The Montreal Canadiens had a busy offseason ahead of them with the number of pending free agents they had in their farming system. Even though the NHL is currently on pause, Marc Bergevin took the opportunity to begin to check some names off that list, starting with Laval Rocket forward Alex Belzile.
Belzile was in his second season in the organization after leading the Rocket in scoring last year with 19 goals and 35 assists for 54 points in 74 games. Injuries held the 28-year-old to 20 games (missing 42 games in total), but he managed to put up 7 goals and 7 assists in that period hovering around a similar scoring rate as the year before (0.