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Originally Posted by esquire
The traditional perception is not really in line with the current reality. It feels like you'd have to go back to the early 90s to find a time when the Canadiens still felt like a predominantly Francophone team, at least as far as the players are concerned.
Bringing it back to Tremblay, his column implies that the "old way" is the ideal state of affairs when the reality is that the Habs' new normal is a team made up almost exclusively of non-Quebecers.
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One of the beefs people like Tremblay have is that back in the day players like Larry Robinson, Bob Gainey and Ken Dryden, all from Ontario, learned to speak French when playing for the Habs.
I guess things have changed and players move around more between teams these days (mercenaries as begratto said) as opposed to being lifers with one team.
There are always a few anglos on the team who already speak French when they arrive (like Paul Byron, who is from Ottawa) but I honestly can't remember the last player who learned to speak French simply by virtue of playing with the Habs.
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