Forty games into the regular season, the Montreal Canadiens find themselves in 8th place in the Eastern Conference of the NHL with 45 points, thanks a 21-16-3 record. If you look at that record at face value, I think it reflects the talent level on this club and the tooth-and-nail dogfight the Habs will be in over the final 42 games ...
After making him a second-round pick, No. 61 overall in the 2003 NHL entry draft, the Montreal Canadiens have said goodbye to Maxim Lapierre. The Habs sent Lapierre packing yesterday to Anaheim in a deal that brings defenseman Brett Festerling and a fifth-round 2012 draft pick to the Canadiens. Let it be known that Festerling will not appear anytime soon patrolling the Habs’ blue line. The book on Festerling is ...
Let me take you back some six weeks ago when the Hamilton Bulldogs put in an appearance at the Bell Centre to play an American Hockey League game against the Binghamton Senators. It was early November, and Max Pacioretty was beginning to tear it up in the AHL. At the time, Pacioretty raised more than a few eyebrows when ...
It hasn’t been much of a season for Scott Gomez. Last night, while the Montreal Canadiens were in the process of beating a goal-challenged Ottawa Senators’ team 4-1, Gomez was nursing an injury that forced him out of this game just two shifts into the second period. The official word on Gomez is: Day-to-day with a “lower ...
Defenceman Francis Bouillon and forward Sergei Kostitsyn will return to Montreal for the first time since both left town for the country-and-western climbs of Nashville, with the Canadiens playing host to the Predators tonight. What kind of welcome will the two get? In my mind, there’s no question that Bouillon receive, at least initially, a ...
It’s become a familiar refrain: The Montreal Canadiens are having problems putting the puck in the net. Indeed, last night in Columbus, the Canadiens failed to find the range, at all, against former Hab Mathieu Garon and the Blue Jackets in a 3-0 loss. As a result, Coach Jacques Martin went back to his game ...
Seems to me that Candiens’ head coach Jacques Martin has found his man to play with Scott Gomez and Brian Gionta. Eight games into the regular season, the Habs are enjoying the rarefied air of first place in the Eastern Conference of the NHL, thanks to last night’s 3-2 overtime win against the Phoenix Coyotes. ...
Three games into the regular season, and Canadiens’ head coach Jacques Martin is already playing musical chairs as a way to kick-start forward Benoit Pouliot. Truth be told, The Coach should also pull a couple of chairs for Pouliot’s linemates, Scott Gomez and Team Captain Brian Gionta. Martin had given Pouliot the benefit of the ...
And so it has come to this for forwards Ryan White and Ben Maxwell, defencemen Yannick Weber and Alex Henry and goalie Curtis Sanford. On the eve of the Montreal Canadiens’ regular-season opener in Toronto against the Leafs, the Habs broke camp and announced that the five would be making their way to the Hamilton ...
And then there were 31. Thirty-one players remaining in camp with the Montreal Canadiens as they look ahead to their penultimate pre-season game Thursday night at the Bell Centre when the Buffalo Sabres come to town. After an initial series of cuts in the opening days of training camp, which reduced the roster to 53 ...
