The Montreal Canadiens have one of the best prospect pipelines in the NHL, and they had to make some tough decisions as they cut down the roster for this season.
Kirby Dach didn’t have a great training camp. But when he plays the right way, he's a guy who can help the Canadiens. We saw that on Tuesday, when he stood out in the game against the Leafs thanks to his solid play.
Who will be the Canadiens' second-line center in the long run? That's the question. Obviously, right now, Michael Hage is a strong internal candidate. After all, he has the potential to become a top-tier player in the NHL.
Oliver Kapanen was not in uniform for the Canadiens’ season opener. On Monday, the team announced that their center was injured. But today, Kapanen is back at practice with his teammates in Pittsburgh.
With a win against an archrival in the books to start the season, the Montreal Canadiens will continue their season-opening road trip, taking on the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday.
The NHL has had an interesting new millennium. It was a league sans a salary cap when the 2000s started… and then the owners locked the players out for an entire season.
Réjean Tremblay read my article from yesterday morning all the way through… and he was particularly struck by my report about Luc Gélinas. From what I've learned over the past few hours, the 2026–27 season will likely be Luc Gélinas's last at RDS.
The Montreal Canadiens have spent the last several years building one of the more intriguing prospect pools in the NHL. While several young players have already graduated to the NHL, there is still plenty of talent developing throughout the organization.
The Montreal Canadiens were forced to shuffle their expected lineup ahead of the game against the Toronto Maple Leafs, with Oliver Kapanen day-to-day with an injury.
The Canadiens still have a surplus of left-handed defensemen within their organization. It's a lesser evil given the current situation with Kaiden Guhle sidelined, but it's still not ideal.
Okay. So when are we going to find out that Connor McDavid has been traded to the Montreal Canadiens? I'm asking for a friend… hehe. Seriously, we can all agree that would be absolutely huge.
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
In his first game of a contract year, defenseman Alexandre Carrier once again proved his value to the Montreal Canadiens. Carrier scored the eventual game-winning goal on Tuesday night and also added an assist in the Canadiens’ 3-2 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs.
For the first time in his career, Jakub Dobes took the ice as the starter in the first game of the regular season. After a shaky preseason, Dobes bounced back and looked like the dominant goalie he was in the playoffs, helping Montreal secure a 3-2 win on the road over the Toronto Maple Leafs.
The Canadiens currently have 13 healthy forwards: the 12 players who suited up yesterday and Florian Xhekaj. And if Oliver Kapanen (whose condition is unknown) continues to improve, the Habs could have 14 healthy forwards heading into the next game.
Everything seems to indicate, at this point, that the Canadiens want to make a move. We know that Kent Hughes has been trying to add a piece to his core for a long time, but he hasn't necessarily been able to achieve his goals.
What interested me most about the Montreal Canadiens’ 3-2 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs last night had very little to do with the final score. Montreal looked like a team that had been playing together for a while.
The Montreal Canadiens spoiled the NHL debut of Gavin McKenna and Kirill Marchenko’s debut with the Toronto Maple Leafs, with 3-2 season-opening win at Scotiabank Arena.
Unbelievable, as Renaud Lavoie would say (whom I like, by the way). The Canadiens managed to surprise the Maple Leafs on their home ice, in front of their raucous fans, even though Toronto had opened the scoring just one minute into the game.
Grab your folding chairs and head over to Sainte-Catherine right away: the Canadiens are on their way to glory. Last night, at Toronto's most popular venue, Martin St.
The Montreal Canadiens went down 1-0 just 48 seconds into the game. But they rebounded. Josh Anderson tied the game midway through the first period, and Zachary Bolduc gave them the lead in the second.
Josh Anderson and Alexandre Carrier each had a goal and an assist for the visiting Montreal Canadiens Tuesday in their 3-2 opening-night victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs.
With opening night days away, Darren Dreger has fans in Montreal buzzing. On the Ray & Dregs podcast, he didn’t guarantee a deal, but he said it feels like Kent Hughes is working on something and that a trade before game one is possible.
Frank Seravalli’s suggestion that the Edmonton Oilers would “drool” over Kirby Dach makes for an intriguing trade discussion. Dach is a big, right-shot centre from the Edmonton area, and his younger brother Colton is already an Oiler.
To his credit, goalie Sam Montembeault came into training camp and forced the Montreal Canadiens to make a difficult decision in net. By choosing him over rookie Jacob Fowler though, the Habs arguably made the wrong one.
The Montreal Canadiens concluded their preseason schedule with a split-squad game against Ottawa. They split the split-squad, winning 4-2 at home and losing 4-3 on the road.
It’s pretty wholesome when two brothers both end up in the NHL, and the Montreal Canadiens Nick Suzuki got to experience that this weekend as he was about to play his younger brother Ryan for the first time in actual NHL jerseys.