If I am writing to you as a television columnist, it is because your Montreal Canadiens are causing immense harm to our sports channels.
As they finish in last place in their division for the third year in a row, RDS and TVA Sports will once again lose thousands of viewers and, as a result, significant advertising revenue. Enough to put their lives in danger. And I say nothing about the restaurants of La Cage, who will chase after customers, and the thousands of disenchanted Quebecers who will be reduced to quizzes, Wash to Win and old TV series revivals.
Do you find it normal that your team, which is the second or third richest in the entire National Hockey League, has not won the Stanley Cup since 1993? With the money you’re bringing in, the Canadiens should have plenty of star players. Like the Yankees in baseball, like Real Madrid in soccer or like the New England Patriots in football.
For 31 years, every original team in the National Hockey League has won the cup at least once. Except your Canadians and the Toronto Maple Leafs who have been hoping for it since the centennial of Confederation. The rest of them, at least, never ended up at the bottom of their division. Even though they were champions twice. Plus, they have star counters like Auston Matthews. Nick Susuki, our best counter, is 30e of the league with 77 points. Nikita Kucherov has almost twice as many in the top spot.
WORSE THAN 3e LINK
Since you and your two brothers bought the club from George Gillett, your Canadians have been rebuilding. But it’s like 3e link, nothing happens. It smells like a cut for two or three weeks at the start of the season, then it doesn’t smell good until the following year.
Dominique Ducharme had managed to propel the team to the final, but six months after extending his contract by three years, you kicked him out to hire Martin St-Louis. It seems to me that you would have been better off hiring Patrick Roy. As you saw, his Islanders are in the playoffs.
KENT HUGHES, THE VISIONARY
St-Louis sent a good message for Hydro-Québec, even that its French is improving, but not its team. Kent Hughes just gave him until 2026-27 to improve your team. Speaking of Hughes, he’s quite a visionary, that one. In its first year of reconstruction, the Habs won 31 victories and, this season, one less!
Dear Mr. Molson, you are lucky that the Nords no longer exist because we would have adopted them a long time ago. It’s incredible that attendance at the Bell Center is not decreasing. Still more than 20,000 fans who pay their butts to see the holy flannel lost every other time. Quickly, grab a lottery ticket!
Once again, your players take out their golf bags in April. That’s what we’re going to do, too. We will forget the Habs until next year. Unless we forget about him for good and replace him with the Montreal team in the Professional Women’s Hockey League, CF Montreal or the Alouettes.
I have no advice to give you, dear sir, but if I were you, I would not stretch my luck one year more! We’re at our wit’s end!