Hall of Fame goalie Patrick Roy and Jean-Sebastien Giguere, the Avalanche’s backup netminder, have combined to win five Stanley Cup championships and four Conn Smythe trophies for playoff MVP. So some might think the Avs don’t need a goalie coach.

But Roy, the club’s new head coach, said Tuesday there will be a specialist on staff to work with Giguere and youngster Semyon Varlamov.

“I have someone in mind,” Roy said at his introductory news conference. “We’re going to have a goalie coach, no doubt about it.”

A logical choice might be Francois Allaire, who mentored Roy and Giguere. Allaire previously was employed by an NHL team in 2010 when he worked with Giguere and the Toronto Maple Leafs.

“Varlamov and Giguere are two very good goalies (and) Jiggy … I’m sure he’s like a big brother. (A goalie coach is) going to help (both) become even better,” Roy said.

Giguere, who turned 36 on May 16, is thrilled with the Avs’ selection of Roy to replace Joe Sacco. Roy, 47, is from Quebec City, and Giguere from Montreal.

“He’s a guy I modeled myself after as a kid, (partly) because we had the same goalie coach,” Giguere said of Roy. “I’m sure we take a lot of what we think and how we feel about the game from (Allaire).”

No other candidates. Sakic, the newly named executive vice president of hockey operations, said he didn’t interview anyone else for the job that Roy accepted, although he would have explored the availability of Phoenix Coyotes coach Dave Tippett and others if the Roy deal fell through.

Back from Europe. Paul Stastny and Gabe Landeskog played at the World Championship in Helsinki and Stockholm this month. Stastny captained the Americans to the bronze medal, playing with Avs defensemen Erik Johnson and Matt Hunwick and forward Aaron Palushaj. Landeskog and Team Sweden won the gold.

Stastny signed with the University of Denver in 2003, when Roy retired from the Avalanche, and joined the Avs after his sophomore season in 2006. Stastny remembers former Avs defenseman and team captain Adam Foote talking about Roy’s legendary career in Colorado.

“Footie would talk about things Patty would say, how smart he was, about the game, how good of an eye he had,” Stastny said. “There’s not a lot goalies like that, but I guess it’s like baseball, like a catcher: Everything is in front of him. He sees the whole 200 feet of the game.”

Stastny added that he’s thrilled to have two of the club’s legends — Roy and Joe Sakic — running the team.

“That’s two guys who really know the game, and when it comes to decision-making, that helps out a lot,” Stastny said. “As a coach, whether he’s hard on us or not, he knows the game, and there’s certain teaching points and not everyone teaches the same way.”

Footnote. With the number of international media in attendance, the news conference brought back memories of the craziness of the Stanley Cup Finals. Canadian sports giant TSN was filming, and a handful of French-speaking radio and television stations were on hand.