As we’re just two weeks away from opening training camps across the NHL, the smell of hockey is growing all around us.

for the occasion the trainer Bob Hartley took advantage of his time on the ether of BPM sports during the broadcast The return of the athletes to reveal his lines he would send into the game early in the season if he were the head coach of the Montreal Canadiens.

Assuming everyone at CH is healthy, their roster would look like this at the start of the season.

FORWARDERS
Cole Caufield Nick Suzuki Kirby Dach
Alex Newhook – Sean Monahan – Brendan Gallagher
Juraj Slafkovsky – Christian Dvorak – Josh Anderson
Rafael Harvey Pinard – Jake Evans – Joel Armia

DEFENDER
Mike Matheson-David Savard
Jordan Harris-Kaiden Guhle
Arber Xhekaj – Johnathan Kovacevic

GUARDIAN
Samuel Montembeault
Jake Allen

These are surprising combinations to say the least.

Hartley explains that he wants to try and give the team a chance to create excitement early in the season and find themselves in the playoff race. In the optics where the CH would lose ground it would be transmitting at that point Kirby Dash in the middle for example.

It should also be borne in mind that it is unlikely that the attacker Christian Dvorak starts the season at the same time as his teammates who are recovering from knee surgery.

Do you agree with his view on trios? Would you be happy to see it? Martin St.Louis Starting the season with such an orientation?