Michigan fans are going to love this.

If this were the case why were the Canadians in such a hurry to sign Max Pacioretty if he isn't going to stick with the big club? This story will really make Michigan fans happy when they read this. This is all the more reason to stay in school a couple of more years.

Canadien's Pacioretty eyes NHL job
MONTREAL - There's no room for young guns like Max Pacioretty and Ben Maxwell on the Montreal Canadiens roster going into training camp, so if they want a spot on the NHL club, they'll have to make one.

So says coach Guy Carbonneau, a former Chicoutimi junior star who bulled his way onto the Canadiens roster and made Dan Daoust redundant in the early 1980s to launch his 19-year NHL playing career.

"You've got to steal a job from someone," Carbonneau said Monday as the Canadiens' four-day rookie camp opened at the Bell Centre. "That's what I did.

"It's a jungle."

The off-season acquisitions of veterans Robert Lang, Alex Tanguay and Georges Laraque gave Montreal what looks like a complete 23-man roster going into the 2008-09 season.