Mike Matheson 'legendary in the gym': reminiscent of Andrei Markov

Yesterday, Arpon Basu appeared on Mitch Melnick’s show on TSN 690. You can listen to the excerpt by clicking here.

In the segment, he talked about the young Canadiens players who won’t be going to the World Championships. We know this is a hot topic right now.

But it’s not just the youngsters we need to talk about.

After all, one of the organization’s most important defencemen will be there: Mike Matheson. The Québécois, who eats up a lot of minutes with the Canadiens, should have a nice role to play with Canada.

Why is he there, but not other key Habs players? Is it because of injuries? Does the Habs want to protect its young players? Because if that’s why Lane Hutson (who played almost twice as much this year as he did in 2023-2024) isn’t there for the Americans, I agree.

At the same time, the Habs know that even though Matheson plays a lot, he knows his body.

And when he says, when meeting the media, that he’s never felt as good as he does right now, it’s because he knows what he’s talking about and he knows how to prepare himself properly. #Inspiring