Sunday’s News and Notes
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While the Sunday of a long weekend typically doesn’t yield much in the way of news surrounding the Habs, there have been a couple of developments today.
While the Sunday of a long weekend typically doesn’t yield much in the way of news surrounding the Habs, there have been a couple of developments today.
The Habs got a head start on their offseason spending earlier this week with the acquisition of goaltender Jake Allen from St. Louis. Having had some time to ponder the move, our writers off up their takes on the trade.
The Habs took care of one of their restricted free agents on Friday as the team announced that they’ve re-signed centre Lukas Vejdemo to a one-year, two-way contract.
When the playoffs ended, GM Marc Bergevin indicated that a capable veteran backup goalie was something he was going to seek out. That search is over as the Habs have acquired Jake Allen from St. Louis.
In advance of his upcoming contract negotiations, Max Domi has decided to switch agents. After being represented by Pat Brisson, he is now repped by Darren Ferris of Quartexx.
Back in March, Cole Caufield announced that he was going to remain at Wisconsin for his freshman season. However, with the viability of the 2020-21 NCAA season in serious question, it’s quite possible that those plans could change.
While Montreal’s playoff run came to a disappointing end last week, there were quite a few players who made positive impressions. After focusing on the defence and goaltending in the first half of our report cards, we now look at the forwards.
The Habs certainly made things interesting over their last couple of games against Philadelphia. Although they weren’t able to come out with the series victory, they put up a good fight overall. Here’s a look back at their final few games plus a thought on the late-series controversy.
Florida is casting a wide net in its search for a new general manager and another Montreal executive has been targeted as Sean Burke has interviewed for the vacancy.
While Thursday is an off day in Montreal’s series against Philadelphia, there has been some news from off the ice that will have an impact on Friday’s Game Six as the Habs will be without one of their top wingers and the Flyers will be missing a defenceman.