{"id":103560,"date":"2025-08-28T16:42:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T16:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/103560\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T16:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T16:42:14","slug":"ivan-demidovs-friend-slips-up-and-reveals-the-one-thing-young-star-doesnt-like-about-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/103560\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivan Demidov&#8217;s Friend Slips Up and Reveals the One Thing Young Star Doesn&#8217;t Like About Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ivan Demidov&#8217;s Friend Slips Up and Reveals the One Thing Young Star Doesn&#8217;t Like About Montreal <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/591067.webp.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Apr 14, 2025; Montreal, Quebec, CAN; Montreal Canadiens right wing Ivan Demidov (93) skates on the ice during warm-up before his first career NHL game against the Chicago Blackhawks at Bell Centre. Mandatory Credit: David Kirouac-Imagn Images\" title=\"Apr 14, 2025; Montreal, Quebec, CAN; Montreal Canadiens right wing Ivan Demidov (93) skates on the ice during warm-up before his first career NHL game against the Chicago Blackhawks at Bell Centre. Mandatory Credit: David Kirouac-Imagn Images\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: David Kirouac-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>Most of Gritsyuk&#8217;s answers were extremely positive, but there was one detail that stood out &#8211; something he let slip at the very end of the interview.<\/p>\n<p>New Jersey Devils&#8217; Arseny Gritsyuk reveals the only thing his friend Ivan Demidov doesn&#8217;t like about Montreal<\/p>\n<p>There are players who love attention, who love being &#8220;a star&#8221;, but that&#8217;s clearly not the case for the young Demidov.<\/p>\n<p>However, since settling in town (he&#8217;s been in Montreal since the very start of the summer), he&#8217;s realized what it truly means.. to be a Canadiens player.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Overall, everything is going well for him,&#8221; Gritsyuk summarized.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only negative side is all the attention, but that&#8217;s a small price to pay for all the good things happening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, Demidov is clearly not someone who enjoys all that attention, especially when he&#8217;s at a restaurant. But despite that, it&#8217;s important to emphasize that he truly loves Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People recognize him everywhere,&#8221; Gritsyuk said. &#8220;We were in a restaurant and someone came up: &#8216;Are you Ivan Demidov?&#8217; Vanya answered, &#8216;No, sorry, you&#8217;ve got the wrong person.&#8217; And this was in Ottawa!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s only one small negative point, but thousands of positives for him.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s definitely a very interesting interview!<\/p>\n<p>Previously on HabsFanatics<\/p>\n<p>POLL<\/p>\n<p>2 HOURS AGO\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0184 ANSWERS<\/p>\n<p>Ivan Demidov&#8217;s Friend Slips Up and Reveals the One Thing Young Star Doesn&#8217;t Like About Montreal<\/p>\n<p>Would you trade a 2nd-round pick for Arseny Gritsyuk (Ivan Demidov&#8217;s best friend)?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tHABSFANATICS.COM<br \/>COPYRIGHT @2025 &#8211; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.habsfanatics.com\/terms\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TERMS<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.habsfanatics.com\/politic\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">POLICIES<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ivan Demidov&#8217;s Friend Slips Up and Reveals the One Thing Young Star Doesn&#8217;t Like About Montreal Photo credit:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[59519,49,48,4150,10396,743,749,44,448,82],"class_list":["post-103560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-arseny-gritsyuk","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-interview","tag-ivan-demidov","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-new-jersey-devils","tag-news","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}