((HT: Sportsnet))
According to a report by thehockeywriters.com, Bob Hartley will be the next coach the Montreal Canadiens while Eric Veilleux, who led the Shawinigan Cataractes to a Memorial Cup title, will be hired as an assistant coach.
This would add to a front office that has Marc Bergevin and Rick Dudley on the GM front lines and, according to Renaud Lavoie over at RDS (and now the Canadiens are confirming), Scott Mellanby is going to be named Director of Player Personnel.
It looks like a lot of the old Atlanta Thrashers are hooking up in one place. Hartley was seen with Veilleux at the Memorial Cup tourney as a Shawinigan consultant. Montreal personnel were seen with both...
"One plus one" and all that stuff...
Hartley has been a winner wherever he has been and the Canadiens will have more resources than his last job in Atlanta...
If it plays this way, the new coach will be able to appease the Francophone fan base as a lot of Quebecers intended from the beginning after the Randy Cunneyworth experiment...
Here's some of Hartley's most recent action from his time at ZSC Lions- where he's got another winner under his belt...
((HT: SwissHabs/RTS))
More when we know more...
WEDNESDAY UPDATE: It could also be Calgary, or it could be nowhere...
According to RDS analyst Vincent Damphousse, Hartley has interviewed with Flames GM Jay Feaster a second time for their vacancy. But, TSN's Darren Dreger maintains that there may be problems with Hartley's ZSC Lions contract in Switzerland.
ZSC may not just rip up Hartley's current deal and wave at him from the dock...
The plot thickens...
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