UNDATED (AP) — Carey Price is preparing to return to the Montreal Canadiens.
The superstar goalie will rejoin the team on Monday, according to Montreal coach Dominique Ducharme. He says Price will meet with athletic therapists and develop a plan moving forward.
Price voluntarily entered the NHL’s player assistance program on Oct. 7. No official reason was given as to why Price entered the program, but his wife, Angela, cited mental health in an Instagram post when the news first broke that he would miss the start of the season.
In other NHL news:
— Lightning defenseman Mikhail Sergachev has been suspended for two games without pay for an illegal check to the head of Toronto’s Mitch Marner. The incident occurred in the first period of the Maple Leafs’ 2-1 overtime victory Thursday night in Toronto.
— The Blue Jackets says forward Patrik Laine will miss four to six weeks with an oblique strain suffered in Wednesday’s overtime win against Colorado. Columbus also will play Saturday without Max Domi, who was put into quarantine after testing positive for the coronavirus on Sunday.
— The Sharks have reassigned promising rookie forward William Eklund to his club team in Sweden. The 7th pick in this year’s draft had four assists in nine games and didn’t look overmatched in his first stint in the NHL. But the Sharks opted to send him back to Sweden before he played his 10th game, which would have triggered the first year of his three-year entry contract.
