Arber Xhekaj has just broken the silence, he sends a huge message and he will not be returning to the Canadiens so quickly

Arber Xhekaj on the Habs' decision to send him to the AHL:

"It was a bit of a surprise.. from their point of view, it made sense. They want to see me play a lot of minutes and develop my game." - Arber Xhekaj

"It looks like Arber will be in Laval for a while." - HFTV

"Obviously it's hard, no one likes to go down, but I'm here now and can only go up. There's a good group of players, and I met many of them when I came back this summer." - Arber

"I wasn't given a deadline, I was just told it was coming and he needed to improve." - J-F Houle