The exhibition season is nearly over and the NHL regular season is around the corner. The HabsWorld podcast crew returned to discuss recent hockey events. Host Norm Szcyrek was joined by cohosts Paul MacLeod, Sean Cayouette, and Jonathan Rebelo to talk about our beloved Montreal Canadiens, several NHL topics, and share a lot of laughs. This podcast was recorded on the evening of October 3rd 2024.

We have a full roster of topics including:

- Introductions, Habs trivia

- Habs prospect viewings at training camp and exhbition games including: Hutson, Kapanen, Mesar, Tuch, Heineman, Engstrom, Trudeau, Mailloux, Reinbacher

- Ideas discussed to improving the preseason format

- Patrik Laine injury and debating the course of treatment

- Analyzing the Laine trade

- Talk about the Canadiens team season expectations before the Laine injury, and after the Laine injury

- Kaiden Guhle's expected return from appendectomy surgery

- David Reinbacher injury

- Ivan Demidov's strong play to start the season, 2nd on SKA scoring despite playing only a few shifts in his last game October 3rd

- Focus on the rough game against Ottawa, with several high hits

- Arber & Florian Xhekaj bought a sports car for their father

- Which forward will garner the most ice time on the second line with Dach and Newhook: Anderson, Armia, Roy or Kapanen

- With the team's powerplay unable to score so far, ideas to improve it for the regular season were discussed

- Which defencemen will make the final cut to start the season

- Around the NHL: trade rumour that Edmonton has interest in Justin Barron; NHL documentary series on Amazon & Canadiens "Rebuild" documentary series on Crave; discussing the Habs behind the scene draft video; is there any potential to trade with the Rangers for Kahkkonen or the Bruins for Swayman; talk about the St. Louis Blues double offer sheet against Edmonton that was successful

To help the Canadiens fortunes this season, we offer a virtual sage burning and encourage other Habs fans to do the same or something similar to generate good luck to our team this seaosn.

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