{"id":38461,"date":"2018-11-29T23:04:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T04:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=38461"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:37:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:37:40","slug":"montreal-canadiens-send-victor-mete-to-laval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/11\/29\/montreal-canadiens-send-victor-mete-to-laval\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens Send Victor Mete to Laval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/canadiens\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> have sent down defenceman <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/metevi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Victor Mete<\/a><\/strong> down to the American Hockey League\u2019s Laval Rocket. Canadiens head coach <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/j\/juliecl01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Claude Julien<\/a><\/strong> announced the move on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DETAILS \u27a1 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YXnRUyJx9L\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/YXnRUyJx9L<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoHabsGo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#GoHabsGo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Canadiens Montr\u00e9al (@CanadiensMTL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CanadiensMTL\/status\/1068196699896774657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 29, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Montreal Canadiens Send Down Victor Mete<\/h1>\n<p>Mete has racked up four assists and two penalty minutes this season. In 23 games this season The 20-year-old has a Corsi for of 50.7 and a relative Corsi of -2.4.<\/p>\n<p>He has only played for the Montreal Canadiens in his two-year NHL career. The Woodbridge, Ontario native has 11 assists in 77 career games. Montreal originally drafted him in the fourth round, 100<sup>th<\/sup> overall of the 2016 NHL draft.<\/p>\n<p>Julien said the move was made to further Mete\u2019s development. The Habs head coach was happy with Mete\u2019s offensive game, but said he needs to work on his defence and play away from the puck. Julien said that going to Laval will for more playing time will further his game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes it\u2019s about getting there first. It\u2019s anticipation, because he\u2019s not a big player, anticipating well and getting to the puck first,&#8221; Julien <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/sports\/hockey\/nhl\/hockey-inside-out\/canadiens-notebook-victor-mete-sent-down-to-ahls-laval-rocket\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said to the media<\/a>. Sometimes it\u2019s about how to close quickly and good stick. So, in other words, staying away from just kind of trying to contain. Because when we get in that situation we spend a lot of time in our own end.<\/p>\n<h1>What This Means for the Future<\/h1>\n<p>The return of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/w\/webersh01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shea Weber<\/a><\/strong> forced Montreal\u2019s hand and it was a numbers game. Mete was the odd man out and they didn\u2019t want him to be a healthy scratch with the big club.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal management will get a chance to look at Mete as seven of the next nine games will be in Laval. He was averaging 15:35 of ice time with the Habs and this will likely increase in the AHL. Some solid play with the Rocket may see him return to the Belle Centre sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/12\/Mete.jpg\" alt=\"\">Montreal Canadiens defenceman Victor Mete. (Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Montreal Canadiens have sent down defenceman Victor Mete down to the American Hockey League\u2019s Laval Rocket. Canadiens head coach Claude Julien announced the move on Thursday afternoon. DETAILS \u27a1 https:\/\/t.co\/YXnRUyJx9L #GoHabsGo &mdash; Canadiens Montr\u00e9al (@CanadiensMTL) November 29, 2018 Montreal Canadiens Send Down Victor Mete Mete has racked up four assists and two penalty minutes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":20041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,34],"tags":[1158,5738,3098,152,2569,955,254,481],"class_list":["post-38461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canadiens","category-news","tag-claude-julien","tag-hockey-news","tag-laval-rocket","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-news","tag-nhl-news","tag-shea-weber","tag-victor-mete"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}