'How can we show the players this fan base that’s so passionate is still there and cheering?' In his latest notebook, EricEngels provides an inside look into how the Canadiens plan to have fans in the bubble with them ⤵️
. That Weal was skating in Danault’s spot next to Brendan Gallagher and Tomas Tatar suggested he wasn’t so much battling for a job as he was battling to keep one.
The question remains as to where Weal will lineup at five-on-five. Fourth-line centre seems like a good bet.Get the best of our NHL coverage and exclusives delivered directly to your inbox!It was as Montreal’s fourth-line centre that Evans made his mark over the final 13 games before the NHL hit the pause button.
He just got a raw deal, in a sense. Here’s a player that was drafted 16th overall in 2011, a player who tore up the Finnish Liiga and showed how prolific he could be at the world junior championships, and a player who cut his teeth for parts of two impressive seasons with the AHL’s Rochester Americans.
I guess I wasn’t too surprised to hear Armia reference the opportunity the Canadiens gave him — the one that might have never been available with the Jets — as the biggest factor in his success in Montreal.
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