All season long, there was plenty of speculation about Nick Suzuki being a Selke Trophy contender.  That proved to be quite accurate as on Friday, the NHL announced that he is this year’s winner of the award in a landslide vote.

Nick Suzuki wasn’t the only award winner from the Habs on Friday.  The NHL announced that Cole Caufield has won the 2026 Lady Byng Memorial Trophy.

The Habs had a solid playoff run overall, adding 19 games to their 2025-26, hardly an insignificant amount. What was learned through those three rounds? Our writers provide their playoff takeaways.

After a long playoff run came to an end last week, Monday was a day for exit interviews for both Montreal’s management team and most of the players. Here are some of the key takeaways from the day.

After splitting the first two games of the Eastern Conference Final, the fatigue finally caught up with the Habs. They weren’t able to muster up much against the Hurricanes the rest of the way, as they dropped the final three games of the series to end their playoff run.

Let me start this by saying that no matter what adjustments could have been made, Carolina was winning this series. But a surprising level of hubris from Martin St. Louis didn’t help Montreal’s chances.

There was no last-gasp comeback to be had for the Habs on Friday night in Carolina. They once again were down big early and never recovered, falling 6-1 to lose the Eastern Conference Final in five games.

The Habs held the Hurricanes off the scoresheet for significant chunks of Wednesday’s game. However, they allowed three goals in less than three minutes late in the first and it was basically game over from there as Carolina skated away with the 4-0 win.