Following practice, president of hockey operations Jeff Gorton addressed the media for the first time since receiving his contract extension and promotion from the Canadiens.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s clear there\u2019s no place he\u2019d rather be than Montreal.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom the moment I got here, we added Kent [Hughes] and then Marty [St-Louis], and going through it\u2014it just felt right, more and more,\u201d said Gorton. \u201cIt\u2019s more about the environment I feel like we\u2019ve created, to be here and want to be here. The excitement of possibly winning here is just too great to pass up […]. We have an owner who\u2019s been great to all of us, and has been really supportive. It\u2019s a perfect situation for me. It just all kind of aligns. Coming here for the first time, I didn\u2019t really know what to expect. Obviously, you come here as a visiting team, and you know how great games are to watch here, and how historic this franchise is. To be part of it, to be lucky enough to be in the position I\u2019m in, sometimes you have to pinch yourself from the opportunities you get, so that\u2019s where I\u2019m at.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Canadiens will look to stay perfect on home ice when they host the Nashville Predators on Thursday. It\u2019s also Desk Calendar Night presented by Air Canada, so the first 15,000 fans through the doors will receive a planner. For tickets, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following practice, president of hockey operations Jeff Gorton addressed the media for the first time since receiving his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-215463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215463","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=215463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}