If you look at the history of professional hockey as a whole, you’ll likely find a bunch of different players with careers not too dissimilar to that of Vincent Arseneau, something the Laval Rocket and, to an extent its parent affiliate the Montreal Canadiens, are no stranger to.
The AHL’s reputation as a top development league for NHL prospects is something that has only really occurred recently in the modern day, more specifically after the 2004-05 NHL lockout. That year, the AHL became the star attraction, and it's where longtime NHLers like Jason Spezza, Mike Cammalleri, and Eric Staal got their start as professionals. It was a season marked by some notable changes, ones that have continued in recent years. Throughout all of this, the Canadiens, unlike many other teams, didn’t really do much of anything to stand out in the AHL, choosing to focus on the NHL which unfortunately wasn’t going much better, and as a whole the Canadiens history with minor league affiliates has been shaky at best.
From the days of the Fredericton Canadiens to the Rocket now, only one Habs affiliate has ever won the Calder Cup since the fabled Nova Scotia Voyageurs of the 60s and 70s, that somewhat-famously being the Hamilton Bulldogs in 2006-07. Funnily enough, that team actually shares a lot of similarities with the Rocket as of late, that being that both teams were mostly led by longtime AHL veterans, something that led the Rocket to within one game of the Calder Cup final themselves in 2021-22. For the Bulldogs, it was the likes of Eric Manlow and Ajay Baines who set the example in the dressing room, yet in the modern day, its guys like Alex Barre Boulet and well, Arseneau.