Montreal Canadiens news and notes
- Should the Habs prioritize Nick Suzuki as the #1 centre this season? [The Hockey Writers]
- Rafaël Harvey-Pinard and Alexandre Alain are making sure that they are ready for hockey’s return. [La Presse]
- Harvey-Pinard and Alain are also catching up with academic pursuits while they await the start of the AHL campaign. [Radio-Canada]
- Hayden Verbeek has left the Slovak Extraliga./
Hayden Verbeek left Banska Bystrica in the Slovak Extraliga. His loan agreement expires on Nov 10th, but he will not rejoin the team for this week’s games, which will be the first for them since coming off quarantine due to an outbreak of Covid. In 4GP he scored twice. #Habs
— Andrew Zadarnowski (@AZadarski) November 5, 2020
Around the league and elsewhere
- How much does a rookie season affect the trajectory of a teenage NHLer going forward? [TSN]
- Bayne Pettinger is a young player agent and a former Hockey Canada manager. He’s also gay, something that he worried about revealing to the hockey world for a long time. [The Athletic]
- What can the St. Louis Blues do to offset the departure of Alex Pietrangelo? [ProHockeyTalk]
- A look at four players who might benefit from their extended layoffs. [Sportsnet]
- Six NHL teams that could be either quite good or quite bad next season, according to Down Goes Brown. [The Athletic]
- When his time in the NHL is over, Alexander Ovechkin would like a swansong with his childhood Dynamo Moscow. [Sportsnet]
- What can sports learn from its time in the bubble? [ProHockeyTalk]/
