Phillip Danault

But, um, they were great.

Suzuki 58.3%, Newhook 77%, Danault 50 on the nose, Jake Evans 58%.

Hey, Kirby Dach even chipped in with one.

So did Cole Caufield.

Give it to him.

Yes, Philip Danault applies good pressure, as Philip Danault does.

But I'd rather you send a bad pass into the neutral zone than none.

Then Habs get possession of the puck.

...

Jeff Gorton goes and gets Philip Danault.

Like that's a smart deal.

Like you look at them down the middle of the ice, like they're-

Pour ceux qui l'ont pas vu, c'était ça les trios euh à l'entraînement hier.

Sutrie avec Caufield puis Kreider, Newhook au centre de Dahmen puis Slafkovsky, Phil Danault avec Kirby Dach puis Alex Texier, Jake Evans avec Anderson puis Bolduc.

Extra, Florian Xhekaj.

À la défense, Matheson-Dobson, Hudson-Carrier, Struble-Xhekaj.

You, you see Cole Caufield crack the 50 goal mark.

You have Danault who has it...

In my opinion, when he becomes the best player in the league, that's when they'll be ready to contend, and that could happen in the short future.

He's that talented.

"This is how we got here, and we have to embrace this and embrace the responsibilities that come with pushing this forward." And so you're seeing it in camp, like the commitment level.

Like, there's a culture that's grown around Montreal, Mike, that it's not just Danault and Hutson who are in these videos that you see all the time that are on the ice early and all the time.

Like, the whole-

Shooting with the opposite hand [laughs]

Yeah.

Um, who else did we have? Uh, well, Danault scored two goals.

[chuckles]

Yes, yes.

He was not on a line.

He was just a spare, so.

So who's the fourth line then? Anderson, Danault? It was Doc, uh, Evans, and, um, Anderson.

So the third line was- The third line was- No, fourth line is Anderson ... like Bolduc and- Oh, yeah, Bolduc, I forgot ... yeah, Bolduc, Anderson, Texier or something like that, and yeah, it was Evans and Doc and whatever the hell.

Like he, I think he could take a step forward, but I'm not betting on that.

I like Phil Danault as their third line center.

But there's a couple guys in the second tier, like you got those five players, and then you got Dobson as well, who I guess you could rope in there too.

They're not gonna take a step back.

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... right? Like they didn't do any- they haven't done anything like off-season nothing.

I guess Chris Kreider, but-- And then last year's Phil Danault, which they got in December.

Yeah.