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Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin will come out of his foxhole at 1:30 p.m. Monday in Brossard to face the media for his season-ending news conference.

It will be interesting to see what he looks like.

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Bergevin’s appearance told the story throughout this dismal season that ended with a 38-38-6 record and the Canadiens missing the playoffs for the first time in the four seasons since the 50-year-old took over as GM.

When Bergevin met the media at the team’s annual golf tournament last Sept. 10, he looked fresh, fit and happy in his bright red Canadiens golf shirt. Eight days later, the GM was all smiles again, relaxed and dapper in a grey suit and blue shirt (no tie) as he announced Max Pacioretty was the Canadiens’ new captain.

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But on Oct. 5 — only two days before the season opener in Toronto — Bergevin looked a little rattled, rumpled and a bit unshaven when he faced the media in a white dress shirt and no jacket after Zack Kassian’s truck crashed into a tree in the early hours of the morning and put one of his key off-season acquisitions into the NHL’s substance-abuse program.