Montreal Canadiens news and notes
- The Canadiens welcomed Hall of Famer Pierre Turgeon to the club’s Ring of Honor prior to Tuesday night’s game versus the Calgary Flames. [Sportsnet (Video) | RDS]
- Turgeon spoke about his daughter Elizabeth, killed at age 18 in an automobile accident, on the eve of the ceremony. [La Presse]
- Turgeon’s journey — from Rouyn to the Hall, by way of the Forum. [Radio-Canada]
- Sean Monahan and Kaiden Guhle are becoming key for this Canadiens team. [The Athletic]
- Kent Hughes says that he sees a new maturity with this year’s squad. [RDS]
- The Habs feel comfortable with Martin St-Louis developing Juraj Slafkovsky. [The Hockey Writers]
- The benefits of separating Nick Suzuki and Cole Caufield are starting to show. [TSN (Video)]
- The Habs are suffering from an offensive drought at 5-on-5. [Radio-Canada]
- Caroline Ouellette’s road to the Hockey Hall of Fame wasn’t an easy one. [Montreal Gazette]
- Instead of a Canadiens preseason game, Quebec City will host two preseason games next year — enticing the Los Angeles Kings, Boston Bruins, and Florida Panthers with five to seven million dollars of funding from the Quebec government. [La Presse]
Around the league and elsewhere
- ‘It’s been a dream’: William Nylander headlines the Toronto Maple Leafs’ rare Sweden trip. [Sportsnet]
- An independent adjudicative panel found that during a fund-raising event in London in June 2018, members of Hockey Canada’s 2018 world junior team violated the governing body’s code of conduct. The decision is currently under appeal. [The Athletic]
- Could the NHL one day implement some NBA-style rules for three-on-three overtime? [Sportsnet]
- No confirmation of team names or a fixed start date yet, but Professional Women’s Hockey League leaders say they’re filling in the blanks as fast as they can. [TSN | CBC]
- Who has the best chance at induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2024? [The Athletic | Daily Faceoff]
- The Western Hockey League’s Swift Current Broncos have indefinitely suspended head coach Devan Praught for an alleged violation of the league’s standards of conduct. [Daily Faceoff]
- Some young NHL skaters deserve to stay in The Show all season, while others would benefit far more from a trip to the World Junior Championship. [The Hockey News]
