Montreal Canadiens news and notes
- Ken Dryden thinks that Carey Price should have his number retired. [RDS]
- The legends of the 70s were reunited at Serge Savard’s golf tournament. [La Presse]
- Guy Lafleur was naturally on everyone’s minds. [Journal de Montreal]
- Igor Larionov sees a big future for Bogdan Konyushkov. [RG.org]
- William Trudeau feels like a veteran at age 21. [RDS]
- The five likeliest breakout candidates among the Habs for 2024-25. [The Hockey Writers]
- The San Jose Barracuda announced that the team has signed forward Colin White to an AHL contract for the 2024-25 season. [San Jose Barracuda]
Around the league and elsewhere
- The Tampa Bay Lightning have begun a multi-stage sale process that will value the team at close to $2 billion. [Sportsnet]
- The St. Louis Blues tendered offer sheets to the Edmonton Oilers’ Philip Broberg and Dylan Holloway. [Daily Faceoff]
- How the Oilers made themselves susceptible to St. Louis’s move. [The Athletic]
- Can the Oilers afford to match the offer sheets for Broberg and Holloway? Should they? [The Athletic | Sportsnet]
- Looking back at NHL offer sheets in the salary-cap era. [Sportsnet | Daily Faceoff]
- A new lawsuit is challenging the NCAA’s ban on CHL players. [Sportsnet]
- Auston Matthews getting the ‘C’ with the Leafs was inevitable, but the timing leads itself to questions. [Sportsnet]
- The Nashville Predators traded forward Cody Glass, along with two draft picks, to the Pittsburgh Penguins for forward Jordan Frasca. [Daily Faceoff]
- Denmark’s men’s senior hockey team will have all six players who played in the NHL in 2023-24 back for the final qualification tournament for the 2026 Winter Olympics. [Daily Faceoff]
- Five players accused of sexually assaulting a woman after a London, Ontario gala celebrating their 2018 world junior hockey win will stand trial beginning in September 2025. [CBC]
- Rosen, the longtime voice of the New York Rangers on MSG Networks, announced Tuesday, one day after his 77th birthday, that this season would be his last in the broadcast booth. [NHL.com]
