The Ottawa Senators completed a minor-league trade with the Montreal Canadiens, acquiring center Riley Kidney in exchange for center Jake Chiasson and goaltender Hunter Shepard per PuckPedia.
The NHL trade deadline may have come and gone, but we still have the frenzy of the AHL trade deadline. On Friday, just ahead of the AHL deadline, the Ottawa Senators acquired forward Riley Kidney from the Montreal Canadiens in exchange for goaltender Hunter Shepard and forward Jake Chiasson.
The NHL has had an interesting new millennium. It was a league sans a salary cap when the 2000s started… and then the owners locked the players out for an entire season.
The Trois-Rivières Lions got some help from the Laval Rocket this morning, with forwards Riley Kidney and Joe Dunlap, along with defenseman Darick Louis-Jean, all being reassigned to the Lions.
Riley Kidney, for a time, was linked to Joshua Roy. Both young men were drafted in 2021 (second round for Kidney, fifth round for Roy) and both were playing in the QMJHL at the time.
If we haven’t been talking much about Riley Kidney lately, it’s for a reason. The forward has been sidelined for the last six games of the Laval Rocket because his coach doesn’t trust him.
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 hosted the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday afternoon, the first leg of back-to-back games that will close out the team’s rookie camp.
The Montreal Canadiens are at a crucial point in their rebuild, and they could learn from the mistakes of their rivals on what to avoid over the next year.
It’s time for another edition of the top Montreal Canadiens prospect rankings. Unlike our Canadiens prospect power rankings that are published during the season, this list is based on overall value, including perceived potential.