Saturday Habs Headlines: Nikita Scherbak has eyes firmly set on reaching the NHL

Montreal Canadiens News and Notes

• After a year of adjustment to the professional game in the AHL last season, Nikita Scherbak believes he is much closer to the NHL than he was a year ago. [NHL.com]
• There are a few areas where the Canadiens clearly need work, and one such is defending their own blue-line as the club allows opposing forwards to challenge Carey Price far too easily. [RDS]
• Stephane Waite had more good things to say about Price's recovery, stating that he has impressed everybody and there is no risk of aggravating the same injury. [TVA]
• There has been a fair share of doom and gloom surrounding the Canadiens over the past month or so, but maybe it's time we all lighten up a little. [Montreal Gazette]
• A couple of Habs hopefuls took to Instagram yesterday - Scherbak to look back on his first year in North America, and Mikhail Sergachev to show off some of his summer training. [Instagram | Scherbak | Sergachev]

Around the League and Elsewhere

• Murray Craven is a veteran of over one thousand NHL games, and is now helping to shape the first ever professional sports team in Las Vegas. [Puck Daddy]
• Max Domi hopes to help a young Arizona Coyotes team get over the hump and back into the playoffs in the 2016-17 season. [TSN]
• The AHL's Milwaukee Admirals are celebrating the 2016 presidential race in the best way sports teams know how - with hockey-playing bobble heads. [Eye on Hockey]
• Fans of the Blue Jays and of EA Sports' NHL franchise will appreciate a new goal celebration being added to the 2017 edition of the game - Jose Bautista's infamous bat flip. [Puck Daddy]