Montreal Canadiens news and notes
- Desperate times may call for desperate measures, but the Canadiens made the right choice calling up Jacob Fowler. [Montreal Gazette]
- Fowler’s recall isn’t as risky as it may seem. [Sportsnet]
- Martin St. Louis’s goal is to see where Fowler is in his development, not to bring him in as some kind of saviour. [Journal de Montreal]
- It will be interesting to see whether Fowler can give the Canadiens the boost they need when he gets his first NHL start. [TSN]
- Back in the day, goalies didn’t play 150 games in the minors before making the jump to the big leagues. [Journal de Montreal]
- With the recent call-ups of Fowler, Adam Engstrom, and Owen Beck, the age-old question still remains: is this a goaltending issue or a defensive-system issue? [Montreal Gazette]
- Zachary Bolduc says the team will “have to use the energy of the new guys to find ways to win”. [Journal de Montreal]
Around the league and elsewhere
- If the Olympic ice isn’t ready and it’s not safe, then NHL players aren’t going. [CBC]
- Danielle Serdachny returns home to Edmonton for Rivalry Series games that could shape her Olympic future. [Sportsnet]
- History was made this week when four NHL games featured a game-tying goal within the final 15 seconds of the third period. [NHL]
- Sidney Crosby is sitting just five behind Mario Lemieux’s Penguins franchise record. [Pensburgh]
- According to players, the Atlantic Division has the most punchable faces in the NHL. [Toronto Sun]
- Dillon Dube signed a professional tryout deal with the St. Louis Blues’ AHL affiliate. [Sportsnet]
- William Nylander gets demoted. [Sportsnet]
