By a great many criteria, Vos Canadiens are a top 10 team, even now while they're playing poorly, they've built up enough of a cushion to probably make it to the playoffs.

Les glorieux hardly beat good teams, or a team having a good night.  There's something missing, the drive, character, emotion.  The coach does not fit with this team.

Therrien is 1 of a # of coaches who can take a rag-tag collection of nobodies and make them decent, even a worthy playoff team, to whose fan base a decent showing in the post season is fantastic.

Problem with those coaches, and Therrien's 1 of them, that's their high water mark; can't take a decent team and make them challengers for the cup.  Everything is positional, checking, tight, never take a chance and score off the rush.  Never.

Subban ignored all that nonsense, and quite rightly.

But he's better at this point than Weber, and the trade was pure personality.