Habs GM Bob Gainey resigns, will continue with team as consultant

Montreal Canadiens general manager Bob Gainey is resigning as the club's general manager after five seasons at the helm.

Gainey will stay on as a consultant to new Habs GM and executive vice-president Pierre Gauthier.

The team is currently in sixth place in the East, with a record of 28-26-6 despite a series of crippling long-term injuries to key players.

The team has been competitive under Gainey during the regular season, with a 241-176-46-7 record, but just an 11-22 won-loss record in four trips to the post-season.

The team has never advanced beyond the second round of the playoffs under Gainey's watch.

Gainey is a Hall of Fame winger who won five Stanley Cups during a 16-year career in Montreal and another as a general manager in Dallas in 1999.