From Sportnet.ca:
According to a Montreal report, Pierre Lacroix has upped the ante in his pursuit of Patrick Roy to rejoin the Avalanche. Ruefrontenac.com – a website run by locked-out journalists from Le Journal de Montreal – reported Sunday that Avs president Lacroix has offered Roy the jobs of coach and general manager, and that Roy wants to hire Sylvain Lefebvre and Guy Boucher as his assistant coaches. The Avalanche had no comment. The Denver Post reported last Monday the Avs offered Roy the coaching job, and in an online report that day also said there was a possibility he might get the vacant GM job, too. But the Ruefrontenac.com report, citing sources close to Roy, said Lacroix is offering Roy virtual carte blanche of the hockey operations as a way of one-upping any offer that might come his way from another team – particularly the Montreal Canadiens, whose coaching job is vacant. Bob Gainey is the Canadiens’ GM and is expected to stay in the position.