Luke Mittelstadt

And the Canadians win it back.

Here goes Luke Mittelstadt, cross-ice feed, off the boards, wanted Kreider, that was swatted away by Nicholas Matampalo.

Now Caulfield over to Nick Suzuki.

He'll play it into the Ottawa zone.

And when Montreal's able to connect with a pass through the neutral zone inside Dots, then all of a sudden there's a wall of three players and then that forcing Suzuki to then look for a kick out, but then his kick out option is also covered, so it's really kind of flustering them a little bit, and it's denying their entry with possession.

Sens played out through center, gonna be scooped up by Alexandre Carrier.

Over to Luke Mittelstadt, back to Carrier, up to center.

Carrier crosses the line, hands off for Suzuki right side.

Out of the near side.

Pressure from Luke Mittelstadt forces Jackson Cover to sling it around the boards.

Habs stay with it on the forecheck.

Middlestad pinching it again.

He's a really good young player that teams very much like watching in the American Hockey League.

So if the Canadiens were to complete a trade to improve in the top six, my hunch is that Adam Engstrom would be one of the, one of the trade bait options that they would use to do that, considering their depth on the left side, and the arrival of Luke Mittelstadt, who really looked good in his first preseason game for the Montreal Canadiens in Montreal.

Let me see.

I got another question here I wanted to put up here.

You were playing basically against their third line and the top six of the Toronto Marlies, right? So it's, it's not, it's not the same thing, uh, to...

You know, like, that's why I, you know, a lot of people were also very, uh, you know, very strong in the praise for, for Luke Mittelstadt, and very much so.

Right.

But again, defensively, I found when his pairing was on the ice with Samson against the Colton Sissons line, they, they had a little bit of trouble containing them.

Battle for it, far wing.

Comes over to Luke Mittelstadt from the line.

Over to Sampson, his shot through traffic is caught and frozen by Levine.

different energy level by Montreal right now they're all over Toronto making it very very difficult to get two loose pucks or make a clean play off of a puck recovery they're just all over them the moment they get the recovery or they steal the puck back everybody's in motion and they're using all five players really well the D have been really really active and mobile and available to

Stetcher takes it away and spins it over to Mermis.

Now Toronto to center, tipped in by Tverberg.

And the Leafs will complete a full line change as Luke Mittelstadt starts to center for the Canadiens.

Hooks off to Demidov.

Uh, so one win, one loss.

And, uh, who wore the letters for both of those games? Well, Luke Mittelstadt was named the captain, and his alternates were Tyler Thorpe and Dylan Bentley.

Like M- Luke Mittelstadt a lot.

Um, very mature, um, guy.

Keep an eye on him.

Let's get to them.

On defense, Alexander Carrier, Jacob Dion, Noah Dobson, Aiden Dubinsky, Adam Engstrom, Kaiden Guhle, Brayden Hesch, um, Lane Hudson, Mike Matheson, Kale McCallum, Luke Mittelstadt, Bryce Pickford, Owen Protts, David Reinbacher.

Again, same que- oh, uh, sorry, pardon me.

Ethan Samson-