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Nick Suzuki: “We don’t have anyone like Lane Hutson in Montreal”

 Christopher Brown
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Nick Suzuki: “We don’t have anyone like Lane Hutson in Montreal”
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At this training camp, Lane Hutson is one of the players we’re keeping a close eye on. The defenseman, who is fighting for a position, is one of the team’s bright prospects.

Above all, he’s an electrifying guy on the ice.

So far, Hutson is playing like a guy who wants nothing to do with starting the year in Laval. He’s stealing the show at camp, and he really looks like a special player.

And it’s not just me who says so: in a video clip published by the Habs’ X account, Nick Suzuki chats a bit about the defenseman with Macklin Celebrini (who played with Hutson in the NCAA)… and the captain had some good things to say about the kid:

We don’t have anyone like [Lane Hutson] in Montreal. – Nick Suzuki

Suzuki is mostly referring to the youngster’s confidence, which is quite high. In particular, he tells Celebrini that in his very first NHL game, Hutson was already giving directions to his teammates by calling a play.

You can tell he’s not afraid to take his place.

Celebrini, for his part, believes in his former teammate’s chances of making the club this season. It’s interesting to see the Habs account share this sequence: you have to take some and leave some, of course, but you have to wonder if it would have been shared if the most likely avenue for the kid was to return to Laval to start the year.

But clearly, Hutson is a pretty special young player in the eyes of many. It’s not for nothing that there’s already talk of him dislodging Mike Matheson from the first wave of the power play, either now or in the future.

That said, if Hutson continues to play like this and maintains his confidence, he really does look like a player who’s in a good position to start the year in Montreal.

He probably had a position to lose at camp… and he’s not leaving his chair to another player.


Overtime

– I don’t see him leaving either.

– Martin St-Louis doesn’t talk to his players on the night the club loses. He’d rather let the dust settle than say something emotional.

– The Habs prospect will join the University of Maine. He was scheduled to play in the QMJHL this season.

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