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The Montreal Canadiens have signed defenceman Logan Mailloux to a three-calendar year, entry-amount deal, the staff introduced Tuesday.
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Mailloux, 19, was the team’s initial-round draft choose in 2021 inspite of his inquiring NHL teams not to draft him.
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He was charged with defamation and offensive pictures in Sweden in 2020 and fined roughly $2,000 immediately after secretly photographing an 18-yr-aged girl engaged in a sexual act with him and then sharing the photograph and her id with his teammates.
The decide on was fulfilled with backlash from followers and criticism from some sponsors.
The Montreal Canadiens did not invite him to rookie camp in 2021 and he missed 26 game titles though serving an indefinite suspension in the OHL.
“The Montreal Canadiens experience he has done the do the job,” director of participant advancement Rob Ramage said when Mailloux was invited to the team’s improvement camp in July. “He wouldn’t be below if he hadn’t.”
“This is a final decision that we have thought by means of thoroughly,” GM Kent Hughes claimed in a statement.
“He has an chance to have an affect on constructive change and we will work to assistance him in any energy towards that target.”
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With documents from Stu Cowan
