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He’s not coached a day in the NHL since Tim Tebow Jets Jersey retirement but has racked up impressive successes with the Remparts, winning the Memorial Cup his rookie season. The team on Thursday opened their first playoff round this spring against Drummondville.St. Patrick is how he’d been known upriver in the true centre of the Sidney Crosby Authentic Jersey hockey universe until a memorably disastrous 1995 outing in the nets triggered divorce from the franchise and mid-season trade to Colorado. “It’s my last game in Montreal,’’ a furious Roy vowed to then team-president Ronald Corey after bench boss Mario Tremblay had hung him out to dry, inexplicably slow with the hook as Detroit pumped seven goals past the starter. Tremblay’s un-mercy was perceived by Roy, a proud man, as deliberate humiliation.Wounded feelings between Marian Gaborik Authentic Jersey franchise and franchise-player were only genuinely appeased when Montreal raised Roy’s retired sweater to the rafters in 2008.But Roy’s declaration of finality as a Canadien may have been premature. This latest rumour has definitely got legs. Certainly the image of Roy behind the Montreal bench has lifted a city’s sagging hockey spirits.Yet Quebec City also aspires to NHL inclusion again and Roy would afford instant PR oomph coaching a relocated Henrik Lundqvist Authentic Jersey franchise, a scenario that could come to pass imminently if the league can dump its emergency stewardship of carpet-bagging Phoenix. That would largely depend on committed financing for a new arena rather than pie-in-the-sky plans promoted by the city’s mayor and muscular league wooing by telecommunications giant Quebecor Media, which has endlessly trumpeted its intention to buy an NHL franchise.The pretty provincial capital pines for a club to fill the hole left by the departure Dan Girardi Authentic Jersey of the Quebec Nordiques (to Denver). An eighth Canadian franchise, however, might spell doom for the team Roy currently co-owns in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.“Yes, it would hurt the Remparts,’’ Roy acknowledges. “But at the same time, we know our place in the community Carl Hagelin Authentic Jersey and the community wants an NHL team. As much as it would hurt us, we would be very supportive of that.“The role that we’re trying to play in the community is not to replace the Nordiques. It’s just to help younger players achieve their dream and keep wanting to play hockey. But obviously, an NHL team is an Erik Karlsson Authentic Jersey NHL team. I think we would still have a nice fan base and people would continue to come watch us.’’Some individuals close to Roy suggest he would be happier in an executive position with a new Quebec NHL franchise than coaching in the league, whether Montreal or elsewhere. What he rejects out of hand is being part of an incoming ownership group here.“Ah, I don’t have the money for that. Today, you’d need to put up at least a billion dollars.But being the face of Peyton Manning Youth Jersey that imaginary team, providing the éclat for ownership if not the cash? “Now, that’s a good question.’’Alas, he declines to answer it.
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