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It’s thanks to Tomas Plekanec that Victor Mete now feels guilty any time he eats a french fry.

After being selected by the Canadiens in the fourth round (100th overall) of the 2016 NHL Draft, Mete showed up at the Bell Sports Complex in Brossard for his first evaluation camp. Plekanec, who was spending the summer in Montreal, arrived one day and took seven or eight of the new Canadiens prospects out for lunch at the nearby Quartier DIX30.

“He ordered a bunch of food for all of us and he got fries for everybody,” Mete recalled after the Canadiens’ morning skate Monday. “And if we ate them, he’d say: ‘Don’t touch those things.’ So now, even up to this day, sometimes I have a few fries and he always says: ‘Make sure you’re not eating the fries.’ So he’s still on that same kind of thing that when I first got here with him not knowing me at all. Now, if we go out for dinner he’s making sure I’m never getting fries.”