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Montreal Canadiens news and notes
- With just a 2.5% chance of winning, “Team E” hit on its one surviving combination in last night’s 2020 NHL Draft Lottery, giving all the qualification-round teams — the Canadiens among them — a second life in their quest to land Alexis Lafrenière at first overall:
After balls 9-10-2 were drawn for the No. 1 overall pick in tonight's NHL draft lottery, the #sens owned the most potential winning combinations on the last ball: OTT (x4), DET (x2), ANA (x1), NJ (x1), BUF (x1), Team A (x1), Team E (x1).
— Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) June 27, 2020
- See the actual drawing of the numbers that the NHL doesn’t believe you’d want to see live. [NHL.com]
- The unlikely story of one the greatest draft steals: Brendan Gallagher. [The Score]
- Claude Julien hopes the players are smart about their own health when they all reconvene. [NESN]
- They will have to, in fact, because the NHL isn’t enfocing any quarantine rules before players reach the hub cities. [Times Free Press]
- Jesperi Kotkaniemi is back in Montreal. He’s recovered from his spleen injury and is preparing to help the team in the post-season. [The Athletic]
- See more of the Habs players currently working toward that same goal:
- Three other Habs are big threats to the Pittsburgh Penguins’ hopes of getting through qualification. [PensBurgh]
- The Canadiens are going on a virtual run, and you can join them. [Canadiens.com]
Around the league and elsewhere
- Winnners and losers of the draft lottery. [ESPN]
- Now that the lottery is (sort of) complete, the NHL’s top priority is getting the players to North America and their NHL cities for Phase 3 training. [NHL.com]
- Regular EOTP podcast guest Gillian Kemmerrer caught up with Nikolai Khabibulin to discuss this year’s top goaltending prospect, Yaroslav Askarov. [The Caviar Diplomat]
- In the wake of the lawsuit launched against the CHL, the league will allow an independent panel to review its approaches to dealing with abuse. [Sportsnet]
- Former WHL player Brad Hammett is adding his name to that lawsuit after suffering abuse from teammates. [TSN]
- CBA negotiations running concurrently with return-to-play discussions include more protections for players’ salaries in the short term. [Sportsnet]
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