Friday Habs Headlines: Jeff Petry — The Specialist
In today’s links, how Jeff Petry has been a bright spot in an otherwise lacklustre campaign for the Habs’ blue-liners, is it time for the Canadiens to tear it apart, and Erik Karlsson a potential Bolt?
Montreal Canadiens news and notes
- Jeff Petry has been quietly effective in this subpar season for the Canadiens. [LNH.com | Google Translate]
- Who are the top 5 prospects in the Habs pipeline? [Sportsnet]
- Is it time for the Canadiens to tear it all apart? [Hockey Inside/Out - Montreal Gazette (Video)]
- In a new poll, 5% of Habs fans still believe the team has a chance to make the playoffs. [Journal de Montreal]
- Which Hab would look best with Jordie Benn’s beard? [Montreal Canadiens (Video)]
- Caroline Ouellette is loving motherhood. [Journal de Montreal]
- Steve Shutt will lead the Canadiens alumni into battle in Chilliwack later this month. [Agassiz-Harrison Observer]
- Chris Nilan is being kept in line on the western trip for the alumni:/
My line mate tonight in Dawson Creek Nancy Chahil, Nancy is a local RCMP officer and she has found a way to keep me out of the penalty box pic.twitter.com/XdaF1VY2tc
— Chris Nilan (@KnucklesNilan30) February 2, 2018
Around the league and elsewhere
- Meet Calgary Flames assistant coach Paul Jerrard, the only black coach in the NHL. [Sportsnet]
- Could Erik Karlsson be a part of Tampa Bay’s path to assembling a dream team this season? [TSN]
- The Pittsburgh Penguins are looking for help down the middle. [TSN]
- For better or for worse, today’s NHL is almost unrecognizable to the one Gary Bettman inherited in 1994. [Sportsnet]
- Did the 2004-05 lockout actually benefit the NHL? [ESPN]
- John Tortorella apparently made his team watch the entirety of Tuesday night’s loss against the Minnesota Wild and track scoring chances. [The Athletic]
- Garth Snow will not trade John Tavares. [The Athletic]
- Where does Jaromir Jagr rank among the NHL’s all-time greats? [ESPN]
- Chris Lee is Team Canada’s most unlikely Olympian. [The Athletic]
- Red Berenson has been awarded the 2018 Hobey Baker Legends of College Hockey Award. [The Michigan Daily]
- The Court of Arbitration for Sport has overturned the IOC-imposed lifetime bans for twenty-eight Russian Winter Olympians, including five members of the 2014 Women’s National Hockey Team. [BBC]/