TRANSLATED THREAD
(Original thread below)

After Réjean Tremblay’s explanations (and not excuses) at @919sports I decided to do my little research to understand why he is so attached to the Francophone identity among the Canadiens https://twitter.com/MathieuMMtl/status/1359312417558265865

I took a look at the 31 active NHL teams to see how many local players are on each team.

First of all, of the 31 teams, there are 18 teams that do not have any local players. Among others, we find the 2 finalists of the Stanley Cup
- Tampa Bay
- Dallas

You might be surprised to learn that two Canadian teams have no local players
- Winnipeg
- Calgary

13 teams have local players (from the same Province or State)
- Boston (3)
- Columbus (1)
- Detroit (3)
- Edmonton (2)
- Los Angeles (1)
- Minnesota (4)
- Montreal (2)
- NYR (2)
- Ottawa (8)
- Penguins (1)
- SJS (1)
- Toronto (10)
- Vancouver (2)

The 2 numbers that pop out are those of Ottawa (8) and Toronto (10), but you have to keep in mind that throughout the NHL, there are a total of
- 161 players from Ontario
Vs
- 45 players from Quebec

I understand the desire to hold on to the Quebec identity through the Canadiens, but we must stop making this association because the new reality of this league is different from that of the Temps des Glorieux

The Montreal Canadiens must be proud to have been able to repatriate an AHL team to Laval and the ECHL soon to come in Trois-Rivières.

In addition, the team is full of native and adopted Quebecers

The operations and coaches team is proudly from Québec with the names of:
- Marc Bergevin
- Martin Lapointe
- Claude Julien
- Kirk Muller
- Stéphane Waite
- Dominique Ducharme
- Mario Leblanc
- Claudine Crepin
- Alain Gagnon
- Eric Gravel
- Francis Bouillon

Coaching staff
- Pierre Gervais
- Pierre Ouellet
- Patrick Langlois
- Richard Genereux
- Graham Rynbend
- Donald Balmforth
- Claude Thériault
- Pierre Allard
- Patrick Delisle-Houde
- Martin Fréchette

In addition, this team has an administrative team filled with Québécois
- Geoff Molson
- Marc Bergevin
- France Margaret Bélanger
- Anna Martini
- François-Xavier Lord
- Vincent Lussier
- Réjean Houle
- Geneviève Paquette
- Daniel Trottier
- Paul Wilson

And you can do the same job with the Rocket
- Joël Bouchard
- Alexandre Burrows
- Daniel Jacob
- Marco Marciano

And all the others ... Please don’t hesitate to add names, I’m passing many

So before analyzing the product on the ice and saying that we no longer have the Québec identity within the Canadiens, look further and appreciate our team!!