Here’s an excerpt from Slamsports (Bill Beacon):
How Lang will fit in will be worked out in camp. The Canadiens current top two centres are captain Saku Koivu and Tomas Plekanec, who played with Kovalev and Andrei Kostitsyn on a very effective line last season. One of them may be moved to the third line.
Lang, who began his NHL career with Los Angeles in the season when Montreal won its last Stanley Cup in 1992-93, is a former 32-goal scorer who has also played for Boston, Washington and Detroit.
“As for playing with Alex, we had a great time in Pittsburgh playing together,” said Lang, a member of the Czech Republic’s 1998 Olympic gold-medal team. “Hopefully, we can revisit the chemistry we had. It should be great.”
