The Montreal Canadiens are all set behind the bench with Martin St. Louis who is, by all accounts, a very popular head coach among the players. He sort of came out of nowhere to be named head coach, and didn’t come up through the system like many others. Not that that seems to be slowing him down.
One coach who did come up through the Canadiens coaching ranks was Joel Bouchard. He was the head coach of the Laval Rocket for three seasons, and finally seemed to have the Habs top affiliate on the right track.