{"id":416969,"date":"2026-01-20T01:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T01:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/416969\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T01:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T01:29:12","slug":"state-of-the-canadiens-rebuild-waivers-beck-roy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/416969\/","title":{"rendered":"State Of The Canadiens Rebuild, Waivers, Beck &#038; Roy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the latest Habs news, recent Montreal Canadiens stories, as well as information from around the National Hockey League.<\/p>\n<p>Habs News<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>National Hockey Now Network<\/p>\n<p>Boston Bruins head coach Jim Montgomery returned to Montreal to mourn after the unfortunate passing of his mother this week. [<a href=\"https:\/\/bostonhockeynow.com\/2023\/09\/27\/boston-bruins-montgomery-headed-home-to-montreal-to-mourn-mother\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\">Boston Bruins<\/a>]<br \/>\nNo Nashville Predators player will benefit more from the hiring of head coach Andrew Brunette than 22-year-old forward Philip Tomasino. [<a href=\"https:\/\/nashvillehockeynow.com\/2023\/09\/27\/preds-coaching-change-is-exactly-what-philip-tomasino-needed\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\">Nashville Predators<\/a>]<br \/>\nBy now you\u2019ve seen what he can do. Whether it\u2019s a hat trick in the Tom Kurvers Prospects Showcase, or sending perfect passes to teammates in a scrimmage, Connor Bedard is the real deal. But in a league that is seeing younger talent rise to the top quicker, is he the sure bet who is already an odds-on favourite to run away with the league\u2019s best rookie title? [<a href=\"https:\/\/buffalohockeynow.com\/2023\/09\/25\/sabres-looking-to-johnson-clifton-to-provide-chemistry\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a>]<br \/>\nDetroit Red Wings 2023 first-round draft pick Nate Danielson finds himself in an interesting juxtaposition as the 2023-24 hockey season is beginning to unfold. He is basically a player with one skate situated in two different hockey realms. [<a href=\"https:\/\/detroithockeynow.com\/2023\/09\/27\/red-wings-top-pick-danielson-nhl-preseason-debut-rasmussen-lalonde\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a>]<br \/>\nDenver Barkey\u2019s connections with Philadelphia Flyers executives are everywhere. Start with general manager Daniel Briere. Briere was undersized and Barkey knows it. Barkey was drafted in the third round (95th overall) in June. The Flyers list Barkey at 5-foot-9, 161 pounds. [<a href=\"https:\/\/phillyhockeynow.com\/2023\/09\/26\/mark-recchi-hired-as-blue-jackets-assistant-coach-philadelphia-flyers-nhl\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\">Philadelphia Flyers<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img alt=\"avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768872552_179_07ba55ead0c73509df880c421e3023e5ac7c7d9f55b4c9b9a5aeeb184bcdf689.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-70 photo\" height=\"70\" width=\"70\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\tMarc  has  been  covering  the  Habs  for  over  a  decade.  He  previously  worked  for  Journal  Metro,  The  Athletic,  The  &#8230; More about <a class=\"more-bio\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/author\/marc-dumont\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Dumont<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All the latest Habs news, recent Montreal Canadiens stories, as well as information from around the National Hockey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5103],"tags":[9201,265,14007,1526,6168,5,973,4167,1749,264,21,5147,4,16585,3568],"class_list":{"0":"post-416969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal-canadiens","8":"tag-alex-belzile","9":"tag-canadiens","10":"tag-canadiens-rebuild","11":"tag-habs-news","12":"tag-habs-prospect-highlights","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-joel-armia","15":"tag-joshua-roy","16":"tag-kent-hughes","17":"tag-montreal","18":"tag-montreal-canadiens","19":"tag-montrealcanadiens","20":"tag-nhl","21":"tag-nhl-waivers","22":"tag-owen-beck"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}