In an off-season where the Montreal Canadiens have seen sweeping changes to the coaching staffs at both the NHL and AHL levels, there is still more work to be done to help improve the team overall.
They’ve added a talented coach in Dominique Ducharme to Claude Julien’s staff, while also retaining Kirk Muller as an associate coach. Ducharme’s focus will be on the team’s forward corps, but there is still room for one more person to join Julien’s group in Montreal, and it’s in an area that desperately needs improvement. That area is of course on defence — more accurately, the penalty kill — which sank Montreal’s season right from the first game onward.