Canadiens Notebook: Early signs suggest Demidov will take another ‘step’

MONTREAL— It was a smooth redirect from Ivan Demidov. This one delivered in the room after he spent his night dekeing and deceiving every Toronto Maple Leaf in his path in a 4-3 overtime win for his Montreal Canadiens at Bell Centre. It’s pre-season, but Demidov, who scored a goal on Saturday, is already in mid-season form both on and off the ice. We asked him if anything he worked on during the off-season translated immediately for him through this first game back. “You tell me,” the 20-year-old Russian, who paced all rookies in scoring with 62 points last season,…