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Montreal Canadiens news and notes
- The Gazette asks its readers: Can this season be called a success if the Habs don’t make the playoffs? [Montreal Gazette]
- Stu Cowan agrees with Marc Bergevin in saying that the season is already a success. [Montreal Gazette]
- The Habs are on the right path, says Alain Sanscartier. [RDS]
- Jose Theodore considers the Habs’ performance this season to be a very pleasant surprise. [Journal de Montreal]
- Regardless, this is no time for the Habs to give up. [Journal de Montreal]
- Marc Bergevin can only watch as the team that he assembled fights for the wild-card. [TSN]
- Nate Thompson has embraced playing in Montreal. [Montreal Gazette]
- The Canadiens will not be signing Ryan Poehling’s college teammate Jimmy Schuldt.
Poehling wished he could have convinced Jimmy Schuldt to sign with the Canadiens but the St. Cloud defenseman has narrowed his list to 4-5 teams and Montreal isn't on it.
— Marc Antoine Godin (@MAGodin) April 2, 2019
Wishing we were in the West
- Justin Williams has played a major role in dragging a “bunch of jerks” towards the playoffs. [Ottawa Citizen]
- Just who are these jerks anyway? [The Athletic]
- How the Columbus Blue Jackets caught fire before running into a pack of bears from Beantown. [Columbus Blue Jackets]
- Sergei Bobrovsky is back to his Vezina-calibre self, and not a moment too soon. [TSN]
Around the league and elsewhere
- After notching only four goals in his last 28 games, Elias Pettersson has vowed to work on his conditioning in the offseason. [TSN]
- After another disappointing season, what’s next for the Minnesota Wild? [ProHockeyTalk]
- The team managed to have a little fun at Joel Eriksson Ek’s expense though.
Your move @ErikssonEk. #April1st | #AprilFoolsDay2019 | #mnwild pic.twitter.com/iEP7dSv8f8
— Minnesota Wild (@mnwild) April 1, 2019
- A Los Angeles-based youth hockey program has suspended fifteen players and three coaches after they were filmed making anti-semitic remarks. [The Athletic]
- Washington Capitals defenceman Michal Kempny is done for the year with a hamstring tear. [ProHockeyTalk]
- Looking back on how much Bob Cole has contributed to hockey during his career. [The Athletic]
- Robin Lehner helped finish one amazing 7-year-old fan’s checklist. [ProHockeyTalk]
- Is this the year a “weird-ass” team wins the Stanley Cup? [The Athletic]
- Drew Doughty just wants this season over with. [Sportsnet]
The latest on North American professional women’s hockey
- With the CWHL imminently folding, the NWHL has announced their intention to expand to Toronto and Montreal. [ESPN | Sportsnet | Globe and Mail]
The NWHL announced today that our Board has approved investment in two Canadian markets. We expect to have teams in Toronto and Montreal this upcoming season and we’ll be pursuing opportunities to work with current stakeholders and partners. pic.twitter.com/iRCxLY51wI
— NWHL (@NWHL) April 2, 2019
- The Canadiens have issued a statement in the wake of the folding of the CWHL. [Montreal Canadiens]
- Many believe that the NHL is key to the future of professional women’s hockey. [31 Thoughts]