Arpon Basu of The Athletic: The agent for Montreal Canadiens defenseman Victor Mete made public two weeks ago that his client wouldn’t mind a trade in hope of getting a bigger role somewhere else. Canadiens GM Marc Bergevin believes Mete can play an important role for the team that he’s not going bow to the trade request.
“First of all, never will an agent decide the way we’re going to manage our team. Never. Whether it’s internally or publicly,” Bergevin said. “In Victor’s case, we had some discussions beforehand that we wanted to get him in the lineup, I think Claude explained that.