Montreal Canadiens news and notes
- The Montreal Gazette’s Brendan Kelly thinks it’s time to start thinking about trading Carey Price. [Montreal Gazette]
- The Weekend Game Plan crew does their post-mortem on the IceCaps final season in St. John’s. [TSN 690]
- EOTP continues to review the 2016-17 season as well, looking back most recently at the campaigns of Habs rearguard Alexei Emelin and IceCaps defensive forward Markus Eisenschmid. [Emelin | Eisenschmid]
- Zach Fucale has been named Fan Favourite with Montreal’s ECHL affiliate, the Brampton Beast./
Your award for ‘Fan Favourite’ goes to @Fucale31! pic.twitter.com/KuJlZE9Vfi
— Brampton Beast (@BramptonBeast) May 7, 2017
Around the league and elsewhere
- What does grit mean in hockey? Stefan Wolejszo approaches the question from a social science perspective. [Stories Numbers Tell]
- The Nashville Predators were the first team to advance to the second round and they’re now the first club to punch their ticket to the third. [On The Forecheck]
- The Preds paved their way to their first ever conference finals appearance with a series of shrewd trades. [NHL]
- Something important was missing from the HNIC discussion around Sidney Crosby’s return from his recent concussion. [Hockey in Society]
- The Vancouver Canucks have a lot to consider, but trading the Sedins doesn’t make sense. [The Province]
- At the IIHF World Championships, France’s Pierre-Edouard Bellemare (also of the Philadelphia Flyers) made sure the true player of the game received his award. /
Hockey-VM: Bellemare ger bort priset som matchens bästa spelare till Hardy som stod för en makalös insats i målet. #twittpuck #hockeyvm pic.twitter.com/s5TZWQUO2H
— C More Sport (@cmoresport) May 7, 2017
