Thursday Habs Headlines: A busy trade deadline day for the Canadiens
Your daily links, including analysis of Montreal’s trades, P.K. Subban is back in town, Brendan Gallagher gets pulled over and more.
Montreal Canadiens News and Notes
- Trade deadline has come and gone, and we grade Marc Bergevin’s transactions. [HabsEOTP]
- Steve Ott was traded overnight and already seems excited to be part of the Canadiens. [Montreal Canadiens]
- The prices for higher end talent were too steep for Bergevin, who instead focused on depth moves. [La Presse]
- Indeed, the Habs’ GM could make a big splash, but it’ll have to wait. [RDS]
- Brendan Gallagher joined Conor McKenna and our very own Marc Dumont to talk about trade deadline day. [TSN 690]
- The interview may have lasted longer but logistics got complicated. [Marc Dumont]/
Unfortunately our interview with Gallagher was cut short because the police pulled him over.
— Marc Dumont (@MarcPDumont) March 1, 2017
- David Desharnais addressed media on Wednesday as he left Montreal to join the Edmonton Oilers. [Montreal Canadiens]
- The result of the day’s deals was a bigger, gritter roster. [TSN]
- The players acquired on Wednesday aren’t marquis players, and the Canadiens will hope they will all benefit from a change of address. [Sportsnet]
- It’s a new calendar month, so if you’ve not already, get your March Habs calendars here. [Montreal Canadiens]
- In the AHL, Chris Terry was voted player of the month of February. [St. John’s IceCaps]
- The Windsor Spitfires have selected Habs’ prospect Jeremiah Addison as co-captain of the team. [Windsor Spitfires]/
NEWS: Spitfire players select @JChat796 & @addy1zero as co-captains. Full story to follow.
— Windsor Spitfires (@SpitsHockey) March 1, 2017
- Les Canadiennes’ Kim Deschênes shows off her top shelf backhand shot. [Montreal Canadiens]/
Around the League and Elsewhere
- Go behind the scenes and look at all the players who come together to make a deadline day happen. [Sportsnet]
- P.K. Subban is back in Montreal, as the Nashville Predators will face the Canadiens Thursday night. Subban spoke to the press a day before his emotional return and he’s as smooth as ever. [Montreal Gazette]
- Subban is now in control of his narrative. [Sportsnet]
- Now, it’s official, the Las Vegas Golden Knights are really an NHL team as of March 1st. [NHL]
- Joe Juneau has done a lot for hockey in the great white North since retiring. [NHL]
- Pegula Sports Entertainment issued a statement about recent rumours. [Rob Sanderson]/