January 4th, 2020
We should stop being surprised at Team Finland’s successes at the IIHF World Junior Championship. Firstly, they’ve been producing more elite talent now than they’ve perhaps ever had, even with legends such as Teemu Selanne and Jari Kurri. As one of the smallest countries to participate in the tournament, Finland has always seemed...
December 31st, 2019
Max Domi has been an interesting player for the Montreal Canadiens every since they acquired him two offseasons ago from the Arizona Coyotes. In his first preseason game on Sept. 19, 2018, he knocked down Aaron Ekblad with an unsuspecting punch. That act would suspend Domi for the rest of the preseason.
He followed that up with a...
December 27th, 2019
With the 2020 IIHF World Junior Hockey Tournament underway, Team Sweden has had a decent start, beating its archrival, Team Finland, in overtime on Thursday.
Related: Takeaways from Sweden vs. Finland
In most tournaments over the last few years, Sweden has had one of the top teams on paper. However, winning gold is something that...
December 22nd, 2019
At the beginning of the week, Marc Bergevin, general manager of the Montreal Canadiens, met with members of the media. He had recently returned from a trip to Russia where he met with top prospect Alexander Romanov. Although the team was in the midst of its worst losing steak in decades, this meeting was planned before those struggles...
December 5th, 2019
They finally did it. After losing eight games in a row, the Canadiens finally won a game on Tuesday.
During the losing streak, as it usually happens in a large market such as Montreal, outrage seemed to be at an all-time high. Once again, the social media hashtag #FireBergevin was trending.
The Canadiens’ general manager Marc...
November 9th, 2019
When Victor Mete first joined the Montreal Canadiens in his 2017-18 rookie season, there was as much intrigue as excitement in seeing him play. A fourth-round selection in 2016, he joined the professional leagues after only one more year of junior hockey at 19 years of age. Additionally, he began playing on the Canadiens’ top defence...
October 31st, 2019
When the Montreal Canadiens traded away Max Pacioretty as part of their retooling phase, there was no doubt that Nick Suzuki was the key in the return package. Coming out of the 2017 draft as the 13th overall selection, Suzuki impressed scouts with his hockey sense in combination with his passing and puck control. They were attributes...
October 27th, 2019
On Thursday night against the San Jose Sharks, the Montreal Canadiens shuffled their lines around. The most notable change was putting Jonathan Drouin with Max Domi, rejoining the team’s two most talented forwards on the same line. They stopped played together for an extended period of time in January (from "Canadiens coach reunites...