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It was a double-whammy for some Canadiens fans this week when Guy Boucher and Marc Crawford were hired to work behind the Ottawa bench.

Boucher, the Senators’ new head coach, and his associate Crawford were both considered possible candidates to replace Michel Therrien in Montreal if Canadiens GM Marc Bergevin had decided to take that route. Boucher and Crawford can both speak French which — whether fans like it or not — is one of the job requisites to coach the Canadiens.

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While that upsets some Montreal fans — especially anglophone ones — the Canadiens are a business and it’s understandable why it’s important to have the man behind the bench communicate in both official languages. Some fans blame the French media for that, but the francophones who cover the Canadiens on a daily basis have to be bilingual in order to do their jobs and can understand the coach no matter what language he speaks. The language issue is important to the Canadiens for their francophone fans — who want to hear what the coach of Les Habitants has to say in their own language.