All Habs Headlines: Monday September 5, 2016 |
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On this day in hockey history… 1959 — Hockey Hall of Fame announced it’s newest members: Jack Adams, Cy Denneny and Cecil “Tiny” Thompson. 2013 — Calgary Flames hired Brian Burke as President of Hockey Operations. |
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► Training Camps Open
- Training camps open on Monday across Canada, the U.S. and Europe as the best hockey players in the world begin their preparations for the 2016 World Cup of Hockey.
- Team Canada, with the Canadiens Carey Price and Shea Weber set to make big contributions have their first session at the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa.
- The NHL young guns representing Team North America will have their first practice from 11:00-12:45 pm at the Bell Centre on Monday.
- The Canadiens, in addition to Price and Weber, will have four other players at the tournament including Tomas Plekanec (Czech Republic), Max Pacioretty (USA), Andrei Markov (Russia) and Alexei Emelin (Russia.)
- Team Canada will play their first exhibition game on Friday vs. Team USA at Nationwide Arena in Columbus. The same two teams will play again on Saturday September 10th in Ottawa.
► Therrien On The Hot Seat
- A large majority majority of Canadiens fans were attempting to will the team’s management to fire Michel Therrien last season. Despite that not happening, Therrien will certainly be under the microscope to start this season.
- ESPN’s Matthew Coller wrote a piece this week on the head coaches that will have their livelihoods most on the line going into this upcoming season, with the Canadiens bench boss being named.
- Coller labeled the following eight coaches on a short leash, namely: Michel Therrien (Canadiens), Jack Capuano (Islanders), Paul Maurice (Jets), Todd McLellan (Oilers), Willie Desjardins (Canucks), Claude Julien (Bruins), John Tortorella and Alain Vigneault (Rangers).
- Prior to Carey Price’s departure last season, Therrien was on his way to another high seed in the east, with Price’s injury having a dual effect of exposing the team’s deficiencies and severely damaging their confidence.
► Canadiens Without A Head Physician
- The Canadiens medical staff was swamped this past season with a large number of significant injuries. But, heading into this season, the Habs have parted ways with their head physician.
- According to Renaud Lavoie, the Canadiens head doctor, Dr. Vincent Lacroix, will no longer be a member of the Canadiens organization, with no real explanation past that point.
- Lavoie took to Twitter to break the news “Dr Vincent Lacroix is not working for the #canadiens anymore for administrative reasons. Not related to Carey Price [injury] according to sources.”
- Lacroix had been with the Canadiens organization since 1994, becoming the team’s head physician since the lockout-shortened 2012-13 season.
► NHL 17 HUT Rating
- As the new NHL season approaches, comes EA Sports’ NHL 17, and with the game comes ratings which people take way too seriously, and a differentiation between the game’s ratings during hockey ultimate team and regular play.
- EA Sports released today the ratings for each team in regards to Hockey Ultimate Team, with few major deviations from the base ratings, aside from one addition to Montreal this summer.
- Shea Weber’s rating for NHL 17 was released weeks ago with the newest Canadiens blueliner topping all other defenceman with a 94 rating, however in HUT, his rating is an 87, presumably, taking into account the differences between HUT play and regular computer play.
- Aside from that, the two players’ ratings that were disclosed to the public both had drops in overall, with Carey Price’s rating getting knocked down a notch to 92 overall and Max Pacioretty’s overall dropping by two to 87.
► Red vs. White Game
- The Canadiens will hold their annual intrasquad game on September 25th at 1:00 pm. at the Bell Centre. Doors will open at 11:30 am.
- Vouchers are available at Canadian Tire stores beginning on September 6th. The vouchers can be exchanged for game tickets on www.canadiens.com
- Last year the the red-white game raised $44,000 for the Canadian Tire BLEU BLANC BOUGE in Action program.
► Molson Fined
- Canadiens president Geoff Molson has been fined by the Quebec’s lobbyist commissioner for failing to renew the lobbyist registration for his company, L’Arena des Canadiens Inc.
- Molson faces a minimum fine of $500 related to a breach of an article in the provincial act on transparency and ethics in lobbying.
- A spokesperson for the Canadiens reports that the matter has been resolved.
► Perry A Go
- Canada has ludicrous 10/11 odds at winning the World Cup of Hockey coming up this September, and as one all-star goes down they can fill his hole by a former Rocket Richard trophy winner.
- Jon Rosen of Fox Sports West confirmed an initial report by Sportsnet’s Elliot Friedman that Jeff Carter will be out for the remainder of the World Cup of Hockey, adding that it was due to a lower-body injury.
- Many media voices at the same time released succinctly the information that former 50-goal scorer and Stanley Cup Champion Corey Perry would be filling Carter’s spot on the roster.
- Just to outline the absurdity of the Canadian talent pool, Perry captained team Canada just a few months ago at the World Championship, where Perry’s team took home the gold medal.
► Anderson Out
- The Toronto Maple Leafs’ inaugural season of not being a complete nuclear waste spill is off to a difficult start with their newly-minted number one goaltender going down with an injury prior to the start of the season.
- Fredrik Andersen is said to have an upper-body injury due to a collision between him and a Slovenia player during a relegation game for the 2018 Olympics in which Andersen’s Denmark lost.
- In addition to spiking the heart rates of Leafs fans for no apparent reason, Andersen will be yet another player to miss the World Cup of Hockey, with his spot on team Europe being filled by Jaroslav Halak and Tomas Greiss.
- Toronto acquired the 6-foot-4-inch netminder at the NHL entry draft in exchange for the 30th overall pick along with a 2017 second round pick.
- The Leafs later signed Andersen to a five-year, $25 million contract, that will see him be a member of the organization, barring trade, through his age 31 season.
► Bishop Almost A Flame
- Prior to acquiring Brian Elliott, the Calgary Flames were still in desperate need for a starting goaltender, and evidently were very close on pulling the trigger on a move for Ben Bishop.
- In an article in the Tampa Bay Times, Bishop mentioned that he was close to becoming a member of the Flames organization, at one point talking contract until the situation devolved.
- “It looked like for a little bit it was going to happen,” Bishop told the Tampa Bay Times’ Joe Smith. “At kind of the last minute (the Flames) went out and got Elliott. It was close, but there was never… It wasn’t that close, obviously.”
- “It was a tough time,” Bishop said. “I went to Vegas for the awards when I found out there was a possibility I might be traded. Going to the awards and in the back of your mind worried about it. It was definitely an emotional week.”
- The two-time Vezina trophy finalist is coming off a phenomenal campaign in which he posted career-best in both save percentage, .926, and goals against average, 2.06.
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