Reason Martin St-Louis Isn't Allowed on the Ice in Brossard During Summer Has Been Revealed
In the past few hours, live from Brossard, we basically witnessed a full practice of the Montreal Canadiens, or almost.
The players were practically all present, we saw regular drills, and some lines have already even been formed..
Juraj Slafkovsky, Oliver Kapanen, Alex Newhook, Zachary Bolduc, Ivan Demidov, Joe Veleno, Samuel Blais, Brendan Gallagher, Nick Suzuki, Patrik Laine, Jake Evans, Kirby Dach, Mike Matheson, Alexandre Carrier, Kaiden Guhle, Arber Xhekaj, Noah Dobson, Jayden Struble, Lane Hutson, Jakub Dobes, and Kaapo Kahkonen were notably all on the ice.
That said, one very important name was missing.. Martin St-Louis!
Many of you have asked the question, but why wasn't the head coach of the Montreal Canadiens there?
Martin St-Louis is currently prohibited from being in Brossard to run practices with his players
You read that right.
It is outright forbidden by the National Hockey League's collective bargaining agreement.
"Gary Bettman and the NHL formally forbid NHL teams from organizing practices or sending regular coaches onto the ice before the start of training camps."
This prohibition therefore applies to Martin St-Louis, but also to all the regular coaches of the Montreal Canadiens.
"Finally, I was told that the ice times were paid for and reserved by the Canadiens themselves, but that the club was not allowed to send its regular coaches onto the ice and could not hold planned/organized sessions either.
This is forbidden by the collective bargaining agreement until the opening of training camp."
- Maxime Truman
This is forbidden by the collective bargaining agreement until the opening of training camp."
- Maxime Truman
It is indeed an interesting detail to know, and that explains it all.
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