Montreal Canadiens news and notes
- Claude Julien is looking towards his leaders to turn the season around… [Presse Canadienne]
- But is the season salvageable? [TSN]
- Julien BriseBois is an “excellent” replacement for Marc Bergevin [TSN Radio | Michael Farber]
- Worse than booing, it appears Canadiens fans have moved to not caring at all. [The Athletic]
- Darren Dreger looks at the Max Pacioretty trade rumours:/
– talked about Habs planning on staying patient. Asking price for Pacioretty is very high. Some think Nashville will have interest.
— Darren Dreger (@DarrenDreger) January 4, 2018
- The Canadiens had a players-only meeting. Marc Denis talks about what usually happens in those. [TSN Radio]
- There was some news surrounding two Canadiens defenders. Brett Lernout was sent down to the Laval Rocket and Shea Weber is doubtful to return before the All-Star break. [EOTP | Lernout | Weber]
- If Mikhail Sergachev plays for the Lightning tonight, the Canadiens would keep the conditional second-round pick in the Sergachev-Jonathan Drouin trade./
Tomorrow nights game between the #Habs and #Lightning will mark Sergachev’s 40th game played this season. As a result, the conditional 2018 2nd (to TBL) and 2018 6th (to MTL) round draft picks included in the Drouin/Sergachev trade will remain with their respective teams pic.twitter.com/MpkjnzSi1e
— CapFriendly (@CapFriendly) January 3, 2018
Around the league and elsewhere
- How TSN turned the World Juniors into must-see TV [National Post]
- Tough break for the Nashville Predators as Filip Forsberg is out 4-6 weeks with an upper body injury. [On the Forecheck]
- Alex Ovechkin, Steven Stamkos, P.K. Subban and Connor McDavid will be the captains for the NHL All-Star Game [NHL]/
