Hydro-Québec: Martin St-Louis featured in new ad → https://t.co/e332MPNCYC
– DansLesCoulisses (@DLCoulisses) November 15, 2023
![Best Martin St-Louis quotes in 2023](https://cdn.buminteractif.com/2023/12/Capture-decran-2114-800x448.jpg)
Since Martin St-Louis took office, we’ve become accustomed to his entertaining press briefings.
1: “Everybody’s got to play their game in the game”.
We’re going to be talking about it for a long time. Yes, MSL said it in 2022, but Hydro-Québec brought it back in a commercial in 2023.
I don’t know which Hydro employee thought to show off the Habs’ coach, but hats off to him.
In 2022, he said word for word: “I want them to bring their game inside our game. You can’t just play your game. You have to play the game. You have to bring your game to the game.”
For the purposes of the ad, he’s simplified his quote a little, but the message remains the same. It’s undoubtedly the quote of the last two years.
So far in 2023-2024, we haven’t seen the blue jerseys. How fortunate…
“I don’t know what’s going to happen next year, but I hope the blue jerseys don’t come back.”
With all the organization’s history, the Habs shouldn’t have to wear this jersey →https://t.co/Y1SegnzncI
– DansLesCoulisses (@DLCoulisses) February 11, 2023
He also said that “it’s the hockey gods who are the cause of the defeats”.
To sum up what he said, the Habs are a glorious organization and they’ve always won wearing red and white. When the sports gods see the team in blue, they put a curse on the team.
If only that were the case…
In 2023-2024, the Habs won’t be making the playoffs, although as of today, they’re still a few points away.
It’s off to a great start to the season → https://t.co/WHtu7sz3H0
– DansLesCoulisses (@DLCoulisses) September 20, 2023
We’re further along.
You have to take care of the baby. But a child is more autonomous: he’s able to make his bed or brush his teeth. – Martin St-Louis
While the Bruins, Leafs, Panthers, Lightning and Red Wings are all adults in the Atlantic section, the Habs haven’t even reached adolescence yet.
4. Chairs, chairs, that’s no reason to get hurt
For example, you shouldn’t be afraid to take someone else’s place in the line-up.
“If you’re going to encourage a player to steal a chair, he might not be the right player”.
This is very true and Slafkovsky is proof of that. He didn’t start the season in the top-6 and wasn’t necessarily performing well.
When the opportunity arose, he went on the first trio with Nick Suzuki and Cole Caufield, and barring a catastrophe, he’s here to stay.
The analogy of stealing chairs reminds me a lot of the word “opportunity”. A player must do everything in his power to steal a chair when the opportunity presents itself. This is the case in all professional sports.
I understand that he’s been in the hockey business all his life, but even in everyday life, he manages to bring hockey back into the conversation.
In his everyday life, the Habs coach compares everything to hockey → https://t.co/Kty33wijnM
– DansLesCoulisses (@DLCoulisses) September 26, 2023
You have to understand the game up front. You have to know what’s going on back and how fast you have to execute your moves. – Martin St-Louis
Let’s hope 2024 brings us even better ones.
Extension
For the purposes of this exercise, I’ve only chosen five MSL quotes, but I could have chosen more.
Here are two other quotes from the coach that didn’t make the top-5:
Martin St-Louis uses Waze to talk about Juraj Slafkovsky’s progress → https://t.co/1qRVKYuYwd
– DansLesCoulisses (@DLCoulisses) November 6, 2023
“If you give up on yourself then that’s the day I’ll consider taking you out of the lineup & start to give up on you. A player who doesn’t give up on himself, you see it in his attitude, his work ethic, his level of engagement.” – Coach Marty today on his belief in Josh Anderson. pic.twitter.com/61V8KDcc0x
– /r/Habs (@HabsOnReddit) December 15, 2023