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Habs roster announced for alumni game

The names have been announced for the Montreal Canadiens alumni team that will be in Estevan for a fundraising hockey game Feb. 24. The game starts at 2 p.m. at Affinity Place.
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Members of the Montreal Canadiens Alumni, pictured here during a visit to Weyburn last season, will be in Estevan on Feb. 24. Photo by the Weyburn Review

The names have been announced for the Montreal Canadiens alumni team that will be in Estevan for a fundraising hockey game Feb. 24. The game starts at 2 p.m. at Affinity Place.

Hockey Hall of Fame inductee Steve Shutt is arguably the biggest name involved; he’ll be serving as the coach of the squad. Shutt won five Stanley Cups as a member of the Habs dynasty in the 1970s, and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1993.

His 60 goals in 1976-77 remained a single-season record for a left-winger until the mark was broken by Luc Robitaille in 1992-93.

Richard Sevigny will be the goaltender for the alumni team. He won the Vezina Trophy for the 1980-81 season, back when the Vezina was awarded to the goalie(s) on the team with the lowest goals against average in the league.

Also on the Habs entry will be forwards Oleg Petrov, Keith Acton, Glen Metropolit, Mathieu Dandenault, Pierre Dagenais and Jesse Belanger, and defencemen Arc-Andre Bergeron and Patrice Brisebois.

Brisebois, who played more than 1,000 games in the NHL, had the longest tenure with the Canadiens among the players in the game, as he spent 16 seasons with the teams in his 18-season NHL career.

Brisebois, Belanger and Petrov were all part of the last Montreal team to win the Stanley Cup in 1993; Sevigny was on the Habs roster for the 1979 championship season.

Acton, meanwhile, had an 88-point season with Montreal in 1981-82, won a Stanley Cup with the Edmonton Oilers in 1990, and played more than 1,000 games in the NHL. 

One other player has yet to be announced.

Players for the game are subject to change.

Proceeds of the game will be directed towards the Royal Canadian Legion’s Estevan branch and OSI-Can, which provides assistance to those suffering from occupational stress injuries (OSI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).