Tip of the hat to the original strike meme.

#Habs Jeff Gorton on acquiring Alexandre Carrier: "Alex is a player we've liked for a long time; we know about the character and what he brings off the ice as a person combined with how he plays... his skillset really works well the way Marty wants to play"

#Habs Jeff Gorton on acquiring Alexandre Carrier: "for us finding someone at Alex's age, with his experience, the type of character, the way he plays - we feel like it really fits into the way we want to play...we felt our team needed some more veteran presence..."

#Habs Patrik Laine: "I talked with my therapist about this when I was a little nervous yesterday and decided putting this jersey on today is an achievement after everything and everything that comes after that is a plus."

#Habs Patrik Laine on his thinking heading into his #GoHabsGo debut: "it doesn't matter how it goes; I'm not going to have a bad game because I've worked too hard to get back to playing and put this jersey on."

La formation du CH ce matin sur la glace du Centre Bell

Caufield-Suzuki-Newhook
Heineman-Evans-Roy
Anderson-Dvorak-Gallagher
Slafkovsky-Dach-Armia

Guhle-Barron
Hutson-Matheson
Xhekaj-Savard

En trop: Pezzetta, Struble

Shea Weber is in Montreal following his Hall of Fame induction and will be back at the Bell Centre for the first time since his playing days when he is honoured there Saturday night. Wrote about a “little thing that matters” and what it says about him as a leader: www.nytimes.com/athletic/591...

Had a chance to chat with Sam Montembeault and Cole Caufield about how their seasons are going, and while you would think they would be wildly different conversations, they weren’t. They’re in a similar place, which is healthy for both of them: www.nytimes.com/athletic/592...

@escapebox.bsky.social 🌱

shot, but the sky was so clear I forgot about the cold, I was in absolute awe at what I was seeing. The pinky area a 3rd of the way up the Milky Way is the North America nebula and in the top left you just about make out the Andromeda galaxy.

#photography

Giving up Twitter… heard it’s nice here… here is a picture I took from my front door. If you see it give me a follow….

good morning