Montreal Canadiens news and notes
- The Canadiens are wisely biding their time with Patrik Laine. [Sportsnet]
- Kaiden Guhle’s bizarre year. [La Presse]
- The Habs need to find a winger for Nick Suzuki and Cole Caufield. [The Hockey Writers]
- Joe Veleno is making the most of his time with his hometown team. [Montreal Gazette]
Around the league and elsewhere
- The secrets to the Colorado Avalanche’s dominance. [ESPN]
- Ondrej Palat has been traded by the New Jersey Devils, along with a third-round pick in the 2026 NHL Draft and a sixth-round pick in the 2027 NHL Draft, to the New York Islanders for Maxim Tsyplakov. [NHL.com]
- Pittsburgh Penguins forward Bryan Rust receives a 3-game suspension for a hit on the Vancouver Canucks’ Brock Boeser. [The Athletic]
- Why the Toronto Maple Leafs need to start thinking about selling. [The Athletic]
- The Avalanche have signed defenceman Sam Malinski to a 4-year contract with an AAV of $4.75 million. [Sportsnet]
- Thatcher Demko will miss the remainder of the season. [NHL.com]
- Marcus Johansson and Hampus Lindholm were added to Team Sweden’s roster for the Olympics, replacing Leo Carlsson and Jonas Brodin. [NHL.com]
- How the NHL/NHLPA player assistance program works, from consultation to treatment to release. [The Athletic]
- One of the best teams ever iced: How Canada won Olympic women’s hockey gold 20 years ago in Italy. [CBC]
- A week after the Greater Toronto Hockey League (GTHL) launched a lawsuit accusing four member organizations of decades of fraud, those clubs have responded with a public letter that reframes the case as a power struggle over who controls minor hockey in Canada’s largest city. [TSN]
