VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- It's been three decades since the Canadiens won raised most recent Stanley Cup, and it's been nearly as long since the Nordiques bid au revoir to Quebec. Any yet, there remains something uniquely hockey-cool about hockey talk with even a trace of French.
I could easily be referring to the Penguins topping off their 2019 NHL Draft class with two French-Canadian power forwards, Samuel Poulin and Nathan Legare. Or even just when Legare responded to a French question about his new employers by rattling off the names, "Sidney Crosby, Jaromir Jagr .