Habs Daily: Sabres Series Preview, Demidov Calder, Pickford

Canadiens prospect Bryce Pickford was named the top defenceman in the WHL, which is far from surprising when we consider he enjoyed an elite season from an offensive standpoint. In 55 regular-season games, Pickford scored an incredible 45 goals and 38 assists. He would go on to add another 12 points to his tally in the playoffs.

It’s difficult not to get a kick out of the NHL naming Darren Raddysh’s useless goal in Game 1 of the first-round series versus the Lightning as the ‘Moment of the Round’. Does anyone want to tell the NHL that the Lightning actually lost that game, not to mention the series?

To Nikita Kucherov’s credit, he loses with a lot more grace than when he wins, though that’s a very low bar to clear.

We have to give it to Jakub Dobes, that’s a solid chirp in a heated moment, and it turned out he was right.

The Laval Rocket evened their series versus the Toronto Marlies (2-2), with a dominant 4-0 win on Tuesday. Alex Belzile (2), Samuel Blais (2, 3), and Laurent Dauphin (2) provided the goals for Laval, while Kaapo Kahkonen stopped all 18 shots sent his way to secure the shutout.