Sunday Habs Headlines: Conversations between Claude Julien and Alex Galchenyuk paying dividends as season winds down

Montreal Canadiens news and notes

• Claude Julien is seeing Alex Galchenyuk at full health for the first time, and the coaching he offered — and also that Galchenyuk requested — is showing up in a rapidly evolving two-way game. [La Presse | Google Translate]
• Carey Price may be back between the pipes as early as next week:/

Carey Price wants to come back next week. Probably not Monday. It's going to be a day-to-day process after. @CanadiensMTL #tvasports

— Renaud Lavoie (@renlavoietva) March 18, 2018

• Several Canadiens players paid homage to Tomas Plekanec by wearing his trademark turtleneck in the pre-game warm-up last night:/

🐢👕 #colroulé #turtleneck #GoHabsGo pic.twitter.com/K09l8r7E4m

— Canadiens Montréal (@CanadiensMTL) March 17, 2018

• The home of the late J. Ambrose O’Brien, former owner of the Canadiens, has been turned into a hotel. [Ottawa Citizen]
• The Laval Rocket may not be having much success on the ice, but they have been having a significant impact in the community in their inaugural season. [AHL.com]
• Ryan Poehling’s between-the-legs goal was voted the top play in the NCHC this season. [NCHC]/

Around the league and elsewhere

• Why Nikita Kucherov shouldn’t be in the Hart Trophy conversation. [Sportsnet]
• A game-by-game breakdown of how William Nylander has been performing in the centre position. [Pension Plan Puppets]
• Looking back not so long ago to when Renla Hovi rushed back to Winnpeg after competing in the Olympics to assist on the University of Manitoba’s winner in quadruple overtime:/

After helping Finland win the women's hockey bronze in #PyeongChang2018, @VenlaHovi opted to skip the closing ceremonies and fly straight home to Winnipeg, where she assisted on the @umbisons' game-winner in 4OT to move on to the @USPORTSca Championship. #ChampSZN pic.twitter.com/x71HCPud8V

— Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) March 16, 2018