Montreal Canadiens news and notes
- The Habs’ rebuild is taking shape. [Montreal Gazette]
- Jacob Fowler takes another step toward his destiny. [Sportsnet]
- Playing Fowler wasn’t the hard decision. The hard decision is who sits for Alexandre Texier. [The Athletic]
- Fowler’s success should take nothing away from Jakub Dobes. [Journal de Montreal]
- Samuel Montembeault isn’t giving up on his future with the CH yet. [Journal de Montreal]
- The Toronto Maple Leafs trading Matthew Knies would make sense — even if it’s with the Montreal Canadiens. [Toronto Star]
- Sean Farrell leaves nothing on the table. [RDS]
- How the fans have built the mystique of the Bell Centre. [RDS]
- Cornell men’s hockey freshman goaltender Alexis Cournoyer has been named the Ken Dryden Goaltender of the Year for the ECAC. [Cornell]
Around the league and elsewhere
- The Detroit Red Wings will be without Dylan Larkin and Andrew Copp for two weeks. [NHL.com]
- The Maple Leafs come in at 29th in Scott Wheeler’s 2026 NHL prospect pool rankings. [The Athletic]
- NHL goalie tandem power rankings 2.0: Evaluating all 32 teams in net. [The Athletic]
- Why 4 NHL players still don’t wear visors, and who will be the last standing? [The Athletic]
- A Professional Women’s Hockey League game will soon be on national television in the United States for the first time, the league announced on Thursday. [The Athletic]
- The NHL opts not to make the Ottawa Senators forfeit their first-round pick for a nullified 2021 trade. [Sportsnet | Sportsnet]
- The top 10 NCAA UFAs to watch. [Daily Faceoff]
- Is a new Vancouver Canucks training facility coming to East Vancouver? [CBC]
