When it comes to the Laval Rocket, there is no one on the team more full to the brim with tantalizing skill and promise than Jesse Ylönen. The young Scottsdale-born winger is hoping to make a full-time NHL impact in the near future, and continue the Montreal Canadiens’ march toward fixing nearly a decade of development incompetence.
For Ylönen he’s done extremely well to put himself firmly in the viewfinder of the Canadiens’ front office and coaching staff, in both the old regime and the new one as well. It hasn’t been the easiest road either, with COVID preventing him from joining the Laval Rocket originally as the season was cancelled, to the virus forcing an abbreviated AHL season the following year, to last year when many players were yo-yoed between the leagues.