Montreal Canadiens news and notes
- The Canadiens are “a team I would strongly consider,” says Anthony Beauvillier. [La Presse]
- Lane Hutson and Kaiden Guhle rank among the top 50 fantasy defencemen. [NHL.com]
Around the league and elsewhere
- Jonathan Toews will play for the Winnipeg Jets next season. [NHL.com]
- After Connor McDavid didn’t fully commit to his future as an Edmonton Oiler, what would a trade for the league’s top player look like? [La Presse]
- McDavid’s is “a number-one priority” for Oilers GM Stan Bowman. [NHL.com]
- The solution for both parties might be a contract with a high cap hit over a short term. [Sportsnet]
- Brad Marchand wants to stay with the Florida Panthers. [Sportsnet]
- Frankie Corrado takes a stab at projecting the AAV’s for this summer’s UFA class. [TSN]
- Nick Bonino, Rich Clune, and Todd Nelson were added to the Pittsburgh Penguins’ coaching staff. [TSN]
- Marc-André Fleury would like to see Sidney Crosby move to a contender rather than play out his career with a noncompetitive Penguins franchise. [La Presse]
- Fleury says he doesn’t expect retirement to hit him until training camps begin. Max Talbot says it’s important to be around others who have gone through the process of breaking the lifelong routine of preparing for a hockey season. [La Presse]
- Eric Robinson signed a four-year extension with the Carolina Hurricanes. [NHL.com]
- Nils Lundqvist and Mavrik Bourque signed one-year extensions with the Dallas Stars. [NHL.com]
- If history is any indication, Sam Bennett winning the Conn Smythe Trophy just before his contract expired, as Jean-Sébastien Giguère and Claude Lemieux had, means it will be a tough negotiation between him and the Panthers before July 1. [La Presse]
- Draft prospect Anton Frondell is likened to a military tank by one member of NHL Central Scouting. [NHL.com]
