After acquiring Phillip Danault from the Los Angeles Kings yesterday evening, the Montreal Canadiens had one extra player on their active roster. To return to compliance, the Canadiens announced that they’ve assigned forward Jared Davidson to the AHL’s Laval Rocket.
Montreal Canadiens‘ centre Jared Davidson’s early numbers don’t scream “future NHL player.” Yet, he was recently called up to the big club. The question is, can he stay in the lineup?
Forward Jared Davidson is set to make his NHL debut with the Montreal Canadiens tonight against the Boston Bruins. For Davidson, it has been anything but easy for him to get to this point, as he was always passed over for other guys earlier in his career.
Last night, Alex Newhook went down fighting in the Habs’ loss to the Stars. And with Martin St-Louis confirming that the forward would miss some time, the Habs were going to need a replacement.
There's more to hockey than scoring goals and stopping pucks. For some players, putting up points came second to their main task: angering their opponents.
Since Patrik Laine’s long-term injury, Joe Veleno has taken his place in the Montreal Canadiens line-up. The Montrealer has played nine games so far, but has yet to pick up a single point, in addition to posting a minus-3 differential.
The Montreal Canadiens have looked really good throughout the first 11 games of the regular season. However, there still seems to be a hole offensively next to Zack Bolduc and Kirby Dach.
When Samuel Blais was called up for waivers by the Toronto Maple Leafs just before the start of the season, it was clear that the Canadiens were one injury away from being short-handed.
Preparatory games are all about winning points in the eyes of management, and yesterday, if there’s one player who won points, it was Jared Davidson. And why?
On Tuesday, the Montreal Canadiens announced that there will be 60 players who will attend Training Camp, which starts on Wednesday with medical and physical testing.
When discussing Montreal Canadiens prospects, forward Jared Davidson is rarely talked about. The 23-year-old centre had a very solid 2nd pro season that seems to get overshadowed by many other prospects in the system.
The news unveiled by my colleague Maxime Truman yesterday concerning Kirby Dach doesn’t bode well. In fact, for those who haven’t seen it, Dach hasn’t fully recovered from his knee injury, so his training camp is in jeopardy .
Things haven’t gone according to plan for the Montreal Canadiens, but their AHL affiliate, the Laval Rocket, enjoyed one of the best starts in the history of the organization’s farm teams.
There’s something very interesting happening in the Montreal Canadiens organization, as evidenced by the fact that their AHL team, the Laval Rocket, has started the season with a SpaceX type approach to soaring as high as possible.
The Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs rookies renewed hostilities on Sunday afternoon at the Bell Centre, with the home team looking to avenge an entertaining 4-3 shootout loss the previous day.
When a prospect gets drafted by an NHL team, they may feel like they made it, like the hardest part is over but that’s seldom the case unless you are a generational player.
Saturday was the final opportunity for the Montreal Canadiens to sign certain prospects to an entry-level contract. Kent Hughes got an early start by offering Jared Davidson a two-year, entry-level contract on Friday.
The Montreal Canadiens have signed one of their forward prospects to an entry-level contract (ELC). This time it is their fifth-round selection, 130th overall, from the 2022 NHL Entry Draft centre Jared Davidson that signs his two-year ELC.
Some more organizational depth up front for one of the Original Six. On Friday, the Montreal Canadiens announced they have signed forward Jared Davidson to a two-year, entry-level contract set to kick in next season.
As you may know, not every prospect a club drafts ends up with an entry-level contract. Some never make it to the NHL. Whether it’s because of the youngsters’ performance, their desire to go elsewhere, or whether it’s because of the 50-contract limit a team can offer, decisions have to be made.