Jason Demers publicly Calls Out Team Canada's Failures

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Julien Trekker
January 28, 2024 (4:00 PM)

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While all eyes are turned to the 2018 edition of Team Canada, Jason Demers, a former member of the team at the 2022 Olympics shared a story about an ex-coach that's worth mentioning.

Jason Demers shares shocking story from 2022 Olympics about his former coach Claude Julien. In 2022, Claude Julien was named head coach of Team Canada for the Beijing Olympics. Assistant coach Jeremy Carlton ended up replacing him for a few games after Julien got injured.

Former player Jason Demers made harsh comments on Julien's leadership in a recent podcast.

"The Olympics went good. It's a little frustrating. The coach we had was I don't think fitted for that style of tournament. Who was the coach? Julien. I only say that because we butted heads quite a bit during that tournament.

His strategy wasn't good. Yeah, it's just different. He's just an old school coach and that just doesn't quite work in a tournament like that. And also you get a lot of guys from Europe that play and it's not NHL guys so these guys are used to a different system, they're used to a different way of playing hockey so it's like you have to cater to them.

So he got hurt, an unfortunate accident and I'm glad he's okay now. But Jeremy Carlton stepped in and he was incredible and it immediately shifted in the room and the mood on the ice and everything started clicking."

It's pretty uncommon for players to critique former coaches. Issues between them usually remain behind closed doors.

His coaching style obviously doesn't work with everyone.

Do you think Claude Julien coaching days are over?

As reported on Markerzone - Longtime NHLer Fires Shots at Team Canada for Recent Tournament