“I remember where I was, and what I was doing.”
January 15, 2016 was a day like any other for David Salter, Director of Communications for the St. John’s IceCaps, the AHL affiliate of the Montreal Canadiens at the time. The IceCaps were on the road, and David was on the way to pick up his kids when his phone rang. On the other end was Dominick Saillant, the Director of Media Communications for the Canadiens.
“There was constant player movement at the time between St. John’s, Brampton, and Laval,” Salter explained, “so calls from Saillant were a fairly regular occurrence.