Links: Trade deadline planning

Feb 8, 2023 - 9:00 AM

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Montreal Canadiens news and notes

• The Canadiens need to go into the trade deadline with multiple plans. [The Hockey Writers]
• Mike Keane speaks candidly about being part of a franchise-altering trade. [Montreal Gazette]
• Big decisions are coming up when it comes to Cayden Primeau. [RDS]
• Jayden Struble hopes to follow in Jordan Harris’s footsteps, but knows that his journey may involve the AHL. [La Presse]
• How does Samuel Montembeault’s ascendancy affect how Kent Hughes views his team’s long-term goaltending situation for the deadline? [Montreal Hockey Now]
• The Edmonton Oilers and Los Angeles Kings are reportedly in the market for a left defenceman, and Joel Edmundson might be an attractive target. [The Athletic]
• Vincenz Rohrer is gradually working his way back to peak form since returning to game action two weeks after being taken off the ice on a stretcher. [Ottawa Citizen]

Around the league and elsewhere

• U.S. Labor Secretary and former Boston mayor Marty Walsh is expected to leave the Biden administration to run the National Hockey League Players’ Association. [TSN]
• The Buffalo Sabres signed forward Dylan Cozens to a seven-year, $49.7 million contract extension. [TSN]
• The Cozens deal is one worth making, says Steven Ellis. [Daily Faceoff]
• Eight pressing questions that could have a large impact on the trade deadline in four weeks. [Sportsnet]
• Which top prospect assets could contenders move at the deadline? [The Athletic]
• Twelve restricted free agents who are due for a raise. [The Athletic]
• Can the Florida Panthers still make a run at the playoffs? [Daily Faceoff]
• Mario Lemieux could ‘do things that nobody else could do’. [The Athletic]
• Are the Carolina Hurricanes a stronger Stanley Cup contender than the dominant Boston Bruins? [The Hockey News]
• Artturi Lehkonen is pushing towards a career year in his first full season with the Colorado Avalanche. [The Hockey Writers]
• According to a report in Swiss newspaper Le Matin, Jake Virtanen got into an altercation with an EHC Visp teammate and has been dismissed from the team. [Vancouver Province]
• The OHL’s Hamilton Bulldogs are officially relocating from Hamilton to Brantford, 40 km away. [Toronto Star]