Montreal Canadiens — Take a Breath and Let the Kids Play Sue Dinham | October 21, 2019 To a hockey fan, watching your team win the tough games and lose to struggling teams brings a mountain of exasperation. One can only imagine the frustration that brews in…
Canadiens Have Depth but Lack Elite Talent Josh Rubin | October 11, 2019 The Montreal Canadiens have started the season with a 1-1-2 record, after dropping a 4-2 decision in their own home opener to the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday night. The…
Canadiens Roster Depth: Ranking the Centres Tyler Kuehl | August 28, 2019 With the season just around the corner, it is time to take a deep look into the Montreal Canadiens as a whole. This is part of a series of articles…
Montreal Canadiens Jesperi Kotkaniemi Is Already a Star Tim Chiasson | May 29, 2019 When the Montreal Canadiens passed on Filip Zadina and Brady Tkachuk the consensus was that they went off the board. Now they have the makings of an elite two-way center.…
Canadiens’ Kotkaniemi Has Some Serious Potential Peter Kapelanski | April 28, 2019 In 2018, the Montreal Canadiens were given the third overall pick in the NHL Draft, their highest pick since 2012 when the team selected offensive forward Alex Galchenyuk with the…
Kotkaniemi Undergoes Knee Surgery Brandon Share-Cohen | April 23, 2019 The Montreal Canadiens announced Tuesday that rookie forward Jesperi Kotkaniemi has undergone successful arthroscopic knee surgery Tuesday to repair a chronic, minor injury in his left knee, The surgery was…
NHL News & Notes: Sparks, Sutter & More Brandon Share-Cohen | March 5, 2019 In today’s News & Notes, Garret Sparks has signed a one-year contract extension, Brandon Sutter is out for the remainder of the 2018-19 season and Jesperi Kotkaniemi is set to…
Canadiens’ Kotkaniemi Comes As Advertised Ryan Szporer | February 23, 2019 At face value, Montreal Canadiens Jesperi Kotkaniemi is having a very good rookie season. It’s only when you start to look at it from the proper perspective that it becomes…
Canadiens Likely to Keep Kotkaniemi from World Juniors Ryan Szporer | December 9, 2018 It shouldn’t be surprising Montreal Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin will likely keep Jesperi Kotkaniemi instead of loaning him to Finland for the World Juniors. In contrast, the ramifications of…
Montreal’s Finnish Fraternity, from Niemi to Kotkaniemi Mike Ryan | November 21, 2018 Finland has always punched above its weight in hockey. The nation of 5.5 million people – roughly the same number as the state of Minnesota and about a million fewer…
5 Reasons Kotkaniemi Stays With Canadiens Ryan Szporer | October 26, 2018 All eyes are on Montreal Canadiens forward Jesperi Kotkaniemi following his ninth NHL game. Between the point at which the final buzzer sounded in their game against the Buffalo Sabres…
Price and His Fellow Habs Set for Big Milestones Ryan Szporer | October 23, 2018 Montreal Canadiens goalie Carey Price isn’t the only Hab on the cusp of reaching a big milestone. In fact, while the netminder being one win shy of tying Patrick Roy…