Ducharme calls out Hughes and Gorton and blames them for his firing

"That's the part that hurts me, or disappoints me the most, that I didn't get a chance to sit down with them and tell them how I saw hockey.

If the plan was to lose as many games as possible and have the young guys play, I would have liked that to know because I would have taken a different approach with them. I was trying to squeeze everywhere to get some results. I would see teams that had games cancelled because five of their players had COVID. We had ten, plus eight more who were injured, and we were playing the same..."

"I think that when Marc left, it was already decided. We were seen all the time as the team that went to the Stanley Cup finals and couldn't win. The coaching change sent a message to the fans and the players that we're rebuilding, we're trusting the young guys.

The result was no longer serious, Martin could afford to talk about moral victories. Me, if I spoke of moral victories, I would get destroyed."