The Habs are going to be without a pair of core players for the foreseeable future following some announcements from the team on Friday afternoon. Meanwhile, the team also announced that Jared Davidson has been recalled from Laval.
It was a light week on the schedule for Laval who only played twice, the second game kicking off a four-game road trip. However, they put forth a pair of strong efforts to take both games and move into a share of first place in the division.
The Habs haven’t gotten off to a great start to the month of November and lost two of their three games this past week. However, with both of those losses coming after regulation, they still managed a solid four points in the standings to stay atop the division.
Laval returned home last week to kick off a four-game home stand. They played the first three games of that stretch and they were able to pick up a pair of wins with Jacob Fowler putting up strong performances in both those games.
It was a light week for the Habs as they wrapped up a West Coast trip and had one of their longer breaks of the season. The bad news is that the blew a multi-goal lead in each of their two games. The good news is that they still won both in overtime.
October is a key month as teams look to get off to strong starts to their season. This time, the Habs were able to do just that, picking up an 8-3-0 record. Who were their top performers? Make your picks for our monthly three stars.
One of Montreal’s defence prospects is up for grabs as the Habs announced on Thursday that they’ve placed William Trudeau on waivers for purpose of reassignment to Laval.
David Reinbacher has been cleared to return from his preseason hand injury as the Habs announced on Thursday that he has been activated off season-opening IR and assigned to Laval of the AHL.
The road wasn’t particularly kind to Laval last week. Despite some promising matchups on paper, they were only able to come away with one win out of their three games with some defensive struggles along the way.
The Habs embarked on their second multi-game road trip of the early season this week. With a pair of wins in those three games plus a victory on home ice, they find themselves sitting atop the Atlantic Division through their first ten games of the season.