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Monday Habs Headlines: Carey Price wins Lionel Conacher Award, named CP male athlete of the year.

Here are your daily links, including Carey Price's new award, Habs prospect news, P.K. Subban's Winter Classic skates, World Juniors news, and more!

By Patrick Scebba
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Montreal Canadiens links:

  • Carey Price wins the Lionel Conacher Award and was named the Canadian Press male athlete of the year. [CBC]
  • Here are five logical reasons why the Canadiens are losing games. [EOTP]
  • Sure, you could say Michel Therrien has made some wrong decisions, but choosing to panic now would be a mistake. [RDS]
  • Mark Barberio was recalled by the Canadiens Sunday afternoon. [Canadiens]
  • Sven Andrighetto will be back in the Canadiens lineup tonight against the Tampa Bay Lightning. He was on a trio with Tomas Plekanec and Tomas Fleischmann at practice on Sunday. Devante Smith-Pelly will be a healthy scratch. [EOTP]
  • P.K. Subban got to show some of the boys his Winter Classic skates on Sunday:
  • Lars Eller played his 400th career NHL game on Saturday night, take a look at some of his career highlights. [EOTP]
  • The IceCaps won a 5-4 thriller on Sunday night against the Marlies. Team Captain Gabriel Dumont scored with 35 seconds left to win the game. [STJ]
  • The Finnish super trio, including former Canadien Saku Koivu, was honoured before the start of the World Junior tournament on Boxing Day. [IIHF]

Around the NHL and elsewhere:

  • Shannon Szabados registered her first career shutout in men's professional hockey. [CBC]
  • Team Denmark beat Team Switzerland on Sunday for their first regulation win in World Juniors history:
  • A member of the United States Navy returned home and surprised his daughters at intermission at the Lightning game on Saturday. [PuckDaddy]
  • Switzerland player, Chris Egli, was suspended three games for his violent hit to Team Sweden's William Nylander. [THN]
  • Jaroslav Halak was placed on the IR on Sunday due to an "upper-body" injury. [PHT]
  • Jake Muzzin was given a match penalty for his "butt-check" to the head of Boyd Gordon. [PuckDaddy]
  • Ryan Getzlaf feels that he is letting the Ducks down this season. [PHT]
  • Evander Kane is the subject of a sex offence investigation, that happened Sunday morning. [BN]
  • Cam Newton has inspired some members of the Team USA World Junior team. What do you think about "the dab" celebration? Is it too much? [EOH]

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