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I’ve been calling for the firing of Michel Therrien for a long time, but I didn’t think it would happen this week. I was convinced Marc Bergevin would stick with his foxhole buddy until the end of the season and then, following a quick first-round exit, the GM would be forced to chop his old pal.

But that’s not the way this Shakespearean tragedy played out. The Habs announced that Therrien had been ordered to walk the plank late Tuesday, less than 48 hours after his team embarrassed him and themselves at the TD Garden in Boston Sunday night. And in comes former Boston Bruins bench boss Claude Julien.

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First things first. Props to Bergevin. He made the right decision firing the coach. Therrien had to go. Unlike others, I have not ever flip-flopped on this issue. I didn’t like him during his first tour of duty with the Habs at the beginning of this century and I liked him even less this time.

My view is that the team was not going to win anything with Therrien. He is an extremely limited tactician who has been out-coached in virtually every playoff series since returning to the Habs in 2012 and he simply isn’t very good at coaching his team out of difficult situations.