The Montreal Canadiens have assigned forward Jesse Ylonen to the AHL's Laval Rocket.
Habs head coach Dominique Ducharme says that forward Cedric Paquette (lower-body injury) will return to practice with the team next Monday.
Ducharme adds that Mike Hoffman (LBI) will start skating with the team next week and ideally begin practising the following week and defenceman Joel Edmundson (LBI) will likely resume practising the week after next.
He also says the team might start the season with eight defencemen until Edmundson returns, which would include rookie Kaiden Guhle and Sami Niku.