Guillaume Latendresse

Willy Latendresse is indeed in uniform here at Scotiabank Place.

Hopefully he and older brother Olivier (also here) will get to play together - Mom and Dad will be bursting with pride - the culmination of 15 years of getting up at the crack of dawn to drive one, or both, to practices.

OK, bag the groin pull jokes.

This isn't funny anymore.

The latest victim: Alex Tanguay. He joins Alex Kovalev, Georges Laraque, Roman Hamrlik and Patrice Brisebois.

Guillaume Latendresse is hampered by a hip problem.Robert Lang and Christopher Higgins are also banged up.

Your Montreal Canadiens, who skated through the 2007-'08 season with no significant injuries – are being decimated in training camp.

The lineup (subject to change after morning skate) for tomorrow night's Bell Centre game against the Senators: 

jaroslav Halak and Marc Denis

Shootout hero Andrei Markov, Ryan O’Byrne, Josh Gorges, P.K. Subban, Alex Henry, Yannick Weber

AK46, SK74, Tomas Plekanec, a recovered Kovy, Max Pacioretty, Ben Maxwell, Gregory Stewart, David Desharnais, Matt D’Agostini, Steve Bégin, Max Lapierre, Tom Kostopoulos

The Pleks-Kovy-AK46 line will be back together tomorrow night. SK74 will play with Max-Pac and B-Max.

The Canadiens most potent line has been broken up – at least to start the exhibition season.

When the Canadiens take on the Boston Bruins Monday night in Halifax, Tomas Plekanec will still have Andrei Kostitsyn on his left wing. But coach Guy Carbonneau says Sergei Kostitsyn will play RW on the line.

Has Alex Kovalev been placed on waivers?

Of course not. Kovy will make his exhibition season debut Wednesday night in Detroit, Carbo  said, with the linemates who joined him at this morning's practice: Robert Lang and Guillaume Latendresse.

Another new line that Carbonneau will try Monday: Prized acquisition Alex Tanguay with two rookies: Ben Maxwell and Max Pacioretty.

This is what training camp is for. Carbonneau, an inveterate line-tinkerer, can really go to town.

Guilaume Latendresse will be coming to camp with wings on his skates.

OK, that might be a slight exaggeration.

But his stride looks fluid in that souvenir photo, and Gui! spent time this summer at skating school. Paul Lawson, a friend of Trevor Timmins who coached at the Canadiens development camp, worked with Latendresse and his brother Olivier, as well as Pavel Valentenko and Cody Hodgson,who was Vancouver's first round draft choice.

Latendresse, who's been a father for eight weeks, also did some off-season work on diet and nutrition.

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Hawks coach Denis Savard told Marc De Foy of the Journal de Montréal that Guy Carbonneau will like Robert Lang. 

Savrd describes Lang as "low-maintenance" – a desirable quality in cars and hockey players. 

"He's easy to coach," Savard added. "Carbo will like him. He's a good guy who never caused me any problems.

"He can give the team 50 to 60 points. Plus, he understand the game." 

Savard also said Vancouver and Toronto were interested in trading for Lang before Bob Gainey scooped him up.

Maïka Desnoyers (that's her  in the pic), Guillaume Latendresse's partner, gave birth to the couple's first child on Saturday morning.

Hayden Latendresse weighed six pounds, eight ounces.

The proud parents are young – Latendresse turned 21 in May, Desnoyers will be 22 in September –  but she told the Journal de Montréal  they're ready for the adventure.

"This doesn't scare us," Desnoyers said. "We're past our stage of going to bars. We're two serious people and our relationship is going super-well.

"This is a normal step in our relationship. We're happier than ever."

Desnoyers, who represented Quebec in the 2006 Miss Universe Canada contest, is a real estate agent.

The couple chose the name because they wanted something different.  Desnoyers said they had a short list, but when they saw the baby's face she and Latendresse knew Hayden would be right.