Here’s something that I’ve known for decades: The Montreal media’s obsession over the Canadiens — not over hockey, but over the Canadiens — borders on the insane.
Evidently, Jacques Lemaire knows it, too.
Lemaire told Charlie Walters of the St. Paul Pioneer Press on Tuesday that he’s not sure if he’ll ever coach again, but if he does remain in the game, it won’t be in Montreal. Even though he became a Hall of Famer with the Canadiens and still owns a home.
“I would not go there,” Lemaire told the Pi-Press. “You don’t want to spend (with media) 20 minutes on hockey and 40 minutes on what surrounds the game. Not as a coach.”
“The media want to know what kind of shorts I’m wearing before the game. I want no part of that.”
Can’t blame him. The Gazette isn’t so bad, but Le Journal de Montreal is crazy. For a guy like Lemaire, who didn’t hog the limelight in Minnesota, it’s obviously not worth the aggravation.