The Montreal Canadiens are entering the stretch of the season where playoff positioning is just as crucial as securing a spot. The Eastern Conference playoff picture is starting to come together.
Welcome back to another edition of NHL Rumours from the crew at Last Word on Hockey. The rumours continue to swirl here on deadline day, and the Montreal Canadiens are finding themselves in the middle of many trade negotiations.
Welcome back to another edition of NHL Rumours from the crew at Last Word on Hockey. It’s trade deadline day, and the rumours are swirling with teams looking to put the finishing touches on their rosters to make a run at Lord Stanley’s Cup.
After the trade deadline had passed in the National League, we were still waiting for news from the Canadiens. It was… dead. Radio silence, to put it another way.
In the lore of the NHL, it's the Stanley Cup-winning teams that are remembered the most from seasons past. Yet, when looking back on the best of the best
That’s it! The trade deadline has passed and the rumor mill will take a break for now. What we can conclude from this fairly quiet deadline for the Canadiens is that no one is coming to town and no one is leaving Montreal… not even Patrik Laine.
The Montreal Canadiens made the playoffs last season as the second wild card in the Eastern Conference. This season, Montreal is proving that they are going to be a playoff team once again in the east.
There are only a few hours left before the NHL trade deadline. And so far, Kent Hughes has yet to make a move. Will that change in the next few hours? That’s the question on everyone’s mind.
Have you heard the rumors surrounding Patrik Laine? Hehe. Seriously though, François Gagnon revealed some pretty interesting information on RDS. What is it?
The Canadiens have sent several messages to their goalies this year. The recall of Jacob Fowler was one. The dismissal of the goalie coach was another.
Will Kent Hughes make a move today? Will Patrik Laine be traded before 3 p.m.? Will the Canadiens look to acquire a goalie to remedy their long-standing problem in net?
We’ve been saying it for a while now, but the Canadiens’ #1 need is clear: they need to find a defenseman who can help the club reduce the number of goals it concedes.
That’s it: it’s trade deadline day. The last few hours have been intense. Conor Garland (Columbus), Sam Carrick, Logan Stanley, Luke Schenn (Buffalo), and John Carlson (Anaheim) all changed addresses overnight.
The Montreal Canadiens’ practice on Thursday saw some interesting line changes to their top 6 forward group that could allow both lines to regain the dominant chemistry that they had at the start of the 2025-26 season.
Rumors spread quickly as the trade deadline approaches. And when a right-handed defenseman capable of playing big minutes finds himself in the rumor mill, Canadiens fans tend to pay attention.
With just hours to go before the NHL trade deadline, Frank Seravalli published his list of the top 50 trade targets to watch. And the Canadiens are well represented on the list.
On Wednesday night, Montreal Canadiens prospect Bryce Pickford continued his incredible goal-scoring pace with his 3rd hat-trick of the season in a 6-3 victory for the Medicine Hat Tigers over the Brandon Wheat Kings.
With NHL trade talk ramping up, Sergei Bobrovsky has become the latest high-profile name to orbit the Canadiens — and one report has Montreal positioned as the frontrunner.
The Montreal Canadiens have played two games since returning from the Olympic break, and among their forward lines, only the top line of Cole Caufield, Nick Suzuki, and Kirby Dach has been a consistent threat offensively.
The Montreal Canadiens are in a position few expected them to be in at this stage of the rebuild a couple of years ago, firmly in the playoff conversation.
The Montreal Canadiens are looking to make it back-to-back years in the playoffs. They are currently in third in the Atlantic Division, with a solid group of players who looked poised to make another run at playoff glory.
The Montreal Canadiens are in one of those rare times when patience and real opportunity align. They’re in a playoff spot, but the big thing isn’t just the standings.