Friday Habs Headlines: Andrew Shaw excited about playing alongside Shea Weber

Montreal Canadiens News and Notes

• Newly-acquired forward Andrew Shaw is looking forward to joining the Canadiens this season, and points to wearing the same uniform as Shea Weber as a big reason why. [NHL.com]
• St. John's Ice Caps head coach Sylvain Lefebvre has been working closely with the Canadiens' young hopefuls at development camp - check out his comments on how things have been going. [Ice Caps]
• Mikhail Sergachev and Michael McCarron became well introduced to each other, getting caught up in the heat of competition at development camp yesterday. [Twitter]
• Meanwhile, talk of Sergachev pushing for a spot on the Canadiens' blue-line as an 18-year-old is amping up as the rookie continues to impress:

  — Eric Engels (@EricEngels) July 7, 2016

• Sergachev certainly showed why he was made the ninth-overall pick in the draft at development camp this week, looking every bit of a future NHL star. [Canadiens.com]
• More from development camp - a few fellow Habs prospects showed Nikita Scherbak why you never leave your phone unattended. [Instagram]
• Scherbak, of course, had a very successful showing at camp as he and Team A came out victorious on day five. [Twitter]
• Still feeling the effects of the P.K. Subban trade are patients at the Montreal Children's Hospital, who had to be assured they will still get visits from their hero. [Montreal Gazette]
• Check out the Canadiens' prospect depth chart, which received a needed boost on the blue-line at the 2016 NHL Entry Draft. [TBT]
• Montreal Canadiens' goaltending coach Stephane Waite will join the Team Canada staff as a goaltending consultant for the upcoming World Cup of Hockey. [Twitter]

Around the League and Elsewhere

• P.K. Subban will have no issue settling into the Nashville Predators defensive group. In fact he looks like the perfect fit. [Tennessean]
• The 2016-17 CWHL regular season schedule has been announced, with les Canadiennes taking on the Brampton Thunder to open the season on October 15. [Twitter]
• Kacey Bellamy of USA Hockey and the NWHL's Boston Pride pens a letter to her younger self as she reflects on the journey that brought her to where she is today. [TPT]
  
• Hockey fans and journalists alike often disagree over whether a player is "elite" or not, and there's much more than just the player's ability that can influence our belief one way or the other. [Today's Slapshot]
• Building and operating advanced stats sites like War on Ice, which we have become so reliant on, is no easy task. [Vice Sports]
• The trade of Taylor Hall to the New Jersey Devils is not a sign of Hall failing the Edmonton Oilers, but rather of his former team failing him. [Edmonton Journal]
• There is little doubt that there is a lot wrong with the way junior hockey is run in Canada, and the CHL may be beyond repair. [Fear the Fin]
• The American Hockey League held it's annual Board of Governors meetings this week, and you can check out all the news on their website including new punishments for fighting. [The AHL]
• Need to get rid of a jersey after the trade of Subban to Nashville? Lighthouse Hockey has a solution! [LH]