Finally. The team is back together: Juraj Slafkovsky has arrived in Montreal and even skated today. New year, same Slaf. The Slovak hasn't lost any of his qualities off the ice.
That's it—we're almost there. The Canadiens Children's Foundation Golf Tournament will take place in exactly one week, and training camp will begin two days later in Brossard.
This morning, The Athletic published a ranking that's sure to get people talking. The list ranked players in order of importance: MVP, franchise players, stars, and role players.
How many of the players to grace the cover of each EA NHL video game going back to 'NHL 2000?"
The start of the Canadiens' training camp is just around the corner, but while waiting for the action to begin, members of the media often take the opportunity to make predictions for the upcoming season.
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.
Brendan Gallagher's departure for Vancouver leaves an assistant captain position open in Montreal. Two candidates are being considered to wear an “A” on their jerseys and support Nick Suzuki and Mike Matheson next season.
Juraj Slafkovsky had a great season in 2025-26, scoring 30 goals and 73 points. The Slovak played an important role on both the first line and the second line alongside Ivan Demidov.
When has a ranking ever failed to get people talking? Yesterday, Corey Pronman ranked the 32 NHL teams based on the quality of their under-23 players. The Canadiens came in third on the expert's list.
There has been a special culture in Montreal ever since Jeff Gorton and Kent Hughes arrived. Players are open to the idea of leaving money on the table to help the team improve, which is why people say the Canadiens now have one of the best salary structures in the National Hockey League.
Juraj Slafkovsky is the king of Slovakia! No joke—we all know how popular this young player is in his home country. He's one of Slovakia's biggest stars, and his achievements certainly don't go unnoticed.
Juraj Slafkovsky hasn't always had an easy relationship with his country. Let's just put it that way. He's never been afraid to criticize Slovakia's hockey people when things didn't go his way.
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 Seattle Kraken have spent the past several months searching for a star, and the Vancouver Canucks appear increasingly motivated to move one. Between the two Pacific Northwest clubs sits Shane Wright, a 22-year-old centre whose representatives have asked Seattle to find him a new team.
As we get into the dog days of summer and until training camp, thesickpodcast.com will profile Montreal Canadiens players based on their expected role for the 2026-27 NHL season.
At Monday’s season-ending press conference for the Montreal Canadiens, their general manager was asked about the team’s playoff run, plans for the summer, and the lack of production from the team’s top stars in the series versus the Carolina Hurricanes.
The NHL's Eastern Conference Finals began on Thursday night, and it was a wildly impressive win by the Montreal Canadiens as they dominated the Carolina Hurricanes, 6-2, to take a 1-0 series lead.
It has been 33 years since one of the NHL's Canadian-based teams has won the Stanley Cup. The Montreal Canadiens last won it during the 1992-93 season, and they are the only Canadian-based team still playing in this year's playoffs.
The Montreal Canadiens‘ playoff run is well underway, and the energy around the team hasn’t felt like this in a while. After a strong regular season, the Canadiens are now locked into a hard-fought first-round matchup with the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Tampa Bay Lightning left winger Brandon Hagel was a busy man on Tuesday night.
Slafkovsky's trifecta of goals resulted in the first playoff hat trick of his young career.
In his brief career, the 22-year-old Slafkovsky has already established himself as a big-game player.
Montreal Canadiens’ forward Juraj Slafkovsky was instrumental in his team’s 4-3 comeback victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday night, scoring three points, including two critical points late.
The USA men's Olympic hockey team has not won a gold medal since the 1980 Miracle On Ice team, and they entered the 2026 games expecting to break that drought. It's all right in front of them.
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.
Montreal Canadiens fans are wondering whether Juraj Slafkovsky has arrived yet. And the short answer is complicated. Because Montreal isn’t just waiting.
It was quite the surprise back in July 2022 when the Montreal Canadiens stepped onto the stage at the Bell Centre and announced they were selecting Juraj Slafkovsky with the first overall pick in the draft.
The offseason leading into the 2025-26 season continues, and with the major events such as the NHL Entry Draft and free agent frenzy completed, the dog days of summer wear on as NHL management groups take a bit of a breather before the training camps begin.
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