Montreal Canadiens news and notes
- Michael Hage reveals that he’s now up to 200 pounds after working on his training and especially his diet this off-season. [Journal de Montreal]
- Hage’s puck-handling skills were helped in his youth by a training camp hosted by YouTube star Pavel Barber. [Journal de Montreal]
- Lane Hutson makes the list of NHL.com’s top 20 defencemen. [NHL.com]
- Which Habs players will set new benchmarks in 2025-26? [Montreal Gazette]
- The prospects with the best chances to make the team in the fall. [TVA Sports]
- A day after his team lost in the semifinals of the Living Sisu Hockey League, Ivan Demidov was in Pierrefonds signing autographs for kids. [RDS]
- Pierre Turgeon says he “could write a book” about the trade of Patrick Roy to the Colorado Avalanche. [Montreal Gazette]
Around the league and elsewhere
- The schedule has been released for the men’s Olympic hockey tournament, with the games beginning on February 11. [NHL.com]
- After a year spent dealing with testicular cancer and a leg injury, Dakota Joshua is hoping for a season in Toronto when he can just focus on hockey. [Sportsnet]
- Teri Weiss, the mother of Boston Bruins defenceman Mason Lohrei, is hoping her design of a neck guard will help hockey players, including new NHLers who now have to wear one. [The Athletic]
- Uvis Balinskis spent his day with the Stanley Cup hosting two youth camps in Mārupe, Latvia. [NHL.com]
- On Wednesday, Vitek Vancek paraded the Cup through Havlíčkův Brod, Czech Republic. [NHL.com]
- “You can’t get worse playing college hockey,” Cole Hutson says as he aims for a national championship and a degree with Boston University. [NHL.com]
- The future of Anze Kopitar is the biggest concern for the Los Angeles Kings. [NHL.com]
- The Kings’ top prospects, led by Liam Greentree. [NHL.com]
- Profiling the number-two prospect in the 2026 NHL draft class, Keaton Verhoeff. [Sportsnet]
- Gerard Gallant will coach the KHL’s Shanghai Dragons this season in their home of Saint Petersburg, Russia. [TSN]
