Phillip Danault has never stood out for his skating ability. And I'm not saying that to take a dig at him. It's a fact: the guy wasn't super fast even before he left the Canadiens.
On October 25, the Canadiens will face the Jets in an away game. The two teams will battle it out for the win as part of the National Hockey League's 2026 Heritage Game, and it's sure to be exciting.
Not long ago, a Montreal Canadiens visit to Toronto was mostly about history, rivalry, and maybe a little nostalgia. This game tonight feels different.
The Montreal Canadiens announced their 23-man roster and cuts on Sunday afternoon, and surprisingly to many, David Reinbacher was not on it and Adam Engstrom was.
Here we go. The Canadiens' regular season kicks off in just a few hours in Toronto. Florian Xhekaj and Adam Engstrom have made the big team, but it would be surprising to see them in uniform tonight against the Maple Leafs.
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.
The Canadiens let Kirill Marchenko slip away. And for the next seven years, he'll be in their division. We can all agree that the #1 reason the Russian is in Toronto is because the Maple Leafs had a player of Matthew Knies' caliber to trade.
Samuel Montembeault will serve as Jakub Dobes' backup at the start of the season. We didn't expect to be writing this a few months ago, but the situation has changed.
The regular season is finally here, and the Montreal Canadiens are set to begin their 2026-27 season on the road against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Last season, the Canadiens won three of the four meetings with the Maple Leafs, but they are going to need to be prepared for a very different Toronto team than they saw last year.
There’s a funny thing about hockey careers. Sometimes you leave one organization thinking you’re headed somewhere new, only to find yourself somewhere completely different a few weeks or months later.
The Montreal Canadiens will open their season with heightened expectations Tuesday night when they visit their longtime rivals, the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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.
The Montreal Canadiens have seemingly been spending months chasing Kirill Marchenko and unfortunately they weren't able to get a deal done before the season.
This morning at practice, it became clear that Florian Xhekaj probably won't play tomorrow night in Toronto. Even with Oliver Kapanen out, Xhekaj is likely to be in the press box rather than on the ice.
The Montreal Canadiens have reported that they will be without centre Oliver Kapanen for their season opener on Tuesday night against the Toronto Maple Leafs.
The Montreal Canadiens have announced their starting goaltending duo for the 2026-27 season. They will be going with the tandem of Jakub Dobes and Samuel Montembeault.
The Canadiens' 2026–27 season kicks off tomorrow. The team will be in Toronto to face the Maple Leafs to kick off their season. Yes, there's a real sense of hockey in the air right now.
This morning, the Canadiens players took to the ice for one last practice before heading to Toronto. The first piece of good news is that Ivan Demidov and Lane Hutson were there.
This morning, Jesse Granger (The Athletic) published an article on NHL goaltenders. Basically, he asked 45 NHL goalies and coaches to weigh in so he could put together a ranking of the best goalies in the National Hockey League.
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.
A veteran’s actions are forcing him to pay up a few bucks heading into the regular season. On Sunday, the NHL Department of Player Safety announced that Montreal Canadiens defenseman Mike Matheson has been fined $5,000 for roughing Ottawa Senators forward Ridly Greig.
If you’re the Montreal Canadiens, there are certain things you can’t count on happening in 2026-27 that undeniably contributed to their successful 106-point season and eventual third-round finish.