Rick Stevens

He mentioned physicality.

And I think we'd all agree, anyone who watched that game against the Sabres, on the forward side, the Canadians need a physical presence, some physical forwards.

Florian Jacki, and have to figure out a way of bringing some size and physicality to their forward complement.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, it may not be with respect to trades, but there may be some movement with the injured players coming back.

And we'll see if there's any surprises.

Yeah, I think so.

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Well, it must have been a pleasure to come to the podium and answer questions, media questions this past week for Kent Hughes because his Montreal Canadiens are, as we go to air,

sitting first in the Atlantic Division.

Big game tonight against the Detroit Red Wings.

They're near the top of the Eastern Conference.

And yeah, Kent Hughes got to talk about what's going well and what's next, I guess, for the Canadians in the second half and beyond that.

And I think part of it, too, is Jordan Binnington was named to the Canadian Olympic squad, and he showed why there, I suppose.

But the Canadians had come into this game with a seven-game point streak and just couldn't really...

Well, it's not that they couldn't generate opportunities.

They couldn't finish opportunities.

They just didn't look ready to start.

An odd start time, as you mentioned.