Wednesday Habs Headlines: Marc Bergevin has weathered the storm

Montreal Canadiens news and notes

• Marc Bergevin has weathered the storm, but he hasn’t won anything yet... [Journal de Montreal|Google Translate]
• Bergevin is wise to stay the course despite the unexpected success of the Habs this season. [La Presse]
• Five Finns that the Canadiens might consider drafting this offseason. [Journal de Montreal]
• Claude Julien was not happy with the penalty given to Mikey Reilly for goaltender interference late in the game against the Minnesota Wild. [La Presse]
• Is Jonathan Drouin willing to pay the price? [TVA]
• The cast has been announced for the Canadiens annual skills competition. Joel Armia will take on Shea Weber in the hardest shot competition. [Montreal Canadiens]

Around the league and elsewhere

• Team Finland head coach Jussi Ahokas, a new gold medal around his neck, met his 4-day-old son for the first time at the airport in Helsinki on Tuesday. [Iltalehti (Finnish)]

• Unfortunately for Canada, parity is the new normal at the World Juniors. [New York Times]
• A Q&A with Erkka Westerlund, architect of this Finnish golden hockey generation. [The Athletic]
• Recently acquired Arizona Coyotes forward Nick Schmaltz is out for the season with a lower body injury. [Sportsnet]
• The truck driver in the Humboldt Broncos crash has pleaded guilty to all charges. [Sportsnet]
• Best known for football, Alabama — surprisingly — is a hockey state too. [ESPN]
• Like him or not, Tom Wilson is red-hot right now. [ProHockeyTalk]
• The Philadelphia Flyers tied an NHL record by using their seventh goaltender this season when Mike McKenna started Tuesday night against the Washington Capitals. [ESPN]
• P.K. Subban has reached out to a young teen hockey player facing racial abuse on the ice and in the stands. [ESPN]
• 25% of all players in the QMJHL have been traded this season, is this normal? [Radio-Canada]
• What’s wrong with the Buffalo Sabres, as they plummet in the standings following 17 wins in their first 25 games? [ProHockeyTalk]
• Early projections for Team Canada at the 2020 World Cup of Hockey. [The Athletic]
• On Monday night, two natives of Kusmark, Sweden (population 441), Viktor Arvidsson and Par Lindholm, faced off against each other in an NHL game some 6,000-plus kilometres away. [The Athletic]
• A Vancouver peewee team has made a video to help find their head coach a kidney. [ProHockeyTalk]
• Glenn Healy and Curtis Joseph will be behind the benches for the CWHL All Star Game. [CWHL]