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Habs Daily: Hutson’s Early Impact, Prospect Vote, Mailloux

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

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It’s almost time to start publishing the Montreal Canadiens Prospect Power Rankings, but before we start taking a closer look at recent performances from Habs prospects we need to set the initial ranking via a fan vote. The series will begin shortly after the initial list is established.  [Canadiens Prospect Power Rankings: Habs Fan Initial Vote]

Lane Hutson has only played four  games in the NHL, but it’s already clear his skill set will translate nicely to the professional level. The rookie already leads all defencemen in expected goal share at 5v5, and trails only Kaiden Guhle for the highest average 5v5 ice time. His ability to drive quickly drive the offence up ice will come in handy as the Canadiens look to diversify their offensive weapons.


Top prospect Jacob Fowler enjoyed a great start to his sophomore season in the NCAA. The Boston College starter made 24 saves on his way to a season-opening shutout. Admittedly, I had hoped the Eagles wouldn’t be as dominant as they were last season, as it was somewhat difficult to get a great read on Fowler due to the low number of chances BC allowed. That’s not an easy situation either, and he has looked great despite the fact that he rarely got the chance to get into a steady rhythm during games, but it would be interesting to see how he’d react to being peppered on a nightly basis. That being said, there’s very little to dislike when it comes to Fowler’s potential. His agility has improved significantly since he started his NCAA career, and his tracking remains excellent.

The 21st overall pick at the 2024 NHL Entry Draft, Michael Hage, has hit the ground running in the NCAA. The freshman is one of the most entertaining prospects I have watched in a while. He executes all his plays at top speed, and his shiftiness leads to a bevy of scoring chances. Hage scored the third goal of the game in Michigan 4-1 win over Arizona State on Friday, which means he has two goals and three assists in just three games. This time around his goal was thanks to a quick tip in front of the net, not to mention some solid positioning in the offensive zone.


The Laval Rocket opened the season with a 5-2 win over the Providence Bruins. Defenceman Logan Mailloux had a great game, scoring two goals and two assists for the Montreal Canadiens’ AHL affiliate. Mailloux was the Rocket’s representative at the AHL All-Star game last year thanks to am impressive rookie season that included 14 goals and 33 assists in 72 games.

As for Filip Mesar, the 20-year-old began his professional career in earnest on Friday, and he did it in style, scoring a goal and two assists.

Prior to the game, the team announced its leadership group, with Lucas Condotta serving as the team’s captain, with Brandon Gignac and Tyler Wotherspoon as alternates. I wrote alternates because that’s what the ‘A’ on hockey jerseys stands for, not assistants. There are no assistant captains in hockey. You don’t see Brendan Gallagher fetching Nick Suzuki coffee during a game or picking up his dry-cleaning, because he’s not an assistant.  It stems from the time when a captain had to be on the ice at all times in hockey, which led to teams designating alternate captains to be used while the main captain is on the bench, or is serving a penalty. You may say that’s quite pedantic on my part, and it absolutely is. I usually don’t worry about small things in life, but for some reason it always drives me unreasonably crazy when someone uses the wrong term.

Anyhow, I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ’em. “Gimme five bees for a quarter,” you’d say!

Now where were we? Oh, yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn’t have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones…

National Hockey Now Network

he Pittsburgh Penguins are 1-1-0. The bitter, raw broccoli taste created by a ghastly self-dismantling against the New York Rangers on night one was followed by an increasingly good performance in a 6-3 win over the Detroit Red Wings Thursday at Little Caesars Arena. [Pittsburgh Penguins]

After digesting the New Jersey Devils’ 4-2 defeat at the hands of the Toronto Maple Leafs, there are certainly some thoughts that arise. Thus, we bring you a new, annual report card following each and every Devils game this season which will be published the day after a game.[New Jersey Devils]

The Philadelphia Flyers announced a pair of transactions on Friday afternoon ahead of their season-opener against the Vancouver Canucks. [Philadelphia Flyers]

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