Montreal Canadiens news and notes
- While teams pluck coaches loaded with experience off the carousel, the longest tenures in the NHL belong to first-time head coaches, with Martin St-Louis included in that group. [La Presse]
- Mats Naslund thinks it’s good that a Canadiens player is on the verge of having a 100-point season, even if he wants to stay the last player to achieve one. [NHL.com]
- When Ivan Demidov scored a power-play goal on Saturday night, he was the fifth player to hit 60 points on the season, the first time Montreal has had that since 1992-93. [TVA Sports]
- Ticket prices rocketed up ahead of Cole Caufield’s return to the Bell Centre as he looks for a 50th goal. [TVA Sports]
- Nick Suzuki doesn’t know why he’s unable to score in shootouts. [TVA Sports]
Around the league and elsewhere
- Patrick Roy was fired by the New York Islanders, replaced as head coach by Pete DeBoer. [NHL.com]
- Porter Martone’s first NHL goal was the overtime winner versus the Boston Bruins to move the Philadelphia Flyers into the third seed in the Metropolitan Division. [NHL.com]
- Evgeni Malkin hit 1,400 career points in Saturday’s blowout of the Florida Panthers. [NHL.com]
- Zach Hyman could miss the rest of the regular season. [NHL.com]
- The new attendance record for women’s hockey in the United States was set in a sellout of 18,006 when the New York Sirens hosted the Seattle Torrent at Madison Square Garden. [NHL.com]
