Cole Caufield: The Canadiens sent their message to USA Hockey on social media

As you may have seen, the Canadiens beat the Wild tonight.

What gave the Canadiens the win was Cole Caufield's seventh game-winning goal of the season. He found the back of the net with 15 seconds remaining.

Result: a 4-3 Habs win.

Of course, as you no doubt know, the Canadiens publish videos of their goals during games. Normally, one message is in French, the other in English.

This time, the Habs only had one message: they identified the Hockey USA account.

.@usahockey pic.twitter.com/jUck62SBbY

– Montreal Canadiens (@CanadiensMTL) January 21, 2026

Of course, everyone knows that Bill Guerin, the GM of the Minnesota Wild, is also the one who made the decision not to make room for the Habs scorer on the U.S. Olympic roster.

Guerin didn't make room for Lane Hutson either… and the latter had an assist on the winning goal, as well as scoring a beautiful goal on an assist from Ivan Demidov.

The Ivan Demidov & Lane Hutson chemistry is special

pic.twitter.com/ROQkXGkdoi

– /r/Habs (@HabsOnReddit) January 21, 2026

The Canadiens are a Canadian team, and Caufield's absence will only help the Canadian squad next month at the Olympics.

But the Habs' X account admin preached to his parish more than anything else, which is the NHL club.

I like to see that. A little spice on social networks is always comical to follow… as long as it stays on social networks and doesn't spill over.

And Caufield understood that, not wanting to overdo it after the game, in front of the media, when he learned what the Canadiens had decided to tweet. #GoodDecision

Cole Caufield didn't know about the Montreal Canadiens tagging USA Hockey on the tweet of his goal.

After some and nervous laughter, he responded by saying he was just happy to win the game.

Had an opportunity to take a shot and chose to focus on the positive.

– Marco D'Amico (@mndamico) January 21, 2026

extension

If the Americans ever run out of attacking punch at the Games, Guerin will be blamed for not picking a guy like Caufield at the end of the tournament. The same goes for Jason Robertson.

To be continued.