Through one half of the Montreal Canadiens season, it’s a bit unclear how good the team really is.
They showed they could be a scoring juggernaut through the first month of the season after general manager Marc Bergevin added key pieces like Tyler Toffoli and Josh Anderson in the offseason. The Canadiens then ran into the Ottawa Senators at the start of February, a team they should have beaten handily on paper but who ended up beating Montreal in three of the first four meetings.
It led to the firings of head coach Claude Julien, associate head coach Kirk Muller and goaltending coach Stephane Waite, who told the Journal de Montreal that Bergevin said if Price didn't start playing better, the GM would be next to go.