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Taxi! GM Pierre Gauthier out in Montreal

Pierre Gauthier

The Montreal Canadiens have parted ways with general manager Pierre Gauthier.

Gauthier, who had been with the club since 2003 and was named GM in 2010, sent out a farewell tweet en francais shortly after the news was announced. The English version read, “Thank you to Mr. Molson and the entire Canadiens organization. Farewell and good luck.”

It’s not surprising that Montreal -- 29-34-14 this season, last in the Eastern Conference -- fired Gauthier, though the timing of the move is. Gauthier was the trigger man on a number of bold personnel decisions this season and was at the forefront of the acrimonious Randy Cunneyworth hire, yet managed to retain his GM gig through 77 regular season games. (Why turf a guy with five games left? We’ll find out soon...)

Canadiens owner Geoff Molson will hold a news conference at 11:45am ET to discuss the move. At the time of writing, no replacement GM had been named.

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