After goaltender Jacob Fowler was ranked as the 4th-rated prospect in the Montreal Canadiens pipeline in the summer, he has now moved up to the 2nd-best prospect in the team’s prospect pool.
The preliminary round has just ended. And Slovakia is exactly where it wanted to be: still standing. Still in the picture. And still with Juraj Slafkovsky at the center of it all.
With the Olympic break upon us, the trade deadline is under a month away. Where does each team stand, and what moves should they be looking to make? After looking at bubble teams in recent days, we now shift the focus to teams currently in a playoff spot. Next up are the Canadiens.
Some statistics speak volumes. And right now, Jacob Fowler’s stats in Laval are hard to ignore. In recent weeks, the goalie seems unfazed by his demotion from the big club and appears to have taken his game to another level.
In 2023, Brendan Gallagher and his Quebecois wife Emma Fortin got engaged. A year and a half later, the couple was expecting their first child. And now the couple’s love has moved on to another stage: the Gallaghers are expecting their second child.
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
For fans and players invited to represent their country at the Olympic Games, it’s an incredible event. But for others (uninvited players, among others), it’s not all positive.
The Montreal Canadiens began their Olympic break in what would have generally been considered an outlandish position heading into 2025-26: in second place in the Atlantic Division, with home-ice advantage effectively within their grasp.
The trade deadline is fast approaching, with Friday, March 6 less than a month away. The Montreal Canadiens are obviously the team to watch closely, as Kent Hughes attempts to improve his squad.
Once again this season, Pascal Vincent is doing an extraordinary job with the Laval Rocket in the American Hockey League. The Montreal Canadiens’ farm team is just as dominant as last season, easily sitting atop the North Division with 66 points in 49 games.
On Saturday, Montreal Canadiens forward Juraj Slafkovsky helped his native Slovakia clinch the top spot in Group B of the Men’s Olympic Tournament. Slafkovsky scored a goal and an assist in a 5-3 loss against Sweden.
Sometimes the best trade isn’t flashy. It isn’t the big-name scorer or the splashy deadline swing. Sometimes it’s the quiet, steady, grown-up move that settles everything down.
The countdown of the big 3 prospects in the Montreal Canadiens pipeline starts today with Russian forward Alexander Zharovsky, who comes in as the team’s #3 prospect.
Despite Slovakia’s loss to Sweden, Juraj Slafkovsky had another strong game today with a goal and an assist. Nevertheless, even though the Slovaks lost the game, they celebrated their first place finish in Group B in what Slafkovsky called the best loss of his life.
USA, Canada and Sweden entered the tournament as the top-three gold-medal favorites and the favorites to win their respective groups. Slovakia and Sweden threw a pretty big wrench into all those plans.
The Montreal Canadiens are only one to two more years away from transitioning from a rebuild to legitimate contenders. By that point, players like Nick
Tonight, the Laval Rocket was in action. We’ll come back to that later. What hockey fans were watching, however, was the matchup between Michael Hage and Gavin McKenna.
On Friday, all 4 Montreal Canadiens players at the Olympics were in action for their respective nations. This included Oliver Kapanen, who made his Olympic debut for Finland after being a healthy scratch for the first game of the tournament, where the Finns were upset by his Habs teammate Juraj Slafkovsky and Slovakia in a 4-1 loss on Wednesday.
After taking on the Czech Republic yesterday morning, Canada’s men’s hockey team was back in action this afternoon, this time facing Switzerland. Seth Jarvis, Travis Sanheim, and Logan Thompson played their first game of the tournament, while Brad Marchand, Josh Morrissey (injured), and Jordan Binnington were given the day off.
The Montreal Canadiens are in a stronger playoff position this year than they were at the same point last season. At the outset of the campaign, management tempered expectations.
Stopping short of assuming the Montreal Canadiens will make the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs, it’s at least fair to say they’re in an enviable position during the Olympic break.
Right now, the chatter around the Montreal Canadiens is that Patrik Laine might not actually play another game in a Habs sweater. In fact, the more you look at what’s happening, the more it feels like the writing’s already on the wall.
The Montreal Canadiens don’t usually dominate headlines during an Olympic break, but the situation surrounding Laine has pushed the franchise into the center of the NHL rumor cycle.
For the past few weeks, winger Patrik Laine has been a full participant at most Montreal Canadiens practices as he works his way back from core muscle surgery.
Trading Patrik Laine isn’t going to be simple for the Montreal Canadiens. Montreal has had a ton of bright spots this season, and they’re thinking about upgrading at the deadline as most Stanley Cup contenders would do.
The NHL's Olympic break may prove beneficial, but one could have done without it. The Montreal Canadiens are so much fun to watch that a normal continuation of play would be preferred.
The Montreal Canadiens organization is dealing with an embarrassment of riches. It’s the kind of problem other teams wish they had. As a result, heading into the NHL trade deadline on March 6, the question is whether they stand pat with what they have or make a trade, taking a swing that might put them in real contender status.
The Montreal Canadiens have been one of the NHL's top five teams for the past year, since the return from the Four Nations Face-Off break. This is not an opinion; it is a fact.