See also: Michel Bergeron

Michel Bergeron , known as the Tiger, was born with Montreal with the Quebec on June 12th, 1946. After a youth dedicated to the sport, Bergeron finally decides to become trainer of hockey at the end of the Sixties. In the Seventies, after important successes with team minor of the area of Montreal, Michel Bergeron sees himself entrusting the role of trainer-chief of the Draveurs of Three-Rivers, declining with the classification. The arrival of Bergeron will however not achieve the unanimity immediately among amateurs trifluviens, insulted to see Bergeron replacing Claude Dolbec, true icon of hockey in Mauricie. In spite of certain difficulties of adaptation, Draveurs and their fougeux trainer will not be long in becoming a power in LHJMQ. Besides they will gain the Cut of the President in 1977-1978 and 1978-1979.

The " Tigre" with the bar of the Scandinavian ones

In 1980, Maurice Fillion, managing director of the Scandinavian of Quebec, decides to succeed itself the trainer-chief Jacques Demers and called upon Bergeron, one of the best trainers juniors in Canada, to take the role of assistant. After only 6 matches, the Scandinavian ones test big problems. Fillion then decides to entrust the reins of the club to its new assistant. Bergeron must however have patience 11 matches to enjoy its first victory, Fleurdelisés being then engulfed in a deep lethargy. In 1981-1982, the Scandinavian ones are qualified for the second time of their history for the eliminatory series. Their adversaries in first round are null other than the Canadian of Montreal, which had finished this year at 23 points in front of the Scandinavian ones. Nevertheless the men of Bergeron will cause one of the greatest surprises of the sporting world Québécois by eliminating the men from Bob Berry in overtime of the fifth and decisive match by a goal of the plague of Scandinavian the Dale Hunter. The men of Bergeron will not cease surprising by reaching the finale of the Broken check Conférence, lowering house only in front of the possible champions of the Coupe Stanley, the Islanders of New York. In 1984, the Scandinavian ones and the Canadians find themselves. At the time of the sixth match, whereas the Inhabitants of Quebec risk elimination, the spirits warm up at the end of the second period. General rioting bursts. From return in third, the period did not even begin that the blows rain again. Bergeron must even be defended by Jimmy Mann, the strong man of the club, when the right winger of CH, and sworn enemy of Bergeron, Mario Tremblay, tries to make him a bad party. The match will turn finally to the advantage of Montréalais which will remove the honors of the series in 6 matches. Bergeron and its team will take possibly their revenge at the time of the series of spring 1985, when Peter Stastny marks the victorious goal in prolongation at the time of the seventh match to the Forum of Montreal. After a failure in series of 1986 vis-a-vis Hartford, the Scandinavian ones find the Canadians in semi-final of conference of the series 1987. At the time of the fifth match, the referee of office for match, Kerry Fraser, refuses a goal which had all appearances to be valid to the defender Alain Côté. Bergeron will prick a holy anger which will not change anything with the decision Fraser. Incompetent to go back some, fleurdelized are eliminated in 7 matches…

Michel Bergeron at Rangers

At the time of bases of the LNH 1987, Marcel Aubut, president of Scandinavian, concludes with the managing director from Rangers from New York Phil Esposito, the exchange of its trainer. Bergeron thus leaves the Scandinavian ones and finds chrz Rangers with the key a 3 year old contract. In spite of 2 good seasons with Blue Shirts, Bergeron will never manage really to cohabit with Esposito, recognized like of torture of trainer. It is loosely congédié with 2 matches of the end of the regular calendar 1988-1989. After being become full-time chronicler on the waves of CKAC Télémédia, Bergeron receives a telephone of Martin Madden, director-manager of the Scandinavian ones, who will change his life and will make him live one year of hell…

Bergeron of return to the Scandinavian ones

At the beginning of the season 1989-1990, all the hopes are allowed at the Scandinavian ones. The club has just put under contract the superstar Guy Lafleur, she also obtained the first choice with the fishing out, jettant its reserved on the attacker Owen Nolan. Despite everything its hopes, fleurdelized know one terrible season. The catastrophic results follow one another at frightening intervals. The team beats the record of 26 consecutive matches without victory. Moreover, the Scandinavian ones gain only 12 matches and add up only 31 points with the classification. The managing director Martin Madden is dismissed and replaced temporarily by Maurice Fillion. At the summer 1990, Marcel Aubut chooses not to renew Fillion in his functions and chooses Pierre Pagé. This last congédie Bergeron and replaces it by Dave Chambers.

Michel Bergeron, analyst

With the autumn 1990, Michel Bergeron is struck of a severe heart attack. The career of Bergeron behind a bench seems from now on finished, but in June 1992, when Pat Burns gives her resignation as trainer-chief of the Canadian of Montreal, the name of Michel Bergeron re-appears. But the managing director of the Canadians, Serge Savard, worries about the too fragile heart of Bergeron and Jacques Demers prefers to him. At the time of the season 1993-1994, the Scandinavian ones miss the series and Pierre Pagé, then managing director and trainer of Scandinavian is put at the door. The new managing director is the friend and ex-agent of Bergeron, Pierre Lacroix. The name of Bergeron returns then on all the lips of the amateurs of Québécois hockey. But Lacroix, strongly influenced by Marcel Aubut says one, drops his friend Bergeron and chooses finally the trainer-chief of the club-school of Scandinavian, Marc Crawford. Depressed, Bergeron loses its last chance to return behind a bench of the National league. It is turned over then towards the media since it had already ensured the analysis of the matches of the Canadians to the antenna of the network VAT of 1990 to 1994. Moreover, during an emission of 110%, Michel Bergeron taught us that at that time Titan of Laval, property of the Morissette brothers, had offered to him to become trainer-chief and managing director and that after blackberries reflections, it had to decide to decline the offer. In 1995, it replaces that which became since its good friend Mario Tremblay with the analysis of the matches of the Canadians on the network TQS. In 1998, Radio-Canada calls upon its services to replace the worthy Gilles Tremblay with the analysis of the matches of the Soirée of Hockey. It is as analyst of the matches of hockey that Bergeron will cover the Olympic Games of Salt Lake City. In 2002, at the end of the contract with the SRC, Bergeron chooses to sign with TQS to analyze the matches of the Canadians and to discuss every evening with 110%. It is thus since September 2002 that Bergeron follows the activities of the Canadians as debator of the sporting emission of the network TQS. It takes again also the collar at the time of the World cup of Hockey 2004 for the account of Radio-Canada.