“For me, Cayden Primeau is an NHL goalie” – Pascal Vincent

I’m not telling you anything new when I say that Jonathan Toews wants to get back into the game.
Several teams are in the running for his services, including the Maple Leafs and the Jets.
I don’t know if the Canadiens are interested, but my colleague Charles-Alexis Brisebois wondered last year if Toews could be a solution. And a few months later, he was at the Bell Centre.
Could he pilot the second line next year?
“If he wants to come to Montreal, go for it! Mathias Brunet woul

Organizers of the Tour de Concord cycling celebration have announced its return to Vancouver this summer. The criterium bike races and family festival hosted by Concord Pacific will take over Concord Pacific Place on Sunday, July 13. Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim got into the spirit this week by letting a cyclist perform a stunt jump over him as he lay on the ground at the festival site. No municipal politicians were harmed in the making of this promotion. “We’re excited to welcome the Tou

When you think of the great draft picks of recent years, Lane Hutson’s name quickly comes to mind. The Habs defenseman, who had just broken all records in his first year on the Bettman circuit, was one hell of a late second-round pick in 2022.
Some teams are biting their fingers today, we agree.
A year earlier, the Toronto Maple Leafs also made a nice grab for Matthew Knies. The forward, who honed his game in the NCAA, is coming off a solid second NHL season, playing big minutes on a good

When the Canadiens drafted Juraj Slafkovský first overall in 2022, they did so with one clear goal in mind: to capitalize on his potential to become a dominant player in big games. By going for a player with such an imposing frame who was also talented, the club wanted to get its big power forward.
These are rare and precious commodities on the Bettman circuit.
And after three years, one thing is clear: when Slaf plays big hockey, he’s capable of being that player. He still needs to

The famous question of the second center will be the question of the ballot box this summer for the Canadiens. While everyone agrees that the club needs to solidify its second line, (really) not everyone would do it the same way.
Horvat, Barzal, Bennett, Tavares, Crosby, Rossi and the list goes on: everyone has a favorite.
That said, there’s another name that’s been the talk of the town in recent months: Ryan O’Reilly. With the Predators going nowhere, one wonders if the player

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Matvei Michkov has been in the news in the hockey world since yesterday. He was involved in a car accident, the circumstances of which seem rather worrying.
A journalist in Russia was talking about alcohol and documentation problems in the story… which was scary enough.
The good news, however, is that Mishkov is doing well. He was not seriously injured in the accident… but we were still waiting for more details.
And now, in the last few hours, details have surfaced, as the Russian

The coaching waltz continues.
After seeing Rick Tocchet head for Philadelphia (for $25 million over five years, according to reports), his former team, the Vancouver Canucks, are on the verge of finding Tocchet’s successor.
We’re talking about Adam Foote. John Shannon tweeted it, Darren Dreger tweeted it – and Pierre LeBrun retweeted it.As others have speculated, Adam Foote will be named Head Coach of the Vancouver Canucks.
– Darren Dreger (@DarrenDreger) May 14, 2025
Ada

Clearly, Daniel Brière’s Flyers have a preferred type of coach.
After letting John Tortorella go towards the end of last season, the Flyers are on the verge of hiring Rick Tocchet as their next pilot.
Elliotte Friedman, Frank Seravalli and Pierre LeBrun have all tweeted on the subject.Not sure of timing, but it is coming https://t.co/6l2em8LrSs
– Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) May 14, 2025
Tocchet fits in with what the Flyers want to do. He started his career there. He&rsquo

Laval’s goaltenders are the talk of the town.
A few days ago, colleague Maxime Truman said that the Rocket’s plan was to play Jacob Fowler in Game #4 of the series against Cleveland and Cayden Primeau in the game after.
And that’s whether the Rocket wins or loses against the Monsters in game #4.
Fowler eventually played (and won) game #4, eliminating the Monsters. And now, on the heels of tonight’s game, the first in the series against Rochester and the first since the se

A lot can happen in two short weeks.
On April 28, the Penguins fired Mike Sullivan, who had just completed his tenth season at the helm of the Pens. Sullivan still had two years left on his contract, but one imagines that he and Kyle Dubas were not on the same wavelength for the next few years..
On May 2, the Rangers announced that they had hired the same Mike Sullivan, a few days after firing Peter Laviolette…
And now, this morning (May 14), we learn from Josh Yohe(TheAthletic) that Sidn

Ahh, hostile offer sheets…
One wonders if there will be at least one this summer in the NHL. After all, last summer, there were two, and they were the talk of the town. It changed the way things were seen.
And with the salary cap set to rise, more teams will be able to consider dropping them.“I think we’re going to see more hostile offer sheets. In the league, if a team has success with a strategy, it can become a trend.”
– Jeff Gorton
– RDS (@RDSca) May 5, 2

When Marc Bergevin took a job to back up Rob Blake and Luc Robitaille with the Kings a few years ago, we suspected it was to keep himself in the game so he could one day return to the Bettman circuit as GM.
And we suspected that if there was an opening in Los Angeles, he’d give it a shot.
However, we quickly realized that while he may have seemed like the Los Angeles Kings’ candidate in the past, that’s no longer the case. After all, it’s Ken Holland who’s going to

Super Team Canada is a new animated comedy series for adults about an all-Canadian superhero team. Produced by Vancouver-based studio Thunderbird Entertainment’s Atomic Cartoons and Will Arnett’s Electric Avenue, it premieres on CRAVE on May 16. The all-Canadian show was co-created by Emmy Award-winning Alberta siblings Robert and Joel H. Cohen, whose long list of writing credits includes such enduring TV hits as The Big Bang Theory and The Simpsons, as well as films such as Austin P

Super Team Canada is a new animated comedy series for adults about an all-Canadian superhero team. Produced by Vancouver-based studio Thunderbird Entertainment’s Atomic Cartoons and Will Arnett’s Electric Avenue, it premieres on CRAVE on May 16. The all-Canadian show was co-created by Emmy Award-winning Alberta siblings Robert and Joel H. Cohen, whose long list of writing credits includes such enduring TV hits as The Big Bang Theory and The Simpsons, as well as films such as Austin P

The 2024-2025 season wasn’t all plain sailing for the Montreal Canadiens’ new crown jewel, Ivan Demidov.
The youngster spent most of the year at home in Russia, working off the last of his contract with the KHL’s SKA St. Petersburg. He then played in the playoffs with his team, having been eliminated early in the first round.
The fifth overall pick in the 2024 NHL draft flew to Montreal after the playoffs on the other continent, crossing the globe to make the jump to North Amer

The NHL playoffs continue.
Last night, there was only one game on the menu, and it was between the Stars and the Jets. The Jets had a chance to tie the series, and the Stars could take a 3-1 lead.
And it was the Dallas club that came out on top in Game #4 by a score of 3-1, pushing the Western champions to within one game of elimination.
In the Stars’ victory, it’s not complicated: Mikael Granlund was the hero. The Finn scored all three of his team’s goals, which (obviously) ma

Kent Hughes has his work cut out for him before next season. He’ll have to look for a second center forward and maybe even another defenseman. Christian Dvorak is another player who needs to be dealt with.
He did the Habs proud in the final stretch of last season. Not only did he pilot the team’s most consistent 200-foot line at 5-on-5, but he brought unexpected production with Josh Anderson and Brendan Gallagher.
The problem is, the Habs have signed Jake Evans and Alex Newhook is ex

Caleb Desnoyers is turning heads in the playoffs this year. His team, the Moncton Wildcats, are in the QMJHL finals, and he’s impressing.Since the start of the playoffs, he has 28 points in 15 games, including 9 goals.He has served up some superb passes to his team-mates, and demonstrated his skating skills on several occasions in the opposition zone.
His performances have not gone unnoticed, and Philippe Boucher, former general manager and head coach of the Quebec Remparts, goes even furt

The Toronto Maple Leafs are currently in a… tricky situation. They had a 2-0 lead in their series against the Panthers, but have just lost two in a row.
And given the Leafs’ history in the playoffs, the AI was probably right to doubt them, even with a 2-0 series lead.
If the Leafs want to bounce back, they’ll have to hope Auston Matthews starts scoring goals again. The club’s star forward plays good defensive hockey… but he earns his salary by scoring goals, and r

In the last few hours, we’ve been talking about Ilya Kovalchuk and his problems on the road. The former NHL forward has been arrested no fewer than 210 times for traffic offences since the start of 2024… and that sounds bad when you know he’s involved in a road safety prevention campaign in Russia.
Clearly, then, we thought this would be the biggest story involving a Russian and a car today… but clearly, it isn’t.
In fact, according to what is currently circulatin

The famous subject of the Habs’ second center has been the talk of the town for the past few weeks. Just about everyone agrees that the Canadiens need to get a big second center behind Nick Suzuki… but everyone has an opinion on who that second center should be.
A lot of people want to go after the Islanders… but once again, there’s no unanimity on that either.Mathew Barzal or Bo Horvat: which would you like to see with the Canadiens?
In @stephgonzz ‘s case, it&rs

It’s now been almost two weeks since David Savard officially retired. The defenseman, who had announced he would retire at the end of the Habs season, saw his very fine career come to an end on April 30, when the Capitals eliminated the Habs.
It was truly an emotional moment.
That said, even though he’s retired as a player, just about everyone has the impression that we can expect to see Savard around the Habs again. He’s extremely well respected in the dressing room, and he&rs

Ilya Kovalchuk enjoyed a fine career in the NHL. The forward, who broke all records with the Thrashers and Devils, also had a memorable (albeit short) stint with the Canadiens at the end of his career.
He was truly one of the league’s most electrifying talents during his time in America.
But for the past few years, Kovalchuk has been back in Russia. He played a few games in the KHL in 2023-24, but otherwise, he’s pretty much retired.
That gives him a little more time to enjoy life, b

Talk about hostile offer sheets.
When Marc Bergevin tabled a hostile offer sheet for Sebastian Aho in 2019, he saw the Hurricanes retaliate by stealing Jesperi Kotkaniemi from the Canadiens a few seasons later.
It was a revenge of sorts, then.
The question I’m asking myself, then, is whether, in 2025, there are still executives who will be in fine fettle if one of their players were ever to sign such an offer.
I’m inclined to say no, since hostile offer sheets are likely to become in

Yesterday, on the 32 Thoughts podcast, Elliotte Friedman talked about the Rick Tocchet file.
The pilot, who left the Canucks, shouldn’t have too much trouble finding a job. He’s been collecting interviews, and in reality, he’s not really the one being interviewed.
He’s in such high demand that it’s really the teams who are interviewing him.Friedman on 32TP says it seems like Rick Tocchet is interviewing teams rather than teams interviewing him, he has a certain stan

In 2024-2025, during the regular season, Samuel Montembeault played 62 games. He started 60.
Add to that the first three games of the series against the Capitals. So, compared to previous years, his workload was definitely more intense.
And it’s not even close.
(Credit: Hockey DB)
Even if goalies did that in the good old days, in 2025, it’s no longer the norm. After all, the speed of the game, the rise of the offensive game, travel and all those factors make a goalie’s life mor

There are many ways for a team to improve quickly.
One of the easiest ways, if not the easiest, is to sign a free agent, because free agents don’t cost teams anything in return, and we generally know what to expect from them.
On the other hand, the free agent market tends to drive up players’ salaries, and most of them want the highest possible salary.
There have been many mistakes in the past, where a player who did well in the last year of his contract was overpaid, but never retur

The NHL may have a hard time suspending guys on the ice in the playoffs, but it’s capable of handing out suspensions nonetheless.
Yesterday, we talked about how a minority shareholder of the club (Doug Cifu) had completely lost it, yet again, on X. He insulted a Maple Leafs fan by talking about the 51st state and anti-Semitic comments.
It wasn’t classy.LMFAOOOOOO pic.twitter.com/Q33jRFHM2P
– Dr. Grizzo (PhD, MD, BA, MBA, 7’4 240 IQ) (@mrgrozz) May 12, 2025
But let’s