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Arpon Basu

Arpon Basu

Editor in Chief at Athletic - Montréal Bureau, Athlétique Montréal

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  • English
  • French
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  • Hockey

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Canadiens weekly notebook: The value of one-goal games, Suzuki on Slaf's ceiling and more - The A...

The lost another one-goal game Saturday night in Ottawa — a game they led after two periods and with a little more than a minute left in regulation, but lost in a shootout. It was the Canadiens’ league-leading 42nd one-goal game of the season and their record in those games is 17-11-14. Consistently, the Canadiens have said playing so many one-goal games gives them a path to future success, because if they can flip some of those overtime or shootout losses to wins, they could easily find themse…
8 months ago
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Canadiens call up Logan Mailloux from AHL - The Athletic

The called up defenseman Logan Mailloux from the AHL’s Laval Rocket on Monday night after their 5-4 overtime loss on the road to the , the team announced Monday. The Canadiens face the Red Wings again Tuesday at the Bell Centre, when Mailloux will presumably make his debut. Advertisement Mailloux was an AHL All-Star during his rookie season with the Rocket and has 14 goals and 33 assists in 70 games. The Canadiens drafted Mailloux with the No. 31 pick in the 2021 NHL Draft despite a public ple…
8 months ago
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Lane Hutson and young Canadiens exposed to a moment they should hop...

That scene in Detroit on Monday night is something the should remember. It should be emblazoned on their young minds forever, how they would like to have something like that at the Bell Centre very soon, perhaps a year from now. The fans at Little Caesars Arena — a building that is in its seventh season but has yet to be the venue of anything remotely like this — going ballistic after the scored four unanswered goals to keep their playoff hopes alive. Their young, budding star scored the tyin…
8 months ago
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Martin St. Louis has laid a solid foundation in Montreal, and now t...

MONTREAL — To fully understand the complicated puzzle coach Martin St. Louis will face heading into his third full season behind the bench, a brief synopsis of the day of his team’s final game of the 2023-24 season is necessary. Before the game, defenceman was speaking to reporters about winning the Jacques Beauchamp Trophy, awarded to the team’s unsung hero of the season. Savard is entering the final year of his contract and will turn 34 roughly two weeks into the next season. There is an urg…
8 months ago
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Canadiens exercise option on Martin St. Louis' contract - The Athletic

The have exercised the two-year option on coach Martin St. Louis’ deal, putting him under contract for three more seasons, the team announced Wednesday. Les Canadiens ont choisi d’exercer l’option de prolonger le contrat de Martin St-Louis pour deux années supplémentaires. L’entraîneur-chef sera de retour pour les trois prochaines saisons. The Canadiens have chosen to exercise the option on Martin St-Louis’ contract for two more… — Canadiens Montréal (@CanadiensMTL) took over behind the Montrea…
8 months ago
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Why Martin St. Louis sticking around sent a vital message from the ...

BROSSARD, Que. — It was important and appropriate that Jeff Gorton and Kent Hughes began their end-of-season news conference Wednesday with an announcement on the future of coach Martin St. Louis. Because the future of the team is clearly tied to the coach in so many ways. The exercising their two-year option on — meaning he is under contract through the end of the 2026-27 season — creates a realistic timeline for when this team hopes to be competitive. And not competitive for a playoff spot,…
8 months ago
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Canadiens exit notebook: Top line’s future, Slafkovský’s growth, Ca...

According to , there were only four forward lines in the that scored more goals at five-on-five this season than , and . In terms of goals per 60 minutes of ice time among lines who played at least 400 minutes together, they were 10th, which is pretty elite company. Advertisement But it is worth remembering Slafkovský began the season paired with , and the two of them looked great in training camp. Dach’s injury in the second game of the season is probably the single biggest factor in Slafkovs…
8 months ago
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David Reinbacher's time in Laval will have long-term benefits for h...

LAVAL, Que. — The opportunity David Reinbacher had to finish his season with the Laval Rocket after what looked from the outside like a nightmare season with EHC Kloten in Switzerland seemed like a way for him to finally play in a competitive environment. Kloten was basically out of it by the time Reinbacher arrived from training camp back in October, and his season appeared to be one in which he would need to manufacture that competition. Because his team was not the least bit competitive. Adv…
8 months ago
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Why Mike Matheson’s career year is a reason for Canadiens to keep h...

just completed one of the best scoring seasons for a defenceman in history. Only six Canadiens defencemen have ever had a season in which they put up more than the 62 points Matheson did this season. P.K. Subban never put up 62 points in a season for the Canadiens, to put that in perspective. Andrei Markov’s best mark was 64 points. Advertisement It’s a special season, especially for a guy who grew up in Pointe-Claire, a half-hour drive from the Bell Centre, and a guy who regularly speaks to th…
8 months ago
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Canadiens offseason primer: Taking a first step toward opening a co...

Team building in the ’s salary cap era is less about building an actual team than it is about opening a competitive window. Draft picks, trades, contracts, cap management, development curves, all of it needs to converge in an optimized way within a highly specific timeframe for a team to contend for the Stanley Cup. Advertisement Properly predicting when exactly that time should be is the tricky part. And that is where the find themselves now. When asked about that tricky timing at the Canadien…
8 months ago
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Montreal Canadiens’ draft possibilities at No. 5: Looking at teams ...

Kent Hughes sat there, staring into a camera, to take questions he could not answer. The general manager had just learned his team — like every other team — had stayed put in the draft lottery and holds the No. 5 pick in the 2024 NHL Draft, the second year in a row they will pick in that slot. Advertisement The difference this year, however, is that last year there was a clear, consensus top four, and everyone considered Montreal’s pick to be where the draft really began. This year, the draft r…
8 months ago