Montreal Canadiens news and notes
- By any metric, Phillip Danault has been a huge asset for the Habs. [Montreal Gazette]
- Jesperi Kotkaniemi’s pugilistic performance was a team bonding moment. [Hockey Inside/Out]
- President of the Laval Rocket Mark Weightman will be leaving his post on February 7. [RDS]
- Ilya Kovalchuk is training in Los Angeles under the watchful eye of skills coach Vladislav Kouroedov. [Montreal Canadiens]
- Charles Hudon deserves his All-Star appearance. [RDS]
- Who is Laurent Dauphin, recently exchanged for Michael McCarron? [La Presse]
- Dale Weise is becoming an adopted local. [La Presse]
- Alexander Romanov returned to game action for CSKA Moscow and looked none the worse for wear./
Alexander Romanov joins play to keep the puck in the zone, gets it over to Shalunov who scores from a sharp angle. Romanov gets the assist, his fifth of the season.
Romanov had 14:10 TOI in his first game back after the injury. #TheTsar #Habs #GoHabsGo #CSKA pic.twitter.com/yhzU2bdf9h— Patrik Bexell (@Zeb_Habs) January 23, 2020
Around the league and elsewhere
- Have the Buffalo Sabres become a second rate organization? [Die by the Blade]
- John Tortorella has Frank Seravalli’s vote for coach of the year at the mid-way mark. [TSN]
- Analyzing the Eastern Conference’s wild-card race. [Sportsnet]
- Marc Methot admits that he’s probably done playing hockey. [TSN]
- What to watch out for in the elite women’s 3-on-3 game at All Star weekend. [Sportsnet]
- The most dangerous lead in hockey this year is… all of them. [ProHockeyTalk]
- The owner of the San Jose Sharks has given Doug Wilson a vote of confidence. [ESPN]
- A new postage stamp will commemorate the Colored Hockey Championship, a black hockey league that operated between 1895 and the 1930s. [CBC]
- Team Japan recently became the first Asian team to win a hockey gold medal at an Olympic competition, taking gold at the Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne, Switzerland. [Olympic.org]/
