Montreal Canadiens news and notes
- Michael Chaput is seizing his shot with the Habs. [Montreal Gazette]
- Martin Biron says that Claude Julien was sending a message by pulling Antti Niemi and sending in Carey Price after the seventh Minnesota Wild goal. [La Presse]
- The Canadiens need to do something about their catastrophic special teams. [Journal de Montreal]
- Corey Pronman gives his final grades for how teams performed in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft. [The Athletic]/
Around the league and elsewhere
- Are NHL teams finally realizing that bunkering in the third period invites doom? [TSN]
- How has Ken Hitchcock changed the Edmonton Oilers? [Sportsnet]
- A brief history of players being told that they wouldn’t be traded… and then were traded. [The Athletic]
- The Toronto Maple Leafs’ first ever “mom’s trip” means something special to Auston and Ema Matthews. [The Athletic]
- How Alex Ovechkin and Steven Stamkos have changed how power plays are run across the league. [NHL.com]
- Kaapo Kakko is looking to win for the Finns at the World Juniors. [IIHF.com]
- A Texas teenager has been suspended indefinitely by USA Hockey for using his stick to attack a defenceless prone opponent. [Yahoo!]
- You can’t even be mad:/
Penalty: Barclay
Two minutes for holding the stick #stlblues pic.twitter.com/DIwKLS72Av— St. Louis Blues (@StLouisBlues) December 13, 2018
