Zachary Bolduc works on his bets with Marc Bureau, according to Marco Normandin

So you have to wonder what all this means for the Habs’ second center position. After all, if Bureau made Bolduc work so hard on his face-offs, it’s probably not for nothing.

I wonder whether it was Bolduc who approached Bureau or whether it was the Habs who asked Bureau to go and practice with Bolduc. History doesn’t tell.

It should also be remembered that, apart from Alex Newhook (who plays center a bit by default), the Canadiens have no left-handed center. Bolduc is left-handed, and he could give Martin St-Louis another option at that level.

My feeling right now is that the Habs want to put Bolduc and Kirby Dach on the same line so that both take face-offs on their strong side. The club opted for this approach with Dach and Sean Monahan back in the day, and we could try to recreate it.

We’ll be keeping a close eye on all this, but we think there’s a real chance we’ll see Bolduc playing center in Montreal. Or, at least, to see him there part-time in the company of Kirby Dach.

That’s not to say it’s a certainty (Bureau has been practicing with Juraj Slafkovský in the face-off circle for several months, and no one sees Slaf going to center next year), but it’s a very interesting possibility.

Overtime

– Aatos Koivu: we still don’t know where he’ll play next year.

– Well done.

– Wow.