Habs Daily: Aatos Koivu, Canadiens Prospect Rankings Top 10

Here are the Montreal Canadiens news items, highlights, and stories you may have missed on Friday.

Montreal Canadiens News

Prospect Aatos Koivu, picked 70th overall in 2024, scored a goal for Finland in their game against Team Canada at the 2024 World Junior Summer Showcase. In case you’re wondering, yes, he also wears No.11, just like his father.

🇨🇦 and 🇫🇮 on deck for the first game of the day at the WJSS here in Plymouth. pic.twitter.com/pbC18yKDeS

— Scott Wheeler (@scottcwheeler) August 2, 2024

We’ve reached the top 10 in our Montreal Canadiens prospect summer rankings, which means we’re discussing some of the most promising young players in the organization, including Michael Hage and Owen Beck. The top 10 also starts off with profiling three defencemen who will be fighting for ice time in the near future. [Montreal Canadiens Prospect Rankings – Entering The Top 10]

Here’s your mandatory daily content involving top Habs prospect Ivan Demidov.

Babe wake up, it’s Ivan Demidov working out 💪

https://t.co/JGQWwRhTJc

— /r/Habs (@HabsOnReddit) August 2, 2024

National Hockey Now Network

It’s a pivotal season for the Pittsburgh Penguins and for newly signed free agent Anthony Beauvillier. Just a few seasons ago, he was a 20-goal scorer trying to firmly establish his NHL career with the rival New York Islanders. From 2017 through 2020, his second, third, and fourth NHL seasons, the left winger scored 57 goals. [Pittsburgh Penguins]

There are days when Detroit Red Wings associate director of player personnel Jiri Fischer is simply a hockey dad to his son Lukas. And then there are those times when he dons his development hat and issues his son a scouting report on his performance.[Detroit Red Wings]

The last time Colorado had less than 103 points was way back during the 2018-19 season, as they sneaked into the playoffs at the end of that year in a Wild Card spot. The current roster has a heck of a lot more talent than that one. That team had a 20-year-old Sam Girard on defence, but the other minute munchers were Tyson Barrie, Erik Johnson, and Nikita Zadorov. Nothing against those guys, but Cale Makar and Devon Toews are a pretty big upgrade on what those three were back then. [Colorado Avalanche]