{"id":74708,"date":"2025-08-16T18:52:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T18:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/74708\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T18:52:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T18:52:16","slug":"ivan-demidov-just-dropped-a-big-hint-about-the-identity-of-his-next-linemate-in-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/74708\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivan Demidov Just Dropped a Big Hint About the Identity of his Next Linemate in Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ivan Demidov Just Dropped a Big Hint About the Identity of his Next Linemate in Montreal <\/p>\n

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Photo credit: David Kirouac-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

The Montreal Canadiens’ 2025 training camp is approaching quickly, and clearly, we will have several interesting storylines to follow.<\/p>\n

And we will also need to follow what happens on the team’s second line.<\/p>\n

Who will be the team’s much-talked-about second center?<\/p>\n

A hint on young Ivan Demidov’s linemate<\/p>\n

All signs point to that being the case.<\/p>\n

Laine and Demidov have been training together constantly since the end of last season, making special plays with each other, and they are clearly developing some great chemistry.<\/p>\n

During the three-on-three drills and in the small improvised games in Brossard this summer, they are always together on the same line, and they dominate.<\/p>\n

The 3-on-3 drill in tight space produced some beautiful plays, like in this sequence highlighting Patrik Laine and Ivan Demidov.<\/p>\n

It seems obvious that those two will start next season on the same line.<\/p>\n

Demidov also had some very kind words for Laine recently!<\/p>\n

The next question, then, is who will be the team’s second center.<\/p>\n

If it could work with Zachary Bolduc<\/a> or Kirby Dach<\/a>, that would really be ideal, but if not, Kent Hughes will clearly have to turn to the NHL trade market.<\/p>\n

Previously on HabsFanatics<\/p>\n

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