Montreal Canadiens news and notes
- After Jakub Jerabek and Brett Lernout, it’s Noah Juulsen’s turn to learn from Matt Taormina [The Athletic]
- Carey Price is finally coming around to his normal form [RDS]
- Andrew Shaw and Joe Morrow get physical at practice [TVA Sports (video)]
- Our Julian McKenzie joins the Hockey Inside/Out crew [The Gazette (video)]
- For the second time in three weeks, Emerance Maschmeyer was named the CWHL’s goaltender of the week. [CWHL]
- While Artturi Lehkonen coming back is good news, it isn’t going to be easy to fit him into the lineup. [The Athletic]/
Around the league and elsewhere
- Would John Tavares be OK being the number two centre in Toronto? [TSN]
- Canada will be announcing their women’s hockey Olympic roster this afternoon./
Hockey Canada announced a major announcement Friday at 12 PM Eastern, likely to be their women’s Olympic roster.
— Jared Book (@jaredbook) December 21, 2017
- Meanwhile, the Americans reportedly cut two key players from their roster. [The Ice Garden]
- Blue Jays prospect Vladimir Guerrero Jr. talks about his dad and the Hall of Fame [Players Tribune]
- There will be no shortage of 2018 NHL Draft prospects at the World Juniors. [NHL]
- The way we look at defencemen may be changing. [Rotowire]
- Ken Hitchcock won his 800th NHL game [Sportsnet]
- The Pegula family – who own the Buffalo Sabres and Bills – have bought the NWHL’s Buffalo Beauts. [The Ice Garden]
- The Swedish women’s hockey champions raise their banner:/
Banner raising ceremony for the SDHL Champions (Swedish Womens Champions) Djurgården before the mens Djurgården – Luleå game at the Globe Arena. pic.twitter.com/EHqQSfV92f
— Patrik Bexell (@Zeb_Habs) December 21, 2017
- Here are the best new sports logos of 2017 [SportsLogos]/
