Habs Daily: Canadiens Goaltending Options, Prospect Highlights

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

Habs News

• Samuel Montembeault’s numbers in 2022-23 weren’t good enough to warrant making him part of the team’s long-term plans as the starting goaltender, but they were good enough to justify a year-long audition next season.  [Canadiens Can Afford To Explore Goaltending Options Next Season]
• Top prospects Joshua Roy, Owen Beck, and Jared Davidson all started their third-round CHL playoff series in style, leading their respective teams to a Game 1 win. [Highlights: Top Habs Prospects Produce In CHL Playoffs]

National Hockey Now News

• San Jose Sharks prospect Alex Young is set to transfer to Arizona State via the NCAA transfer portal. Young, who just completed his junior season, has amassed 31 goals and 39 assists in 79 games over the last two years at Colgate University. [San Jose Sharks]
• The early weeks of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ longest offseason in nearly two decades have been as uneventful as many of their power players were during the 2022-23 season. [Pittsburgh Penguins]
• The Florida Panthers decided to stick with Sergei Bobrovsky in the deciding game of their first-round series against the Boston Bruins. Bobrovsky had won his past two starts — making saves on 73 of 81 shots (90 percent) — and was attempting to knock out his second No. 1 seed in the past five years. [Florida Panthers]
• Red Wings assistant general manager Shawn Horcoff recently was completing his first full season as assistant GM of the AHL Grand Rapids Griffins, Detroit’s top farm club. He’ll be the first to tell you that it didn’t go well. For the second year in a row, the Griffins are absentees as the Calder Cup playoffs are taking place. At the conclusion of the AHL regular season, Horcoff was announcing the dismissal of Grand Rapids head coach Ben Simon and the majority of his staff. [Detroit Red Wings]
• Since winning three Game 7’s en route to the 2011 Stanley Cup, the Boston Bruins have struggled in Game 7’s. The Bruins entered Game 7 against the Florida Panthers with a record of 3-4 in the do-or-die Game 7’s since that 2010-11 Bruins squad beat the Montreal Canadiens (first round), Tampa Bay Lightning (third round), and Vancouver Canucks in a seven-game Stanley Cup final. [Boston Bruins]