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		November 4, 1963 in Montreal, Quebec) was a head coach for the National Hockey League's Montreal Canadiens (77-77-15).
		Michel has also coached in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and the American Hockey League.
		He led the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the AHL to an exceptional start to the 2005-'06 season, before replacing Ed Olczyk mid-season as coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins in December of 2005.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Michel_Therrien (87 words)

	Q&A: Michel Therrien (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		General manager Craig Patrick brought Therrien up from Wilkes-Barre because he felt the team wasn't listening to Eddie Olczyk's message and that a new start was needed.
		Formerly the coach of the Montreal Canadiens, who were 77-91-22 during his tenure, Therrien has been described variously as blunt, an "in-your- face" disciplinarian, a no-nonsense leader and a teacher of the game.
		Therrien, the man tapped to salvage the season, answers questions from Post-Gazette reporter Robert Dvorchak.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05360/628072-61.stm (1041 words)

	Canadiens fire coach Michel Therrien - 01/18/03
		Therrien succeeded Alain Vigneault as coach in November 2000.
		The Canadiens are fourth in the Northeast Division at 18-19-4-5 and in 10th place in the Eastern Conference.
		Therrien is the sixth coach to lose his job in the NHL this season.
	www.detnews.com /2003/wings/0301/18/sports-63205.htm (397 words)

	Michel Ouellet : Sandbox.com - Michel Ouellet Biography from Sandbox.com
		Therrien said that Ouellet is playing strong defensively and doing the little things that lead to success in both ends of the rink.
		Head coach Michel Therrien said Ouellet could be gone for "another week," but there was not a definite timetable set for his return.
		Rookie winger Michel Ouellet is in the midst of a prolonged scoring slump.
	fantasynews.sandbox.com /2005/news/content/playerpages/player_main.asp?sport=NHL&id=1930 (678 words)

	Official Home of the Pittsburgh Penguins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Therrien, 42, has 14 years of head coaching experience at various levels of pro hockey — including parts of three seasons as head coach of the Montreal Canadiens.
		Therrien also spent seven seasons coaching top American Hockey League farm clubs in the Pittsburgh and Montreal organizations, and was a highly-successful coach in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.
		Therrien was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on Nov. 4, 1963.
	www.pittsburghpenguins.com /team/staff/bio.php?id=50 (447 words)

	CNNSI.com - Hockey - Slumping Canadiens replace Therrien with Julien - Friday January 17, 2003 06:11 PM
		Therrien succeeded Alain Vigneault as coach in November 2000.
		Michel Terrien wasn’t the type of guy who’d have been on anyone’s coaching list, and he’s responsible for the lion’s share of their meltdown in the playoffs last season.
		Therrien is the sixth coach to lose his job in the NHL this season.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /hockey/news/2003/01/17/canadiens_therrien_ap (715 words)

	Pens Fire Olczyk, Name Therrien Head Coach - NHL
		Therrien, who had been the coach of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey League, will have assistant coach Mike Yeo, strength and conditioning coach Stephane Dube and goaltending consultant Gilles Lefebvre as his new staff members.
		Therrien was in his third season as head coach of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton team after being named the second coach in team history on July 15, 2003.
		Therrien followed the 2003-04 season by setting a new team mark for points in a season (88) in 2004-05, and guided the Penguins to the second round of the Calder Cup Playoffs.
	www.nbcsandiego.com /nhl/5542295/detail.html (483 words)

	Official Home of the Pittsburgh Penguins: PENGUINS NAME MICHEL THERRIEN HEAD COACH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Therrien, 42, former coach of the Montreal Canadiens, will be joined in Pittsburgh by three new staff members – assistant coach Mike Yeo, strength and conditioning coach Stephane Dube and goaltending consultant Gilles Lefebvre, all of whom worked with him in Wilkes-Barre.
		Therrien was in his third season as head coach of the Penguins’ top farm club in Wilkes-Barre, having led the Baby Penguins to AHL Calder Cup Finals in 2003-04.
		Therrien coached four seasons in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League with Laval and Granby (1993-1997), posting a.720 winning percentage. Therrien won a Memorial Cup with Granby in 1995-96 and reached the QMJHL finals three times.
	www.pittsburghpenguins.com /team/press/arts/1528.0.php (507 words)

	Official site of the AHL powered by SLAM! Sports
		Therrien was fortunate enough to grow up at a time when the Montreal Canadiens were the dominant force in professional hockey.
		Therrien may not have been capable of forging an NHL career, but in his second pro season, in 1985, he captured a Calder Cup with the Sherbrooke Canadiens.
		Therrien moved into the pro coaching ranks in the Canadiens organization, and after three successful seasons, was promoted to head coach of the team he grew up watching.
	www.canoe.ca /AHLOnTheBeat03/1201.html (1004 words)

	Penguin as villain? No joke, Therrien can actually coach, too - CBS News
		Therrien's kiddie-corps collection has avoided nearly all the growing pains a team like this should, and in a season where a playoff spot was thought to be a long shot at the outset, Pittsburgh is instead contending for a division title with six weeks to play.
		Therrien was in his first full NHL season as Canadiens coach at time, and in the first round he was fined $30,000 for making a throat-slashing gesture to a Boston player.
		And Therrien has generally struck a much different tone concerning his players, sounding almost parental with frequent reminders about how many of his charges have less than a year's worth of NHL experience and need patience to mature.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/sportsline/main10017670.shtml (1034 words)

	SportingNews.com - NHL : Therrien holds no grudges against Habs
		Therrien said he got a call from Hartley the day he was fired, but they didn't discuss a coaching job.
		Whatever comes next for Therrien, it's sure to be quieter than the hectic life of a head coach in Montreal, where a rebuilding team is condemned to play before an audience that grew up watching the Canadiens win strings of Stanley Cups in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
		Therrien, not wishing to be a distraction after he was fired, elected to wait until the Habs were on road in Florida to meet with the media.
	archive.sportingnews.com /nhl/articles/20030120/452170.html (885 words)

	Checking the Leagues - FOX Sports Blogs
		So far, Michel Therrien left Joey Mullen a Wilkes-Barre/Scranton team that sat on top the East Division of the AHL ranking first in the penalty kill, breaking record after record from consecutive road streaks to rookie streaks and Dany Sabourin's goaltending streak.
		Therrien, deemed as the "red bull" ensured that despite all of the changes occurring in Pittsburgh's major club the effects on the minor league team were being dealt with such finesse that it shocked him how the team was responding to their call of duty.
		Therrien is a master of playing the media and with a straight face can go out and strictly tell the media exactly what is on his mind whether it be serious business or light-heartedly making a joke about a players actions.
	community.foxsports.com /blogs/Nikkantz/NHL/27803 (526 words)

	Michel Allard, Michel Thibault and Jacques Therrien
		AND IN THE MATTER OF the appeals of Jacques Therrien, Denis Therrien, Robert Thibodeau, Jean Lipari and Jean Hébert against proposed appointments to the bilingual non-imperative position of Team Leader-Mechanics (GLVHE-11-C3) resulting from selection process 01-DND-CC-MNTRL-947090, Department of National Defence, Quebec City and Montreal, Quebec.
		However, he pointed out that the Department had made another error in his case in that the selection board was unreasonable in its assessment of his experience and therefore failed to respect the merit principle.
		Therrien had enough experience to be deemed qualified for the position of Team Leader - Electro-mechanics.
	www.psc-cfp.gc.ca /recours/dec/decsum/dallard_e.htm (1880 words)

	Therrien to remain as Penguins' coach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		After Therrien was promoted from the club's top minor-league team, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Baby Penguins, Dec. 16 to replace Eddie Olczyk, the team went 14-29-8.
		Therrien favored structure over the creativity Olczyk preached in areas such as breakouts.
		Sergei Gonchar, who overcame a horrendous first half to finish eighth among NHL defensemen with 58 points, said late in the season that he preferred the structure of Therrien's system to the freedom he and the forwards had under Olczyk.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06111/683961-61.stm (571 words)

	Coach: 'Last year' for early Penguins pick - Boston.com
		Michel Therrien made only one promise after learning Thursday he will return as the Pittsburgh Penguins' coach next season.
		Therrien's optimistic outlook -- he expects his team to be in the playoffs as early as next season -- is based on how a mostly young team played down the stretch of the Penguins' worst season (22-46-14) since they were 16-58-6 in 1983-84.
		But Therrien could see an inexperienced team not only adjusting to a rigid system that was much different from the more wide-open system played under former coach Eddie Olczyk, but embracing it.
	www.boston.com /sports/hockey/articles/2006/04/20/coach_last_year_for_early_penguins_pick?mode=PF (638 words)

	JS Online: Admirals hand out a beating
		A livid Wilkes-Barre coach Michel Therrien climbed up on the top of his bench and screamed at the Milwaukee Admirals during a nasty third period on Wednesday night.
		Wilkes-Barre coach Michel Therrien stands atop the boards to yell at the Admirals' bench in the third period.
		Therrien also was angry that the Admirals had their top players on the ice for the 5-on-3 opportunity late in the second period.
	www.jsonline.com /sports/etc/jun04/234039.asp?format=print (801 words)

	Metronews
		Therrien received some harsh criticism for the way he publicly chastised his players.
		Therrien begins his first full season behind the Pittsburgh bench, and interestingly enough isn't the only fired Montreal coach to have resurfaced.
		Therrien, meanwhile, will no doubt serve up a doozy again sometime this season, especially since his young team isn't deemed quite ready to make the playoffs.
	www.metronews.ca /storyCP.aspx?pg=./s092132A.xml (879 words)

	A Tribute to Guy Carbonneau - Canadiens firings not what they seem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Mind you, Therrien has paid his dues, a career junior and minor-league bench boss who may be entirely adequate, given the right opportunity (and this may not be it).
		By hiring Therrien, Boivin put an "experienced" or career coach behind the bench, but gave Carbonneau the title (assistant coach) and role that will allow the former Hab captain to be deeply involved on a day-to-day basis.
		It would be a mistake to call Therrien a puppet or figurehead, but make no mistake—Carbonneau will have a huge say in the coaching of this team and may well be apprenticing for the balance of this season with an eye toward being the head coach by next season.
	www.livingbeyondreality.com /CoachMcKenzie.html (390 words)

	Therrian's whining must be curtailed - PittsburghLIVE.com
		Michel Therrien, appropriately enough for his post-game posturing this week, coaches a team called the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Baby Penguins.
		Therrien whined that Milwaukee coach Claude Noel used his top power-play unit late in the second period of Milwaukee's 8-4 win in Game 2 on Wednesday night.
		Therrien whined that his Baby Penguins were disrespected when he was the guy actually doing the disrespecting.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/sports/s_197408.html (743 words)

	NEPA News - Coaches, 10 players try to carry AHL success to NHL Penguins
		Wingers Michel Ouellet _ who is tied for the team lead in power-play goals with nine despite playing only 19 games _ Tomas Surovy and Colby Armstrong and goalie Marc-Andre Fleury also broke camp in the AHL, but now play significant roles with Pittsburgh.
		Therrien is known for a no-nonsense approach, and the clique of Baby Penguins in the Pittsburgh locker room believe that style can succeed there, too.
		Therrien said many of the new players' quick adjustment to the NHL level has a lot to do with the familiarity of their surroundings.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=15970554&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465816&rfi=6 (500 words)

	Coach Therrien criticizes Penguins again - Boston.com
		Penguins coach Michel Therrien rarely shies away from criticizing his players after poor performances.
		PITTSBURGH --Penguins coach Michel Therrien rarely shies away from criticizing his players after poor performances.
		Therrien was not nearly as happy with his team.
	www.boston.com /sports/hockey/bruins/articles/2006/02/09/coach_therrien_criticizes_penguins_again (820 words)

	Montreal Canadiens, Jeff Hackett, Jose Theodore, Saku Koivu, National Hockey League - CBS SportsLine.com
		As long as he was enjoying modest success coaching the Montreal Canadiens, Michel Therrien's volatile nature was easy for the organization to accept.
		Therrien was vilified for his monumental blunder, but since the Canadiens had reached the second round in their first playoff appearance in four years, he was given a pass -- and a new two-year contract.
		Therrien was a success at the junior level who worked his way up Montreal's minor-league coaching ranks before landing the top job in November 2000, bringing a change of pace to the organization from the staid Alain Vigneault.
	www.sportsline.com /nhl/story/6132702 (932 words)

	ESPN.com: NHL - After lowly stretch, Canadiens fire head coach Therrien
		One can't help but think that Michel Therrien's firing was not solely the result of Montreal's struggles this season, but that the way the playoffs ended last season.
		A coach has to keep his emotions under control, but Michel is a fiery guy who sometimes let things get away from him.
		There are a lot of excpectations in Montreal, there always have been, and it seems the buildup convinced the team that it was time to go in a different direction.
	espn.go.com /nhl/news/2003/0117/1494277.html (773 words)

	Michel Therrien's team can't quite cut it... - HFBoards
		From head coach of the Montreal Canadiens to riding a bus with a loser AHL team...quite a journey for Michel.
		In my book, Therrien was an energy pumped coach that has the CH tatoed in his heart.
		Therrien coached one of the best teams in the AHL to the Cup finals.
	hfboards.com /showthread.php?t=82504 (405 words)

	Patrick hires fiery Therrien to lead Baby Pens - PittsburghLIVE.com
		When he chose Michel Therrien as the new coach of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, he wasn't trying to pick the polar opposite of the man who previously held the position.
		Therrien comes to the Penguins after coaching the Montreal Canadiens for parts of the past three seasons.
		Therrien applied for the Pittsburgh opening months ago, but first made his interest in the Wilkes-Barre job known in a conversation with Olczyk lon July 7.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/sports/s_144780.html (662 words)

	NEPA News - Penguins start fresh after week under Therrien
		It will take more than just a week for new coach Michel Therrien to mold the Pittsburgh Penguins into his image.
		Michel Ouellet played last season and most of this season under Therrien for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, who had the best record in the American Hockey League when Therrien was promoted.
		While they would be expected to easily adjust to the coaching change, Therrien said he has been pleased that some of the team's veterans have appeared just as comfortable.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=15811130&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465816&rfi=6 (529 words)

	SportingNews.com - NHL : Habs fire Therrien, bring in Julien (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Therrien has had a running feud with Fraser dating to the second round of the playoffs last spring when he was slapped with a penalty for arguing a call, giving Carolina a two-man advantage that led to a comeback win that was seen as the turning point of the Hurricanes' six-game victory.
		Therrien, who reportedly was being paid $600,000 this season, is under contract through the 2003-04 season.
		Therrien, 39, who replaced Vigneault as head coach on Nov. 20, 2000, was in his third season with the Canadiens.
	i.tsn.com /nhl/articles/20030117/451488.html (1082 words)

	The Citizens Voice - Pens suffer shootout loss to Bears
		HERSHEY - To coach Michel Therrien, it was a gritty effort that earned the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins a point in the standings.
		Therrien accused Kane of embellishing an injury after he was hit from behind by Konstantin Koltsov with 9:54 left in the third period of a 2-2 game.
		Therrien called out Robitaille for his style of play while wearing a face shield to protect a torn tear duct suffered in a fight in late October.
	www.citizensvoice.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=15692652&BRD=2259&PAG=461&dept_id=455154&rfi=8 (601 words)

	Vindy.com - Slumping Pens go back to camp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The Pittsburgh Penguins knew what was coming after they lost their first two games last weekend under new coach Michel Therrien, and what this week would be like with five consecutive off days.
		Welcome to Camp Therrien, where the sessions are long, the skating is tough and the emphasis is getting better in a hurry, especially for a team that may have already run out of time to do anything this season.
		They're also learning and adapting to Therrien's system, which emphasizes controlling the puck, getting it back as quickly as possible when it is lost, never straying from assigned responsibilities on defense and being creative in the offensive end.
	www.vindy.com /mobile/300360250252645.php (633 words)

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