Kent Hughes: the two factors that contributed to bringing in Ivan Demidov now

It’s official: the Canadiens will play Ivan Demidov tonight. He will play with Joel Armia and Alex Newhook. Additionally, he will have ice time on the second powerplay unit.
And as you know, expectations are high right now for Demidov.
Russian Demidov will speak to the media after the game, but Kent Hughes, the GM of the Habs, took the time to speak to the media before tonight’s game. Here’s what that looks like.First, we note that the GM mentions that he did not pay the SKA to