Friday Habs Headlines: Noah Juulsen will benefit from playing with Matt Taormina

Montreal Canadiens news and notes

• After Jakub Jerabek and Brett Lernout, it’s Noah Juulsen’s turn to learn from Matt Taormina [The Athletic]
• Carey Price is finally coming around to his normal form [RDS]
• Andrew Shaw and Joe Morrow get physical at practice [TVA Sports (video)]
• Our Julian McKenzie joins the Hockey Inside/Out crew [The Gazette (video)]
• For the second time in three weeks, Emerance Maschmeyer was named the CWHL’s goaltender of the week. [CWHL]
• While Artturi Lehkonen coming back is good news, it isn’t going to be easy to fit him into the lineup. [The Athletic]

Around the league and elsewhere

• Would John Tavares be OK being the number two centre in Toronto? [TSN]
• Canada will be announcing their women’s hockey Olympic roster this afternoon.

• Meanwhile, the Americans reportedly cut two key players from their roster. [The Ice Garden]
• Blue Jays prospect Vladimir Guerrero Jr. talks about his dad and the Hall of Fame [Players Tribune]
• There will be no shortage of 2018 NHL Draft prospects at the World Juniors. [NHL]
• The way we look at defencemen may be changing. [Rotowire]
• Ken Hitchcock won his 800th NHL game [Sportsnet]
• The Pegula family - who own the Buffalo Sabres and Bills - have bought the NWHL’s Buffalo Beauts. [The Ice Garden]
• The Swedish women’s hockey champions raise their banner:

• Here are the best new sports logos of 2017 [SportsLogos]