Montreal Canadiens news and notes
- Mike Matheson has become the defenceman most used versus elite opponents in the entire NHL. [La Presse]
- No one has been more clutch than Cole Caufield this NHL season. [TVA Sports]
- Bill Guerin answered questions about his roster makeup for Team USA, speaking about Caufield, Lane Hutson, and others who weren’t named. [TVA Sports]
- Montreal got quality goaltending and timely penalty-killing to beat the Buffalo Sabres, things that had been missing for much of the year. [The Athletic]
- A three-game winning streak allows the Canadiens to play their final two games before the break with a lot of the pressure they’d felt in January lifted. [RDS]
Around the league and elsewhere
- With seven consecutive power plays to end the game, the Tampa Bay Lightning overcame a 5-1 deficit outdoors in Tampa to beat the Boston Bruins 6-5 in a shootout. [NHL.com]
- Thirty-one points in 13 games earned Nikita Kucherov player of the month honours. [NHL.com]
- Fraser Minten of the Bruins was named the NHL’s rookie of January. [NHL.com]
- The rules regarding roster moves during the Olympic break. [La Presse]
- The Oilers placed Calvin Pickard on waivers. [Sportsnet]
- Not all the facilities of the Olympic rink in Milan will be completed when the women’s tournament begins on Thursday. [Radio-Canada]
- The rink itself will reportedly be ready. [Sportsnet]
