(Philadelphia) Sean Farrell will play his first-ever NHL game on Tuesday night.
The Canadian has confirmed that the attacker, who played in the university ranks again last week, will be in uniform against the Philadelphia Flyers.
Farrell drove straight to the City of Brotherly Love on Monday and got to know his new teammates and staff members on Tuesday morning. He has never trained with the team before.
The 5-foot-9 winger just wrapped up his second season with Harvard University. He had 53 points in 34 games, ranking him second in the entire NCAA. He is also nominated for the Hobey-Baker Trophy, awarded to the player par excellence of the year.
Last season, he took part in the Beijing Olympics as well as the senior world championships with the American national team.
Last weekend, he signed a three-year entry-level contract with the Habs, the team that drafted him in the fourth round in 2020.
In addition, Cayden Primeau who will face the Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday evening. Head coach Martin St-Louis confirmed on Monday that he would hand over the net to the young man.
Even if the Habs are not yet mathematically excluded from the playoffs, the eight games they have left to play are essentially without stakes. In this context, the organization wants to take the pulse of the development of the 23-year-old goaltender, who has just been recalled from the American League.
“Every day, all players are evaluated,” St. Louis recalled Monday night.
This is his third recall of the season. The first time, he had not played. The second, he had been sent in relief to Samuel Montembeault for a single period: as he was returning at that time from a long convalescence, we did not want to entrust him with the net for an entire match. This time he will get a proper start.
Primeau is also having a very good time with the Laval Rocket. In his last 9 games, he has a 2.33 goals-against average and a .924 save percentage.
This decision to bring him home at this precise moment may seem curious, since the Rocket is in the heart of the fight to reach the AHL playoffs. However, the American has started the last six meetings of his team. So we were planning to send Kevin Poulin into the fray anyway, as the Quebecer recovered from the “upper body” injury that cost him a month of activity. To make up for Primeau’s absence in Laval, the Rocket recalled Philippe Desrosiers from the Trois-Rivières Lions.
To date, Primeau has been given 15 NHL starts since making his professional debut in 2019-20. However, he only had three wins.
Carter Hart will be the starting goaltender for the Flyers. Despite his team’s setbacks this season, the goaltender is doing pretty well statistically – 21-21-10 record, 2.90 goals-against average and .909 save percentage.
Quebec forward Nicolas Deslauriers will return to action after missing two games to recover from an “upper body” injury.