The Canadiens introduced Saturday morning teaching guide Roger Grillo has most cancers.
“The Canadiens group discovered previously weeks that coach guide Roger Grillo is battling most cancers,” the crew mentioned in an announcement. “Our ideas and prayers are with our colleague and our pal. We stand with him and his family members throughout his battle. We battle for Roger.”
The Canadiens employed Grillo final September forward of the 2024-25 season.
Grillo was an assistant coach beneath head coach Mike Gilligan on the College of Vermont when Canadiens head coach Martin St. Louis was a participant there for 4 seasons, beginning in 1993-94.
“Rog, clearly, he’s been an ideal useful resource and I’ve used Rog my complete life and to have him on the day-to-day it’s been large,” St. Louis advised reporters after Saturday’s morning skate on the Bell Centre forward of a sport towards the Utah Mammoth
(7 p.m., Citytv, SNE, TVA Sports activities).
“He took a while away for apparent causes and now there’s a plan in entrance of him.
“We’re glad to have him right here in the interim, however I believe he’s going to be out and in slightly bit,” St. Louis added. “However we’re considering of him. Stuff like that’s actual, generally it hits nearer. I’ve gone by it with my dad, now one in all my greatest mates. You’re there to assist him and it’s simply a part of life.”
Grillo left for Brown College after St. Louis’s ultimate season at Vermont in 1996-97 and was head coach there for 12 seasons till 2008-09. He joined USA Hockey as a regional supervisor of the American Improvement Mannequin in 2009, earlier than being named to director of participant improvement in 2022.
The 61-year-old has coached at USA Hockey participant improvement camps and likewise lectured at USA Hockey teaching clinics. He was additionally head coach of the 2006 and 2007 U.S. Below-18 Choose groups that competed on the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Event. He served as president of the American Hockey Coaches Affiliation from 2003-05.
“Roger’s an older man,” St. Louis mentioned just a few months after Grillo was employed by the Canadiens. “Now we have a younger employees so Roger’s an older man and has a number of knowledge. I believe he’s helped us in staying organized within the warfare room. Whether or not it’s within the observe and the way we log all the pieces. I really feel we’ve got a number of content material with our ideas, our concepts, or how we do issues. I really feel Roger is form of the jar that holds that … form of retains all of it collectively. That’s what I used to be envisioning. Having a jar that might maintain all of it collectively.”
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