by Montreal Canadiens @CanadiensMTL / Press Release November 28, 2021
MONTREAL – Geoff Molson, Owner, President, and Chief Executive Officer of the Club de hockey Canadien, has announced that Marc Bergevin, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Trevor Timmins, Assistant General Manager, as well as Paul Wilson, Senior Vice President, Public Affairs and Communications, have been relieved of their respective functions, effective immediately.
A process to recruit, as soon as possible, the team’s next General Manager is under way. While the next General Manager will bring significant hockey expertise to the organization, an additional criterion of that person’s role will be to communicate with fans in both French and English.
To assure the continuity of the day-to-day hockey operations during this process, Mr. Molson has retained the services of Jeff Gorton, who will serve as Executive Vice President, Hockey Operations.
“On behalf of myself and the organization, I wish to thank Marc Bergevin, Trevor Timmins, and Paul Wilson for their passion and engagement towards our Club over the last years. Their relentless work allowed our fans to experience many memorable moments, including last summer’s playoff run that culminated with the Stanley Cup Final. We wish them all the success they deserve in the pursuit of their careers.
I think, however, that the time has come for a leadership change within our hockey operations department that will bring a new vision and should allow our fans and partners to continue cheering for a championship team,” said Geoff Molson.”
Mr. Molson will address the media at a press conference on Monday at 11:00 a.m. at the Bell Sports Complex in Brossard.
Tonight marks the first of two meetings between the Canucks and Bruins this season: Nov. 28 (road), Dec. 8 (home).
Vancouver is 5-5-0 in their last 10 games vs Boston (4-1-0 in their last 5).
The Canucks have a 34-72-15-2 all-time record in 123 games against the Bruins. Vancouver holds a 12-42-7-1 record on the road against Boston.
Thatcher Demko has only played 1:48 minutes against the Bruins and has yet to face a Boston shot.
Jaroslav Halak has faced the Bruins 17 times in his career (8-9-0), owning a .925 SV% and a 2.39 GAA.
QUICK NUMBERS
Nils Höglander has five points (4-1-5) in his last eight games.
J.T. Miller has 11 points (6-5-11) in his last 13 games.
Quinn Hughes has eight points (0-8-8) in his last 10 games.
LAST MEETING – FEB. 22/20: VAN 9 vs BOS 3
The Canucks recorded a season high for goals scored (9)…Tyler Toffoli recorded three points (2-1-3) and was named the first star in his second game with the Canucks…Troy Stecher recorded a career high 3-point game (1-2-3)…J.T. Miller tied a career high for most assists in a game (3)…Bo Horvat scored a goal and an assist (1-1-2), recorded 5 shots and won 10 face-offs (83%)…14 Canucks players recorded points and 7 players had multi-point games including Loui Eriksson (1-1-2), Alex Edler (0-2-2) and Quinn Hughes (0-2- 2)…Quinn Hughes became the second Canucks rookie blueliner to record 40 or more assists in a season…Oscar Fantenberg and Tyler Motte led the team in hits (6)… Chris Tanev led the team in blocked shots (5)…Jacob Markstrom faced 37 shots.
LAST GAME PLAYED – NOV. 26/21: VAN 2 at CBJ 4
Vasily Podkolzin opened up scoring for this Canucks at 19:31 in the first period to tie up the game…Justin Dowling recorded his first assist of the season on the play…Tyler Motte scored his first goal of the season to tie up the game at the end of the second period…Quinn Hughes and Alex Chiasson registered assists…Bo Horvat led the team in shots (5)…Tyler Myers led the team in blocked shots (4)…Quinn Hughes led the team in TOI (25:40)…Thatcher Demko faced 20 shots.
RECENT TRANSACTIONS
Luke Schenn activated from injured reserve, Nov. 24
Travis Hamonic loaned to Abbotsford, Nov. 22
Justin Bailey designated for assignment to Abbotsford, Nov. 18
Guillaume Brisebois designated for assignment to Abbotsford, Nov. 16
CANUCKS RAISE $1 MILLION FOR BC FLOOD RELIEF
Canucks Sports &Entertainment and the Canucks for Kids Fund announced Tuesday that $1 million has been raised in support of flood relief efforts in Abbotsford, the Fraser Valley, and throughout British Columbia through three special 50/50 raffles during the team’s latest homestand from November 17-21.
TOP TWENTY
Netting his sixth goal of the season on Nov. 24 at PIT, Bo Horvat tied Mattias Ohlund for 20th place on the franchise all-time points list with 325 points (145-180-325). Horvat also ranks inside the top 20 in Canucks history for goals (145; 15th), power play goals (44; 16th), shorthanded goals (7; t-9th) and game-winning goals (17; t-19th).
HOMETOWN GLORY
Burying his first career NHL goal in front of the home crowd on Nov. 19 vs WPG, Vancouver-born Kyle Burroughs became the 11th BC-born defenceman in club history to score a regular season goal, and just the fourth Lower Mainland product to do so, joining Troy Stecher, Jason Garrison, and Chris Joseph. He also joined Troy Stecher and Doug Lidster as just the third BC-born defenceman to score his first career NHL goal with the Canucks.
NO NIGHTS OFF
Canucks captain Bo Horvat has now appeared in 264 consecutive regular season games, ranking 10th among active skaters in the NHL for most consecutive games played. Previous Canucks captain Henrik Sedin remains the franchise leader in consecutive games played (679), which still ranks 10th all-time in League history.
AT FACE VALUE
Bo Horvat leads all NHL skaters in face-offs taken (500), face-off wins (289) and even strength face-off wins (216) so far this season. Among centremen with at least 250 face-offs taken, Horvat’s face-off percentage (57.8%) t-9th League-wide, one spot behind teammate J.T. Miller (57.9%).
MIGHTY MILLER
Collecting an assist on Nils Höglander’s goal on Nov. 14 at ANA, J.T. Miller matched a career-best eight-game point streak (6-4-10), initially set during the 2019.20 season (5-6-11 from Nov. 21-Dec. 7/19). On Nov. 13 at VGK, Miller went 11-for-11 in the face-off circle, becoming the third player in Canucks history to win 100 percent of face-offs in a game with a minimum of 10 face-offs taken, joining Brandon Sutter (10/10, Feb. 4/16) and Byron Ritchie (10/10, Feb. 19/06).
ON THE COUNT OF THREE
Quinn Hughes collected his first three-point outing of the season (0-3-3) and seventh career three-assist game on Nov. 7 vs DAL, with all assists coming on the power play. At 22 years old, Hughes ranks t-7th all time among NHL defencemen for most games (7) with three or more assists before the age of 23.
RECENT CANUCKS MILESTONES
Kyle Burroughs scored his 1st career NHL goal, Nov. 19 vs WPG
Juho Lammikko appeared in his 100th career game, Nov. 14 @ ANA
Luke Schenn appeared in his 800th career game, Oct. 30 vs EDM
Brock Boeser recorded his 100th career goal, Oct. 30 vs EDM
