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Here’s a story that will tell you what kind of a guy Kirk Muller is.

When the Canadiens were in St. Louis last January, Muller was an assistant coach with the Blues when he ran into Max Pacioretty following a morning skate. It had been almost two months since Carey Price’s season-ending knee injury and things had started to fall apart for the Canadiens. Muller decided to have a little chat with Pacioretty.

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“I knew at the time they were having a little bit of a rough time,” Muller recalled during a one-on-one interview following Monday’s practice in Brossard. “As a former (Canadiens) captain I just kind of talked to him to see how he was doing.

“I said: ‘Hey, listen, you just got to be who you are,'” Muller said. “So many captains are so good at what they do in different ways. Some are vocal, some are not, some lead on the ice … all different scenarios. I said: ‘You got to be who you are and what you do well is you score goals. You can’t take everything that’s going on and say it’s your responsibility to correct everything. No one can do that.’ If anything, I guess I really just said the message is just stay within your limitations. Be the same Max as prior to wearing the C and go out and do what you do best on the ice.”