My only issue: When you said it might be okay to leave Lekic unprotected because of his lack of goals and his price might be unattractive to Montreal, remember that a lot of expansion teams pick players in the expansion draft and immediately trade them! So for me Lekic MUST be protected regardless if we want him here again or not (I would personally like him back).

I don’t know if the answer I’m about to give you would satisfy your question of if a person said they definitely didn’t want the coaching job (besides Mariner) but Jimmy Conrad tweeted he wasn’t going to throw in his name because of his disliking of football lines and out of respect to Nicol. I wouldn’t have wanted him anyway.