The Montreal Canadiens have added four players and one coach to COVID-19 protocol on Tuesday.
The players were forwards Rafaël Harvey-Pinard and Jesse Ylönen, defenceman David Savard, and goaltender Samuel Montembeault. Assistant coach Trevor Letowski was also added.
The Canadiens and Laval Rocket suspended all activities until January 6 in order to avoid more infections as players were being added to protocol every day. The Canadiens played their last game with 11 forwards and five defencemen.
The players added join forwards Brandon Baddock, Paul Byron, Laurent Dauphin, Jake Evans, Mike Hoffman, Artturi Lehkonen and Tyler Toffoli in the COVID-19 protocol, along with defensemen Louie Belpedio, Ben Chiarot, Joel Edmundson, Gianni Fairbrother, Jeff Petry, Alexander Romanov and Chris Wideman, and goaltenders Jake Allen and Cayden Primeau.