Montreal Canadiens news and notes
- Charlie Lindgren is embracing a mentorship role at the Warren Strelow National Team Goaltending Camp. [Montreal Canadiens]
- Jesperi Kotkaniemi’s busy summer will take him next to a charity game where he will hit the ice next to a “flash”y winger and the embodiment of “sisu.” [Montreal Canadiens]
- Happy birthday, Shea Weber!/
Bonne fête, Shea! 🎂
Happy birthday Shea! #GoHabsGo pic.twitter.com/6gsJEKXIDg
— Canadiens Montréal (@CanadiensMTL) August 14, 2018
- Katia Clement-Heydra took to the ice at Les Canadiennes’ hockey camp yesterday. [Les Canadiennes]/
Notre deuxième invitée spéciale de la journée est arrivée! / Our second special guest of the day has arrived! 👊🏒
👋😊 @Katiaa19! pic.twitter.com/vWpi9FBI51
— Les Canadiennes (@LesCanadiennes) August 14, 2018
- All the stars will be there at Max Pacioretty’s charity golf tournament. [Montreal Canadiens]/
Canadiens owner Geoff Molson, general manager Marc Bergevin, as well as head coach Claude Julien and his coaching staff are pleased to confirm their presence at Max Pacioretty’s golf tournament, and are very proud of their captain’s involvement in the community.
— Canadiens Montréal (@CanadiensMTL) August 14, 2018
- All Nikita Scherbak needs to succeed are teammates with skill. [Canadian Tire Pro League]/
Letang to Brassard to Scherbak and it’s 7-5 for David Forest Financial Services pic.twitter.com/wW8TygZJzq
— Canadian Tire Pro League (@CanTirePro) August 14, 2018
Around the league and elsewhere
- I’m not Connor McDavid: Ben Meisner documents how mental illness and the realities of minor hockey turned his dream into a nightmare. [The Players’ Tribune]
- Val James: the first African-American to play in the NHL. [The Hockey Writers]
- Jamaican-born Dallas Stars prospect Jeremiah Loewen is used to being the underdog. [NHL.com]
- How goaltending is evolving yet again, away from the movement-intensive RVH and towards the more conservative lateral release. [The Athletic]
- The Nashville Predators have signed Ryan Ellis to an 8 year extension with an AAV of $6.25 million per season. [On the Forecheck]
- Using Emmanuel Perry’s NHL equivalency (NHLe) metric to chart the progress of the San Jose Sharks’ defensive prospects. [Fear the Fin]
- Introducing the mediocrity index, a measure of which teams have been neither too good nor too bad. [End2End Hockey Blog]
- Some T25U25s wrap up, others just get started: Matchsticks and Gasoline (#1: Johnny Gaudreau), The Cannon (#16: Elvis Merzlikins), Lighthouse Hockey (#14: Parker Wotherspoon), Silver Seven (#19: Nick Paul), Second City Hockey (#18: Blake Hillman), Copper and Blue (#17: William Lagesson), Broad Street Hockey (#15: Isaac Ratcliffe), Pension Plan Puppets (#15: Trevor Moore), Litter Box Cats (#23: Anthony Greco), Mile High Hockey (#11: J.T. Compher), and Die by the Blade (#14: Lawrence Pilut)./
