Music: {allcanada} PACIORETTY SAYS THERRIEN HASN'T LOST CANADIENS' ROOM

Monday, January 27, 2014

{allcanada} PACIORETTY SAYS THERRIEN HASN'T LOST CANADIENS' ROOM

Canadiens winger Max Pacioretty explains to The Montreal Gazette that his team’s current slumping state “isn’t rock bottom.” Similarly, anyone suggesting that head coach Michel Therrien has “lost the room,” would have to look elsewhere.

“Obviously, we’re not playing the right way, but it’s not like guys are trying to sabotage the Montreal Canadiens. We want to win,” Pacioretty told The Gazette.

“(Therrien) is being positive right now. He’s doing a great job of keeping our confidence up. Any coach can come in here, not look at us, not say hi and act pissed off all day. But he’s doing a great job of communicating with us, talking with us, staying positive and keeping the mood light.”

Pacioretty, on the team keeping its collective chin up: “I’ve never been in a dressing room where the morale is so good at a time like this. That’s what management and the coaches are trying to instill in this team as we face adversity, as every team does.

“I’ve had my own fair share of adversity and I can look back and say 100 per cent that it’s made me a better player and a better person.

“As a team, that’s what we’re going through now. We hope to be a team that wins, and wins often. In the long run, this will help us a lot.”

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