Update Emerges Regarding Martin St-Louis' Departure From the Canadiens

CALGARY – The Canadiens announced on Saturday that head coach Martin St-Louis will be away from the team indefinitely for family reasons. Assistant coach Trevor Letowski will assume head coaching duties during his absence.

»Martin St. Louis, the Hall of Famer who has become an outstanding hockey coach, motivator and communicator, has taken an indefinite leave of absence for family reasons.

David Savard unfortunately let slip that it involves one of St. Louis's three sons. There's no getting that one back and Savard feels bad enough without piling on.

As it happens, I'm also the father of three sons. I once stayed home from a major international event because one of them needed me. Dashing around the world filing stories on the Olympic Games and the World Cup is a dream job but sometimes, life gets in the way.

In the constant tug of war between professional and personal lives in the world of professional sport, it was not always easy to put family first. There was a time not so long ago when it would have been seen as weakness for a coach or a professional athlete to take time to deal with a family issue.»

- Jack Todd, Montreal Gazette

"It's funny because there are a lot of pure journalists, 5-6 pure journalists, real journalists, who called me or texted me on Sunday because they know that I might dig into this information, so they don't dig but they still want to know. (the real story)

What we picked up (as information) on Saturday, was nonsense and full of false rumors.

Yesterday, it started to clear up and this morning I had a few people who all had the same information, from credible sources.

It's not... I think it would need the family's OK to release it (publicly), but it should come out (the truth). That's my... That's all I have to say, it's not the f..."

"We're coming back to Martin St-Louis' absence with Maxime Truman.

"We need to silence the rumors."

"As long as there's doubt, people have questions."

- Via CHOI