Training camp | Quotes of the day – Oct. 7 

MONT-TREMBLANT – Jordan Harris, Rafaël Harvey-Pinard and head coach Martin St-Louis addressed the media ahead of Saturday’s preseason game against the Senators.

Here are some noteworthy quotes from their availabilities:

Harris on the importance of the last game of the exhibition calendar:

I think it’s just all the little things, like the team identity stuff. We want to make sure that we’re all connected on our forecheck, our breakout as a group because at training camp, there’s so many guys, you know? You’re always shuffling around players, and that’s great because everyone gets an opportunity to show what they can do, but it’s tough to gel when there’s so many moving parts going on. So, right now, I think tonight’s a great opportunity – and our game against Toronto was as well – to solidify those team aspects and form our identity as a team.

Harvey-Pinard on his performance at camp:

Obviously, it wasn’t perfect. There’s still a lot of room for improvement. I think I can give more. But at the same time, I don’t think I played poorly either. Training camp is a process and it’s about getting better with each game and finding your rhythm.

Martin St-Louis on bringing back concepts of positionless hockey from last season:

The concept is the same. It’s a matter of being repetitive because sometimes you have new players, and guys haven’t been around these concepts for five or six months. So, it’s about being repetitive, and I don’t think we’re sharing anything new; we’re not inventing anything. The League is going in that direction. So, it’s about knowing how to be detailed within these concepts and that’s what we really want to focus on this year.

The Canadiens will take on the Senators at Canadian Tire Centre tonight at 7:00 p.m. ET.