Saturday Habs Headlines: The Canadiens were not among the dozen NHL teams that reached out to Will Butcher
Your daily links, including passing on a promising prospect, the risk of relying on Carey Price, Scherbak’s parents visit Montreal, and more.
Montreal Canadiens News and Notes
- Many teams were interested in landing free-agent defenceman Will Butcher. The Canadiens weren’t one of them. [TVA Sports | Google Translate]
- Building around Carey Price is not how the Habs should strive to win. [Montreal Gazette]
- Nikita Scherbak is in Montreal to train this summer, and it’s given him a chance to host his parents, visiting the city for the first time. [Canadiens]
- Meet one of the newly acquired players for Les Canadiennes, goaltender Emerance Maschmeyer. [EOTP]
- Sarah Lefort, also from Les Canadiennes, stopped by the Canadiens’ Girls Hockey School. [Canadiens]/
The @LesCanadiennes' Sarah Lefort stopped by the Canadiens Girls Hockey School for a visit. pic.twitter.com/mgRRR2bKFH
— Canadiens Montréal (@CanadiensMTL) August 18, 2017
- Boyd is excited for hockey. [Julie Petry]/
🤗🏒 #IsItOctoberYet @PetryJ @NHL pic.twitter.com/gnXyueRBGW
— Julie Petry (@petryules) August 18, 2017
- Jay Baruchel joins Sirius XM show Hockey Today and talks Goon 2, and the Habs. [Soundcloud]/
Around the league and elsewhere
- Former Canadiens Andrei Markov and Nikita Nesterov are two of 10 players having left the NHL to join the ranks of the KHL. [Championat]
- Take a lesson from the Detroit Red Wings, who did one thing really well last season: the shootout. [The Athletic]
- Ben Bishop’s new Dallas Stars mask is electric. [Daveart]/
- Get the full scoop on how the NWHL draft went down. [The Ice Garden]
- Corsica’s Patreon campaign is back online, and well worth a small recurring donation. [Manny Elk]/
I've re-launched the Corsica Patreon campaign. The official page is here: https://t.co/Rhl9jdCCt9
— manny (@MannyElk) August 18, 2017
- Former Minnesota Gopher hockey player Mike Carman talks about his transition to bandy, a game which at first looks like a mix of ice hockey, field hockey and soccer. [HW]/