Habs Daily: Canadiens Draft Lottery Odds, CHL Playoffs, RHP

All the latest Habs news, recent Montreal Canadiens stories, as well as information from around the National Hockey League.

Habs News

• With the final game of the 2022-23 season in the books, we now know the Canadiens’ exact Draft Lottery odds. [Canadiens Draft Lottery Odds Are Finalized]
• Montreal Canadiens prospects Rafaël Harvey-Pinard and Jesse Ylönen are paying immediate dividends for the Laval Rocket, putting them in an excellent position to make the playoffs. [Canadiens Harvey-Pinard & Ylonen Performing In The AHL]
• The Canadian Hockey League playoffs are in full swing, which means several Montreal Canadiens players are working their way toward a Memorial Cup run. As is often the case in the first round of the CHL playoffs, most Canadiens prospects that advanced had a rather easy time. [Canadiens Prospect Report: Prospects Face-Off In CHL Playoffs]

National Hockey Now News

• The writing was on the wall, but the Colorado Avalanche made it official on Thursday evening, as Gabriel Landeskog has been ruled out of the 2023 NHL playoffs by the team. [Colorado Avalanche]
• Who Owns the Penguins and Do They Really Care? [Pittsburgh Penguins]
• Assuming Danny Briere is named the full-time general manager and has the interim tag removed, one of his many challenges in the offseason will be this: finding players who make the special teams click. [Philadelphia Flyers]
• When asked whether he was playing for the Florida Panthers on Thursday night in the final regular season game, Sergei Bobrovsky did not have an answer. ”Honest,’’ he said, “I do not know”. [Florida Panthers]
• While Detroit Red Wings fans were revelling in the demise of the 16-year playoff streak of Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday night, a couple of pertinent facts seemed to be slipping their minds. Pittsburgh’s playoff ouster means that the New York Islanders are in the NHL postseason and the hunt for the Stanley Cup. This impacts the Red Wings on a couple of fronts.. [Detroit Red Wings]
• Golden Knights’ Laurent Brossoit is making a strong case to be the team’s starting goaltender in the playoffs. [Vegas Golden Knights]
• While the Boston Bruins still don’t know who their first-round opponent is going to be between the Florida Panthers and the New York Islanders, they at least do know when their first-round playoff series is going to begin. [Boston Bruins]