Rejean Houle is interviewed after being let go as Montreal's GM.

Rejean Houle, English segments clipped only, 'Bush- letting the cables sleep' as the background audio track

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[acidremotecontrol]

Rejean Houle should come back as a Coach or replace Bob Gainey's role as GM. I don't think Houle had an advantage with what he had to pursue in his time there, from the budget, but now the NHL has a salary cap. Montreal spent about 70 million on trades this year. Honestly, Houle must feel that he was played because of what he had on his plate. He couldn't make big decisions, there had to be a balance,. Management should've been more responsible upon their actions within the course of 94-onward.

[Derek70388]

@CoronerDaVinci Getting rid of Turgeon was justified because he was playing like a 3rd liner and thinking he still deserved to be a top 3 forward. Koivu and Damphousse were outplaying him badly. But what they got in return was indeed horrible.

[CoronerDaVinci]

@Derek70388 , Maybe one of those reasons why Patrice Brisebois "Breezer" been booing by Montreal fans.

One of worst Réjean Houle was he traded Pierre Turgeon and Craig Conroy who played 1000 games for Shayne Corson bring back. It ashamed awful era, but Ronald Corey destroyed the team in late '90 either.

[latinodude85]

I hope that the Molson brothers are going to be smart enough to fire that useless Gauthier after the end of this current miserable season.

[latinodude85]

@montreal961

Couldn't agree more with you on that...

[montreal961]

@latinodude85 Gautheir's time here has been an Epic Failure.

[Derek70388]

While Houle didn't get much to work with from day 1, he also made terrible decisions from day 1 on. But there's one more transaction that is overlooked and may be the biggest fail of them all:

He decided to give Brisebois a no trade clause. He was going to trade Brisebois and Vladimir Malakhov to New Jersey for Sergei Brylin. NJ accepted and Brisebois just had to waive the clause. He refused and the trade was Malakhov to NJ for Sheldon Souray, and we know how Souray turned out.

[latinodude85]

The Habs had their worst period of their history under Houle, but things didn't really improve after Andre Savard took over. The Gainey era was ok, as they missed the playoff only once from 2003-2010, and I hope now that Pierre Gauthier is going to rebuild the glorious team Montreal had until the early 1990's.

[chrisconnell]

Horrible trades (Roy) and ever worse drafting got him canned. How many first round draft picks ended up as busts?

[asifineededaname]

rejean "pinotte" houle, le # 14.5 du canadien ...merci d'avoir démoli le club avec tes transactions poche et mauvaise décisions !