{"id":814595,"date":"2026-07-20T17:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814595\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T17:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:30:08","slug":"montreal-canadiens-hire-derek-lalonde-as-associate-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814595\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens hire Derek Lalonde as associate coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Montreal Canadiens announced on Monday that Derek Lalonde has been hired as an associate coach, joining Martin St. Louis\u2019s staff. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lalonde was recently let go as one of the assistant coaches with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> after he spent one season under Craig Berube, who was fired in May with new management coming in. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lalonde spent two seasons as head coach of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/detroit-red-wings\/17\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/detroit-red-wings\/17\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a> (2022-24), where the team went 89-86-23 in 198 regular-season games as the team missed the playoffs both years in his tenure. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 53-year-old also spent four seasons as an assistant coach with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/tampa-bay-lightning\/14\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/tampa-bay-lightning\/14\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a>, helping the team win back-to-back Stanley Cup titles in 2020 and 2021. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadiens are coming off a campaign where they made it to the Eastern Conference Final before losing in five games to the eventual Stanley Cup champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/carolina-hurricanes\/12\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/carolina-hurricanes\/12\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Canadiens announced on Monday that Derek Lalonde has been hired as an associate coach, joining Martin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,78846,448,82],"class_list":["post-814595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal-canadiens-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-8","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}