

“It’ll be fun to see old teammates, some fans there. “That was one game on my schedule that I looked out for,” he said. The 21-year-old Kotkaniemi and his Hurricanes will be in Montreal on Thursday night for a game that was circled the moment his move was made official. The Canadiens, of course, decided to walk away from the contract with Kotkaniemi despite selecting him third overall in the 2018 NHL draft. “Didn’t think about that too much, just try to live my normal life during that. “That week went really fast,” Kotkaniemi recalled Tuesday. MONTREAL (AP) - After signing a surprising offer sheet in restricted free agency with the Carolina Hurricanes in late August, Jesperi Kotkaniemi waited seven days to see if the Montreal Canadiens would match the one-year, $6.1 million deal.
