Montreal Canadiens news and notes
- The NHL announced a new 12-year French-language broadcast arrangement in Canada, with TVA Sports securing rights through a sub-licensing agreement between Rogers Communications Inc. and Quebecor Inc. [Sportsnet | Montreal Gazette | La Presse]
- Amazon announces its NHL schedule, including these seven Canadiens games you’ll only get on streaming. [Montreal Gazette]
- Are the Habs thin at forward? [Radio-Canada]
- How Lane Hutson’s defensive game can continue to grow with the Canadiens. [The Athletic]
- Since 2017, the Montreal Canadiens Children’s Foundation’s Bleu Blanc Bouge Camp has been offering 5th and 6th graders from underprivileged backgrounds in Montreal a memorable summer camp experience. [Montreal Canadiens (Video)]
- Former NHLer Steve Dubinsky rides shotgun on son Aiden’s unlikely journey to the Laval Rocket. [Montreal Gazette]
Around the league and elsewhere
- Making a case for the Ottawa Senators’ next captain. [Sportsnet]
- MacKenzie Weegar says that it’s unfortunate that there are players that don’t want to play for franchises in the country. [TSN]
- Rick Tocchet is ready to get back on track with winger Matvei Michkov after the two had a tenuous relationship in his first season behind the bench with the Philadelphia Flyers. [TSN]
- A tier-list for the league’s top 145 young players. [The Athletic]
- Anton Frondell looks at the Chicago Blackhawks’ potential for growth this season, and his possible role in it, and can’t help being excited. [NHL.com]
- The St. Louis Blues are all in agreement that Robert Thomas is the right player to be their next captain. [NHL.com]
- KalPa Hockey Oy and the University of Jyväskylä are launching a joint research and development project aimed at building a research- and data-based player development model from Junior ice hockey all the way to the professional level. [KalPa (Finnish)]
