Serge Savard<\/a> suggested that defenseman Lane Hutson \u201cis probably the most talented player the Canadiens have had since Guy Lafleur.\u201d You\u2019ve seen Hutson play, what\u2019s your take on him?<\/p>\n\u201cLane is a skilled player, a good skater with good vision. He\u2019s got a good future. His first season was last year, so now it\u2019s going to be tougher and tougher because opponents know the way he plays. He\u2019ll need to improve himself every day, every game. As long as he does that, he\u2019s got an excellent future. He needs to work hard and listen to what the coach wants from him. It\u2019s all in his hands.\u201d<\/p>\n
Your last game on home ice for the Canadiens was more than eight years ago, on April 20, 2017, but you\u2019ll be recognized by fans most everywhere you go during this visit. Does that surprise you?<\/p>\n
\u201cCanadiens fans have incredible passion for the game and their team. I\u2019m surprised that any time I come back, people know me and want to shake my hand. The love of the fans is something that is very important to me. I\u2019ll never forget that, and I\u2019ll never forget them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Top photo: Top photo: Andrei Markov salutes the crowd after being named first star of the game against the Ottawa Senators at Montreal\u2019s Bell Centre on March 25, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you left the Canadiens in 2017, many were unhappy that you finished just 10 games shy of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-319865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319865","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=319865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}