former northeastern university hockey coach jim madigan has some strong montreal connections.
during madigan’s 10 seasons as head coach at northeastern, the huskies won back-to-back-to-back beanpot championships in 2018 and 2019 , two hockey east titles and made three appearances in the ncaa tournament. in 2021, madigan was promoted to director of athletics and recreation.
twenty of the players madigan coached at northeastern were drafted by nhl teams and three of them were in the canadiens’ lineup for wednesday night’s game against the flyers in philadelphia: goalie cayden primeau , along with defencemen jordan harris and jayden struble .
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madigan’s favourite canadiens player growing up was guy lafleur, and he still remembers being at the forum the night frank mahovlich scored his 500th career goal. he still watches a lot of canadiens games on tv and also watches a lot of new jersey games because his daughter, kate, was named an assistant general manager with the devils in 2022.
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