Amy Johnson

We'll start with the one you might not have heard of.

Nick Suzuki and his wife, Caitlin, made a little announcement on Instagram that Captain Suzuki is going to be Papa Suzuki in a few months.

Well, we'll see.

We will have to see.

Congratulations to them, though.

We'll keep an eye on that in the coming months.

So the big roster news kind of started earlier in the week on Tuesday when the Canadians announced Sam Montembeau being sent down to the AHL to the Laval Rocket on a conditioning stint.

Allegedly going to play to now the Rocket had already left for their road trip to Cleveland playing Thursday night and Saturday night in Cleveland and so he joined them in Cleveland and then and the idea would be that he'd get a couple of starts in LaValle.

We'll talk about him and his Laval stint a little bit more when we get to the Habs prospect report.

Mike Matheson listed day-to-day with an upper body injury, so he missed the games against Philadelphia and Chicago, but he will be back in the lineup on Saturday, I believe.

Mm-hmm.

Kirby Dock and Caden Gooley also skated on Friday morning.

Lina was there, not skating.

So why was that something that they needed to do?

Well, we said this a couple of weeks ago.

Make sure you keep your phone nearby on Friday nights this year.

This week, it didn't help that the holiday trade freeze, roster freeze, went into effect at midnight Friday night.

So there was a little flurry of activity on a Friday for that reason.

But with all of the rumblings and grumblings around, looks like it came through.

Canadians making a trade to basically reacquire Phil Deneau from the LA Kings on Friday night in exchange for the second round pick for the 2026 draft that they had gotten from Columbus.