Re: Montreal Canadiens
Originally Posted by
yougo
1. Drouin is not french, he's francophone. French is a nationality. Stop using the term to describe French Canadian/Quebecois. Is anyone calling you English? Nope, so stop it.
2. I agree that limiting your hiring to only francophones is dumb as ****.
3. Miraculously, Claude Julien is probably a top5-10 coach in the league IMO so that the francophone thing isn't so much of an issue there. Biggest issue is with the GM.
4. With that said, I always thought Julien Brisebois is going to make a great GM. He always comes off really smart in every interview plus he crafted his thing for a while now. He's probably ready to be a GM. But is he the best guy available? Probably not. But he's the best francophone option.
Too bad. Across Canada, a lot of us refer to french speaking people as "French"
School's across Canada still call it French immersion when we teach English kids French as a second language. I still call my mom(and she calls herself) French, as she is born and raised in Quebec. In Halifax, Haligonians called Drouin "French" when he played for the mooseheads. In Moncton, we called the Francophone girls from Mathieu Martin high school Dieppe we dated "French girls". We also called the francophone girls from Shediac "French girls".
In fact THEY all referred to themselves as French girls. They also refer to themselves as French girls in Bathurst, Tracadie, Miramichi and Edmunston.
So feel free to correct all the Francophone in the Maritime provinces since they refer to themselves as "french" when talking to English people(Yes we do call ourselves that by the way when talking to French people), and quite a few refer to themselves as Franglaise, including my Father in law.
Maybe it is a Maritime thing, but I guarantee nobody here would give a darn or bat an eye if you came complaining about it other than to tell you its normal and don't let it bother you.
The fact remains Drouin is not a Center, is worse defensively than Galchenyuk and will be given prejudiced unfair opportunity to fail over and over again simply because he is french.
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