Montreal Canadiens news and notes
- Cayden Primeau is a late bloomer for the Habs. [Montreal Gazette]
- Charles Hudon hasn’t spoken to Marc Bergevin yet this summer. [Journal de Montreal]
- Nate Thompson talks about some of his favourite things. [Montreal Canadiens]
- Elite Prospects ranks the Canadiens’ prospect pool sixth in the NHL. [EP Rinkside (Paywall)]
- The Calgary Flames’ decision to part ways with Brett Kulak turned out to be a grave miscalculation. [The Athletic]
- Alexander Romanov and friend:/
Человек собаке друг 🐕 pic.twitter.com/LfxVsmZgLG
— ХК ЦСКА Москва (@hccska) August 13, 2019
Around the league and elsewhere
- Sean Gordon breaks down how the average NHLer spends his paycheque, with the help of Marco Scandella who opens up about the pervasive lack of financial knowledge among the players. [The Athletic]
- Juuso Valimaki’s torn ACL means that the Flames are in the market for defenders. [TSN]
- How come today’s NHLers don’t hit or take slapshots like they used to? [The Athletic]
- Will the arrival of Sergei Bobrovsky be enough to put the Florida Panthers over the top? [ProHockeyTalk]
- Robin Lehner’s new mask expresses a solidarity with others suffering from mental health issues./
#SameHere is an expression which means: I’ve faced challenges in life too. Those challenges have affected my mental health. It’s a sign that we hope will unite the world to once and for all, normalize how universal this topic is. pic.twitter.com/gWsuDIwkMR
— Robin Lehner (@RobinLehner) August 13, 2019
- Brynas IF will feature an integrated intrasquad game for the first time this year./
Want to know why men’s hockey partnerships are important for women’s hockey? Because that’s what the players want.
Brynas’s intersquad game will feature women for the first time. Listen to what it means to Lara Stalder… https://t.co/IRhKA28jTM
— Jared Book (@jaredbook) August 13, 2019
