Author: Virginia Whitehead

After winning the first pick in the draft lottery, in 2022, where is the plan to rebuild the Montreal Canadiens? Do the three hockey chiefs at the top levels of the organization, Jeff Molson, Jeff Gorton and Kent Hughes, believe they can come off the counter for the second year in a row? For Tony Marinaro, there is no doubt that the leaders will agree to wrap up the next shallow-water expedition to catch Connor Bedard, if hopes based on the little miracle make him the best player in his old team. To use well-known English in mathematical terms, the…

Posted today at 1:14pm. Updated today at 1:14pm. Exciting is the word for the first day on the ice at Canadian boot camp. The players had to dig deep to complete the on-ice conditioning test that coach Martin St. Testing has been on the agenda for some time. So the players were not surprised. The exercise was very simple: do three laps on the rink and do it six times with about two minutes of rest between each repetition. Phew!!! One Canadian leader, whom I met at the edge of the ice in Broussard, told me he had never seen…

Jonathan Marchesault was at a post-NHL game to talk about physical exams at the start of cross-league training camps. This is clearly a day that both rookies and veterans are not eagerly anticipating. The situation has also changed a lot in recent years, and we no longer see players making it to training camp with tens of pounds extra and completely. unfit. However, Pascal Leclerc remembers a private training camp with Senators in Ottawa. At that time, he was a teammate of the favorite Montreal team Alex Kovalev. The skilled Russian carelessly conducted the physical tests at the Sens training…

Juraj Slafkovsky, first overall pick in the National Hockey League’s (NHL) latest amateur draft, received a rating of 78 in EA Sports’ latest “NHL” video game release. The company that designed “NHL 23” revealed this Wednesday in a Twitter post. Thus, the new Montreal Canadiens striker will be one of the top-ranked rookies to start the season. He also shares the same rating as Shane Wright, who many would have liked to see in Montreal, before falling into the hands of the Seattle Kraken, fourth in the draft. For his part, Buffalo Sabers defender Owen Power, the first choice for…

Physical exam day, as for Montreal Canadiens today, is not a day generally popular for players. However, it is a must. Former NHL and Habs player Matthew Perrault revealed on Wednesday during the show La Poche Bleue at noon The difficulty of these physical tests is not the same throughout the NHL. “It’s not really fun,” Perreault admitted right away. Having to push yourself to the limit takes a hard mental effort. We do it, everyone does it and you go through it. I was fortunate that the physical exams were relatively easy in Winnipeg with Paul Morris. For a…

The Montreal Canadiens on Monday announced the roster of 74 players who will attend their training camp. • Read also: Gionta recounts the time his teammates cut Suban sticks • Read also: Juraj Slafkovsky can’t wait to get to work • Read also: Kaiden Guhle: A really supportive stance Forty-four strikers, 21 defenders and nine goalkeepers will try to convince club management that they deserve a place on the roster for the inaugural season, October 12 against the Toronto Maple Leafs at Bell Center. Of course, the first choice in the last draft of the National League, Juraj Slavkovsky, would…

Young players of CH will face a great collective challenge, which is the revival of CH. But on an individual level, young people will also face the challenge of finding their place in the sun. As Matthias Brunet mentions, there are many who have been called up, but few have been elected because CH doesn’t have 50 places to offer either. Free washing machine | repression https://t.co/gtqq9ol3jy – The Sports Press (@LaPresse_Sports) September 20 2022 This is especially true of defense. After all, the club usually only wears six men a night and on top of that, it takes a…

Tuesday, 20 September 2022. 07:00 Buffalo – At the age of 20, goalkeeper Antoine Colombe was not invited to an NHL team camp. He hoped his performance over the past year would convince an organization, but he had to be patient. “I thought I would have a chance to get invited by a team in the season I just learned about. But after enlisting, I wasn’t invited to a development camp so I didn’t really know,” goalkeeper Shawinigan Cataracts admitted. When the Canadian finally gave him a mark, in light of the Junior Championships at Buffalo, the excitement came to…

Quebec defender William Trudeau was selected in the fourth round by the Canadians in the 2021 draft, and he did what was necessary to stand out in the final days during the junior camp of the Montreal organization. TVA Sports hockey correspondent Renaud Lavoie was, like many, very impressed with the progress of the 19-year-old goalkeeper, a member of the Charlottetown Islanders of the QMJHL. He took the opportunity to reveal a short story about Trudeau on Monday on “JiC,” to explain why he’s prepared for this camp. Renault first mentioned that things were not going well for the young…

After failing to go far in the playoffs in two consecutive years (2019-20 and 2020-2021), the Edmonton Oilers made some changes to their roster. The big plus came last year in the middle of the season, when they seized the opportunity with controversial Evander Kane. The latter, as I recall, was at the coreat least 59 A stupid story (maybe I’m exaggerating a little), but that didn’t stop Ken Holland from giving him a second chance with his signature at the end of the season. We immediately understood that in Edmonton we wanted to win at any cost by briefing…