With all the recent talk about who the Montreal Canadiens should target at the upcoming NHL Draft, let us look at the development of the Canadiens’ highest draft pick since 1980, Juraj Slafkovsky.
The World Championship hasn’t started yet, but Juraj Slafkovsky is doing well. Very well, in fact. The man who finished the season with a bang with the Habs is a member of Slovakia’s World Championship squad, which kicks off in the next few days.
Juraj Slafkovsky was selected with the first overall pick in the 2022 draft. Just before the draft, we remember that Slaf said he was volunteering to play on the left of Nick Suzuki and Cole Caufield because the Habs were looking for a guy to complete the first line… And it finally happened this season.
The more time passes, the more we talk about the draft. After all, in Montreal, that’s what you have to watch out for. Yesterday, Arpon Basu revealed that the Habs love Ivan Demidov, and that the Habs could move up, if need be, to draft him.
Montreal Canadiens forward Juraj Slafkovsky enjoyed a great second half of his sophomore season, finishing the year with 20 goals and 50 assists in 82 games.
This morning, the site reported that Juraj Slafkovsky had stayed in Montreal for medical reasons. This followed information from Slovak journalist Tomas Prokop.
This season, Juraj Slafkovsky played in all 82 games for the Canadiens. In fact, he improved visibly in just about every game the Flanelle played in his second season in the best league in the world.
Someone must have put a curse on Juraj Slafkovsky! After having to endure one of the most unfortunate sports articles of the past year in the Journal de Québec, where Jean-Nicolas Blanchet established that he was one of the four worst first-round picks of the last 50 years AFTER 50 career games (!!!
Drafting again a few years later is a hobby some people never get tired of. If we had it to do over again, Lane Hutson would probably be drafted in the top 15 and not at the end of the second round in 2022… If it were to happen again, the Canadiens would never have selected Louis Leblanc in the first round… You get the idea.
In 2023-2024, the Habs didn’t move up in the standings, but many of their players did. Of the lot? The first line, made up of Nick Suzuki, Cole Caufield and Josh Anderson Juraj Slafkovsky.
We all know it: Juraj Slafkovsky had a great season with the Habs. He was a bit slow at the beginning of the campaign… But he quickly became an important cog in Martin St-Louis’ formation when he was placed on the team’s first line, alongside Nick Suzuki and Cole Caufield.
Finally! The 2023-2024 season came to an end tonight against the Detroit Red Wings. The game had no significant stakes for the Habs, but the opposite was true for the opponents, who were playing for their season.
Everything has been said about Juraj Slafkovsky. He’s been the talk of the town for a while now, because he’s playing the right way and the results are there.
The Montreal Canadiens have drafted an influx of talent hailing from the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) in recent years, scattered across all seven rounds.
Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky… Slafkovsky! Thanks to an excellent friend (let’s call him “Scoop”) who regularly gets me great tickets to excellent “gratissssss”
As we await signing news regarding Lane Hutson and his entry-level contract, we have time to take a look at what the top prospect can bring to the table for the Montreal Canadiens.
Juraj Slafkovsky recorded his first career hat trick and Christian Dvorak and Brendan Gallagher each scored two goals, lifting the host Montreal Canadiens to a 9-3 victory over the free-falling Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday.
If you were to look only at the results, it would be easy to call this season a disaster for the Montreal Canadiens. But the 2023-24 campaign has just been another part of the process that head coach Martin St.
One month into the NHL season, Montreal Canadiens forward Juraj Slafkovsky was at a crossroads with just one goal and two points. At the time, it felt like he really just needed a reset with the AHL’s Laval Rocket.
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The pressure was on Juraj Slafkovsky the minute the Montreal Canadiens made the surprising decision to select him first overall in 2022. There are very few markets like Montreal, the only one with a real language power struggle.
The 2023-24 NHL season is through its first month, so let's look at some winners and losers.
The Montreal Canadiens find themselves in a quandary regarding the progress of Juraj Slafkovsky, the first-overall pick who has yet to find his footing in the NHL this season.
Montreal Canadiens’ rising star, Juraj Slafkovsky, is determined to make a stronger impact in the 2023-24 NHL season after facing some challenges in his rookie year.
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