I’m sorry, I’ve seen and heard enough of this guy. When he was first hired, I was intrigued by his selection. I thought a veteran, seasoned coach would bring stability and responsibility to the Canadiens. Instead, nothing he said came to be. We’re still wondering what a puck possession system is. We’re still praying for miraculous goaltending in order to win. In case the Molsons need further reasons, here are 22 of them to Fire Jacques Martin (some may overlap, sue me):

1- For the number of times that he stood around and watched his team collapse without so much as calling a timeout – Jacques Martin should be fired.

2- For the number of inexcusable, effortless performances that his team put in over the year – Jacques Martin should be fired.

3- For the number of times that he unforgivably had the wrong personnel on the ice at key times – Jacques Martin should be fired.

4- For being a square peg in a round hole – Jacques Martin should be fired.

5- For benching and punishing young players after a couple of mistakes, instead of mentoring and improving them – Jacques Martin should be fired.

6- For allowing young players to regress so badly, to the point of demotion, or sent out of town – Jacques Martin should be fired.

7- For relying on career minor leaguers and journeymen, and even doing that poorly – Jacques Martin should be fired.

8- For failing to make in-game adjustments when it was obvious to even the most passive observer that adjustments were needed – Jacques Martin should be fired.

9- For failing to grasp the realities of the post-lockout NHL – Jacques Martin should be fired.

10- For playing to not lose instead of to win – Jacques Martin should be fired.

11- For stubbornly sticking to his system no matter what (which, by the way is just a crutch for the fact that he can’t get creative and change his ways) – Jacques Martin should be fired.

12- For depending on goaltending, special teams and loser overtime points to attain the “ultimate goal” of making the playoffs (he said it, not me) – Jacques Martin should be fired.

13- For willingly playing awful defensemen 20+ minutes a game in the playoffs, against the league’s #1 attack – Jacques Martin should be fired.

14- For allowing grudges to influence roster decisions, at the expense of the team’s success and development – Jacques Martin should be fired.

15- For being a passionless, monotonous, obsolete, robotic coach – Jacques Martin should be fired.

16- For failing to find ways to motivate his team when games meant the most – Jacques Martin should be fired.

17- For being frequently outcoached, despite being labeled as “one of the smartest, if not the smartest coach in the league” – Jacques Martin should be fired.

18- For having quality hockey teams and a chronic inability to find success in the playoffs – Jacques Martin should be fired.

19- For preaching a puck possession system that resulted in having 4 of the top defensemen in the league in turnovers – Jacques Martin should be fired.

20- For dressing 8 defensemen when the team was starving for offense – Jacques Martin should be fired.

21- Because there HAS to be someone better out there (Guy Boucher?) – Jacques Martin should be fired.

22- Before he completely scuttles the future of this team over the rest of the 3 years on his contract – Jacques Martin should be fired.

And while we’re at it, let’s continue to clean up the mess by kicking Gauthier and Boivin to the curb, too. I know that firing Martin means that Guy Boucher likely comes in behind the bench before he’s ready. But can he be any worse than Martin is?

Can you add to this list?