{"id":164667,"date":"2025-09-23T21:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T21:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/164667\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T21:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T21:03:08","slug":"ivan-demidov-shows-frustration-at-canadiens-practice-st-louis-steps-in-to-comfort-his-young-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/164667\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivan Demidov Shows Frustration at Canadiens Practice, St-Louis Steps In to Comfort His Young Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/598550.webp.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photo of Ivan Demidov and Martin St-Louis\" title=\"Photo of Ivan Demidov and Martin St-Louis\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Screenshot<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tWe witnessed a heartwarming scene in the final minutes live from Brossard, involving Martin St-Louis and young <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Ivan-Demidov-69097\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Ivan Demidov profile and hockey stats\">Ivan Demidov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After a few tougher sequences, as reported by TVA Sports journalist Anthony Martineau, Demidov got frustrated.<\/p>\n<p>What happened next says a lot about the great atmosphere in Montreal right now.<\/p>\n<p>Martin St-Louis and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Kirby-Dach-52327\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Kirby Dach profile and hockey stats\">Kirby Dach<\/a> make a big gesture, immediately going to comfort Ivan Demidov<\/p>\n<p>See the footage, as reported by Martineau:<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, I love seeing this!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s very rare to see something like this during practice, but this was a big gesture by St-Louis toward his young player!<\/p>\n<p>You can clearly see it. Demidov seems to have genuinely appreciated the gesture, and it immediately lifted his spirits.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the kind of small gesture that can seriously help a young player like Demidov feel at home with the Montreal Canadiens.<\/p>\n<p>Special mention also to Kirby Dach, who also went to check on him.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Dach, let&#8217;s remember that he resumed his role at center for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Patrik-Laine-47809\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Patrik Laine profile and hockey stats\">Patrik Laine<\/a> and Ivan Demidov today during practice, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Oliver-Kapanen-65668\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Oliver Kapanen profile and hockey stats\">Oliver Kapanen<\/a> returned to a depth line.<\/p>\n<p>Ivan Demidov, 19, is a 6-foot-1, 192-pound forward drafted 5th overall in 2024 by the Montreal Canadiens.<\/p>\n<p>He recorded 49 points in 65 KHL games last season, as well as 2 points in 2 NHL games (in addition to 2 points in 5 playoff games).<\/p>\n<p>Previously on HabsFanatics<\/p>\n<p>POLL<\/p>\n<p>2 HOURS AGO\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0156 ANSWERS<\/p>\n<p>Ivan Demidov Shows Frustration at Canadiens Practice, St-Louis Steps In to Comfort His Young Star<\/p>\n<p>How many points do you see Ivan Demidov scoring this season?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo credit: Screenshot We witnessed a heartwarming scene in the final minutes live from Brossard, involving Martin St-Louis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[24898,49,48,6900,10396,13886,10397,743,448,82],"class_list":["post-164667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-brossard","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-images","tag-ivan-demidov","tag-kirby-dach","tag-martin-st-louis","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164667","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=164667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}