Montreal Canadiens news and notes
- Underrated Brendan Gallagher is one of the NHL’s best right wingers. [Montreal Gazette]
- Day 1 with Joël Bouchard was a mixed bag for Nikita Scherbak. [The Athletic]
- Xavier Ouellet is finding his place after a rocky tenure with the Detroit Red Wings. [Sportsnet]
- Nicolas Deslauriers surprised visiting special needs students from the Huntingdon Adult Education and Community Centre after practice on Tuesday. [Montreal Canadiens]
- The Canadiens are joining in the fight against cancer. [Montreal Canadiens]
- Are the media already scapegoating Joel Armia, making him into the scorer that he isn’t? [La Presse]
- Off the 4th line for the first time this season, this is an opportunity for Charles Hudon. [Radio-Canada]
- Renovations to the Montreal Forum were completed on November 2, 1968—an occasion marked with a ceremony featuring some of Quebec’s—and Canada’s—biggest stars. [Radio-Canada]
- A charity watchdog says the Montreal Canadiens Children’s Foundation lacks financial transparency. [CBC]/
Around the league and elsewhere
- 31 Stats: looking at trends around the league from a statistical perspective, including Vegas’s bad luck and the Ducks’ atrocious early season shot differential. [The Athletic]
- Could P.K. Subban be the NHL’s most important player? [Tampa Bay Times]
- Corey Pronman looks back at the 2016 NHL Entry Draft and re-examines his grades of teams’ performances from back then. [The Athletic]
- The Carolina Hurricanes are working on an extension for Sebastian Aho (the Finnish one). [TSN]
- What impact will the smaller goaltender equipment have on scoring? [Sportsnet]
- A look at the NHL’s five most expensive forward lines. [Sportsnet]
- Slava Voynov has officially petitioned the NHL for reinstatement. [ESPN]
- Gary Bettman is planning regular season games in Prague and Stockholm in the future. [ESPN]
- Lauren Boyle, wife of Brian, is the NHL’s Hockey Fights Cancer Ambassador for 2018-19. [NHL.com]
- The Charlotte Checkers had their practice interrupted today, but I think they’re OK with how it happened./
Practice was interrupted today in the most adorable way possible pic.twitter.com/AWJYE5QR37
— Charlotte Checkers (@CheckersHockey) October 31, 2018
