Following Tuesday’s victory against Ottawa, the Canadiens made another coaching change as goalie coach Stephane Waite was relieved of his duties. Sean Burke has been named Montreal’s Director of Goaltending and will serve as his replacement.
Laval’s lengthy homestand to start the season wrapped up last week with a four-game set against Manitoba. While they were the better team in all four games, they still only managed to come away with two victories.
March 1st is the first day that players can sign contracts that begin in 2021-22 and the Habs did just that with Gianni Fairbrother, inking the defenceman to a three-year, entry-level contract.
It was a week of shakeups for the Habs with changes being made behind the bench but the end results remained the same as their losing streak has extended to five games although there is still a small silver lining.
Habs GM Marc Bergevin played a big card on Wednesday with the firings of Claude Julien and Kirk Muller with Dominique Ducharme and Alex Burrows taking over the vacated roles. Was this the right move? Our writers offer up their thoughts.
Laval’s second half of their season-opening series against Belleville didn’t go as well as the first half but the Rocket still managed to pick up a win in one of the two games.
A week off didn’t do much to recharge the batteries for the Habs as they only managed to pick up a single point over a pair of losses to Toronto and Ottawa.
Laval got off to a nice start to their 2020-21 season as they picked up a pair of high-scoring victories over Belleville with a good mixture of returnees and newcomers leading the way.
It turns out playing a team other than Ottawa wasn’t enough to cure Montreal’s woes as they limped through the first two games of the week before eking out a win on Saturday to at least hit their off week on a winning note.
After a sluggish start to his season, the Habs have placed Paul Byron on waivers for the purpose of assigning him to the taxi squad.