Montreal Canadiens general manager Kent Hughes said that the team had decided on Slovakian forward Juraj Slafkovsky on Wednesday, but even despite the meeting with the team on Thursday, Slafkovsky was surprised.
“We had meetings but you don’t get to know anything from the meetings. I still can guess but I was waiting for this... But now it’s reality,” he said.
Slafkovsky’s red carpet moment was met with some boos from the fans outside the Bell Centre, but the newest Canadien took it in stride.
“Hockey is their passion as well as mine,” he said.