On Tuesday afternoon Michel Therrien was fired as head coach of the Montreal Canadiens for a second time in his coaching career.
It was his fifth season behind the bench of the team, coaching 352 regular season games which made him the longest tenured Montreal head coach since Scotty Bowman, who coached a remarkable 634 games from 1971 to 1979.
Incidentally, combining Therrien’s two stints as head coach between 2000-2003 and 2012-2017 comes to 542 games, ranking him fourth overall all-time behind Toe Blake (914 games coached), Dick Irwin (869), and Bowman.