as any baboon's butt of a surprise, seeing as he fits the bilingual requirement, and given that the likes of Marc Crawford, Bob Hartley, and Guy Carbonneau (another ex-Habs coach) were considered, the Canadiens didn't exactly have that much in the way of a choice for coach.  You had a guy whose best years were with Colorado and Vancouver (both talent laden teams), a guy who is still a relative unknown because of the talent on those teams (Colorado and Atlanta...and now coaching Calgary), and an ex-Habs coach and player who was actually the best of a rather mediocre lot that had coached the Habs since 1996.  That isn't to say Therrien won't succeed this time around, but here's hoping he learned a thing or two from his Pittsburgh days, though Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin are not going to be putting on Canadiens sweaters anytime soon.