Montreal Canadiens news and notes
- Niko Mikkola fired a slapshot down the ice in the dying seconds of Montreal’s 4-2 win, sparking the brawl that followed the game’s final whistle ad setting the tone for Tuesday season-series finale. [TVA Sports]
- Lane Hutson’s offence is elite, but what Juraj Slafkovský marvels at is the rookie’s ability to win one-on-one battles on defence. [La Presse]
- Hutson is authoring one of the best offensive seasons of all time from a Canadiens defenceman. [TVA Sports]
- Checking in on Hutson and the other Atlantic Division rookies. [NHL.com]
- The jovial mood at a team dinner on Saturday night helped the players take their minds off all the losing and reset for the game in Florida. [RDS]
- Jacob Fowler’s NCAA season, and potentially his collegiate career, came to an end with loss to Denver in the regional final. [BC Eagles]
Around the league and elsewhere
- Alexander Ovechkin scored goal number 890 to get to five goals from a new NHL goals record. [NHL.com]
- The goalies of the NHL are rooting for Ovechkin to break the record … as long as it’s not against them. [NHL.com]
- Connor McDavid is expected to return to the Edmonton Oilers’ lineup before the end of the regular season. [NHL.com]
- Kirill Kaprizov and Joel Eriksson Ek returned to full practice for the Minnesota Wild. [TSN]
- NCAA champion Marianne Picard won the title after a torn ACL several years ago earned her this one additional season of collegiate hockey. Watching that surgery at it happened helped inspire her career path in biomedical engineering. [La Presse]
