Lecavalier joins Canadiens' front office

The Montreal Canadiens are bringing in another Tampa Bay Lightning icon less than two weeks after naming Martin St. Louis head coach.

Vincent Lecavalier is the club's new special advisor to hockey operations, while Nick Bobrov will serve as co-director of amateur scouting along with Martin Lapointe, who already occupied that role in addition to director of player personnel.

Lecavalier excelled over a 17-year playing career spent primarily with the Lightning. The Quebec-born forward notched 421 goals and 528 assists over 1,212 games, helping Tampa Bay win the Stanley Cup in 2004. Lecavalier won the "Rocket" Richard Trophy three years later after posting a career-high 52 goals in 2006-07.

The 41-year-old hung up his skates in 2016, and the Lightning retired his number in 2018. Lecavalier remains Tampa Bay's all-time leader in games played, ranks second in both goals and assists, and sits third in points in franchise history. He captained the team from 2008-13 after doing so in 2000-01 and sharing the "C" in the previous campaign.

Lecavalier and St. Louis were Lightning teammates for 12 seasons. The newer member of the Canadiens was a longtime client of Kent Hughes, the ex-agent who Montreal recently hired as general manager.

Bobrov was the New York Rangers' director of European scouting from 2015-21 and served the same role with the Boston Bruins from 2001-06. Canadiens executive vice president of hockey operations Jeff Gorton worked with Bobrov in both of the latter's previous stops. Montreal hired Gorton in November on the same day as former GM Marc Bergevin's firing.

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