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A Quebec Court judge is expected to deliver his decision Monday in the case where a young woman is charged with being impaired while behind the wheel of a pickup truck when it crashed in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce and injured hockey player Zack Kassian during his brief stint with the Montreal Canadiens.

During a three-day trial held in February, Judge Denis Mondor heard conflicting accounts of what happened before the Ford F350 Kassian had borrowed from a dealership after he joined the Canadiens crashed into a tree just before 6 a.m. on Oct. 4, 2015, at the corner of Clanranald Ave. and Côte-St-Luc Rd.

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Alison De Courcy-Ireland, 24, faces two impaired driving charges.

During the trial, Kassian testified he was never behind the wheel of the vehicle during the ride between his condo and the crash site. But McGill University student Gemma Brown, another woman in the truck when the crash occurred, testified Kassian initially was behind the steering wheel as they left his home early that morning. She said he appeared to fall asleep while driving along a highway and she and De Courcy-Ireland managed to place the 210-pound athlete in the back seat before her friend decided she felt okay to drive.