Michel Therrien (born November 4, 1963), is the head coach of the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League. Prior to his current stint with Montreal, Therrien had previously coached the Canadiens for three seasons and then the Pittsburgh Penguins.Prior to his coaching career, Therrien played three years as a defenceman in the AHL, compiling a total of 86 points in 206 games and winning the Calder Cup in 1985 with the Sherbrooke Canadiens, on the same team as eventual Hall-of-Famer Patrick Roy.Before coaching in the professional leagues, Therrien was a coach in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, first with the Laval Titan and later for the Granby Prédateurs, with whom the club won the Memorial Cup in 1996, ending a 35-year championship drought in the tournament for a team from Quebec. He is a single parent of two children, Elizabeth and Charles.
Still working as a reporter, he is preparing a new short movie production and working on a feature picture script. He's also involved in a TV project. [May 2006]
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Wrote, produced and directed a short film, a spoof called Psycho Somatique in honor of the 45th anniversary of Alfred Hitchcok's release of his movie Psycho. [January 2005]
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Produced a new short movie, Confession, that is going to be released in march as an opening movie for the Festival Montréal en lumière during the famous Nuit Blanche in Montreal. [February 2008]
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Working as a movie critic in the biggest selling Montreal newspaper, Le Journal de Montréal and working on other TV and movie project as well. [2005]
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Michel Therrien left Le journal de Montreal in November of 2006 to become Editor in chief of a popular magazine published in Canada. [February 2008]
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Le coq ne chantera plus à l'aube
2006
Short
Cow-boy
Samhain
2004
Short
Jacques O. Lanteigne (as Michel S.Therrien)
Familles d'aujourd'hui
2003
TV Series
Host
Lucien Brouillard
1983
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Le coq ne chantera plus à l'aube
2006
Short
Samhain
2004
Short
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Le coq ne chantera plus à l'aube
2006
Short producer
Samhain
2004
Short producer
Composer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Samhain
2004
Short
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Voyage à Walt Disney World
2003
TV Series documentary
Host
Known for movies
Samhain (2004) as Jacques O. Lanteigne
Le coq ne chantera plus à l'aube (2006) as Cow-boy
$600,000
