All Entries Tagged With: "Montreal Canadiens"
Hawks Surge Past Habs As Cunneyworth Has More Issue Than Speaking French
The Blackhawks battled through fatigue, scored a couple of fluky goals and then finished the job in the final period to defeat the Montreal Canadiens 5-1. Wednesday night, the Hawks notched another home ice victory to extend their strong record at the United Center to 12-2-3. Montreal native Corey Crawford returned to action and was [...]
DAILY RUMORS: Shooting down the notion of the Canadiens trading for Martin Havlat
The Montreal Canadiens have found themselves mired in a horrific slump since early December, dropping nine of twelve games entering the first week of January. Canadiens GM Pierre Gauthier wasted little time hitting the trade market to address the problem, acquiring offensive-minded blueliner James Wisniewski from the Islanders and shipping unhappy checking forward Maxim Lapierre [...]
Bruins Pregame – 11/11/10 – Boston Bruins vs Montreal Canadiens
The Boston Bruins are on the heels of their biggest offensive outburst of the season and will try to replicate last night’s effort tonight as they welcome the hated Montreal Canadiens into TD Garden for a Northeast Division battle. Last season, the Habs took five out of the six meetings between the two teams, with [...]
Around the Canadiens training camp; the Price saga continues
Tonight the Canadiens will host the Minnesota Wild and former Hab Gullaume Latendresse at the Bell Centre in the third game in three nights for Jacques Martin’s team. The Canadiens will also host the Florida Panthers tomorrow on home ice. It is expected that the team will keep around 27-28 players for the last ten [...]
Off-Season Analysis: The Goaltending
Over the last few weeks, we’ve taken in-depth looks at the forwards (first the top six and then “the best of the rest”) and defense of the Montreal Canadiens, grading their 2009-10 season, ranking the players amongst each other and looking ahead to what their 2010-11 season might look like. While there may have been a few players [...]
Off-Season Analysis: The Defense
Breaking: According to the team, the Montreal Canadiens have traded AHL goaltender Cedrick Desjardins to the Tampa Bay Lightning in exchange for goaltender Karri Ramo. Ramo, a 24-year-old native of Finland who has played 48 NHL games since 2007, played for the Omsk Avangard of the KHL this past season, and has one more year [...]
Off-Season Analysis: The Top-Six Forwards
In anticipation of the season to start, or frankly, for anything hockey-related to happen, it’s time to slowly start to get back into the groove of things. Reading about hockey, writing about hockey, and of course, eventually, watching hockey. As the anticipation for the upcoming season looms, it’ll start to get easier. But for now, [...]
Canadiens Sign Maxim Lapierre to 1-Year Deal
According to various sources, Maxim Lapierre has re-signed with the Montreal Canadiens for the upcoming season. His new, 1-year deal is slated to be worth between $840,000 and $900,000, depending on the source, but which ever number ends up becoming official, it would be a great figure for the 3rd line forward and for the [...]
Blues Sign Halak; What it Means for the Habs and Price
The St. Louis Blues have ensured that they will have a starting goaltender for the foreseeable future today, inking Jaroslav Halak to a 4-year, $15 million deal, which will average out to $3.75 million per season. Halak was acquired by the Blues from the Montreal Canadiens last month in exchange for prospects Lars Eller and Ian [...]
No Moves? No Problem! (for now)
If you were a Habs fan on July 1st, then odds are you spent the day either drinking and celebrating Canada Day, or in front of your laptop, TV (tuned to TSN2) and/or cell phone, waiting for news of a big signing by Canadiens’ General Manager Pierre Gauthier. Odds are, when you put all that [...]
Canadiens Trade Sergei Kostitsyn to Predators
The Montreal Canadiens have traded problematic forward Sergei Kostitsyn to the Nashville Predators. The deal is simply an exchange of pending free agents, as Montreal received center Dustin Boyd (RFA) and goaltender Dan Ellis (UFA) in return. Future Considerations are involved for both teams, presumably if any of the players end up signing or not. [...]
Analyzing the Plekanec Deal + A Second Look at the Halak Trade
For the first time in a long time, Montreal Canadiens’ fans can actually relax heading into the Free Agent Frenzy of July 1st. With a week left to go until this year’s set of NHL contracts are due to expire, the job seems to be half done for GM Pierre Gauthier and the Montreal Canadiens. [...]
It’s Your Turn, Pierre: The Great Captaincy Debate
Yesterday, the Toronto Maple Leafs ended an entire season of speculation when they announced Dion Phaneuf as their new captain, the 18th in their long storied history. The decision was generally met with approval from most Leafs fans. Phaneuf certainly represents the team that Brina Burke has built this far well, in terms of truculence, belligerence, [...]
Report: Habs to Visit Flames in (2nd) 2011 Winter Classic
According to Bob McKenzie and TSN, there will be 2 (count ‘em, TWO!) NHL Winter Classics in 2011. TCL reported nearly two months ago that Pittsburgh would be hosting the traditional Winter Classic on January 1st, 2011 against their rivals, the Washington Capitals, but it seems like the NHL is going to reward hockey fans [...]
Richards: This was a long way coming
The Philadelphia Flyers played last night’s game 3 in Montreal as if they were going to coast into the Stanley Cup finals. However, the Montreal Canadiens thought much differently. After the Flyers suffered probably their worst defeat of this postseason, a 5-1 defeat to the Habs where they were far and away less superior than their opponent compared [...]
Habs – Flyers Game 2: UGLY
Ugly. Probably the word that best describes Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals. At least for the Montreal Canadiens. Words such as embarrassing, cringe-worthy, disconcerting and humiliating also come to mind, but when you really get done to the nitty-gritty of what happened Sunday night in Philadelphia, UGLY is really the most accurate term [...]
Flyers, Leighton demolish Halak and Habs in series opener
If anyone went around the internet or television to preview this Eastern Conference matchup between the Flyers and Habs, all the ‘experts’ came around to the same key for the Flyers to win: Get to Jaroslav Halak. Oh, did the Flyers ever take that advice to the bank. The Flyers had talked about getting in front of Halak, developing quality [...]
Habs – Flyers Game 1: Destinies Collide
Yeah, Yeah. By now, we’ve all heard of what the Philadelphia Flyers have accomplished. Coming back from a 3-0 series deficit, only the third team in history to accomplish such a feat. Moreover, coming back from a 3-0 deficit in game 7 to win by the score of 4-3. Kind of poetic, isn’t it? Leave [...]
A Team to be Proud of
You might be wondering why it took me nearly two days to roll out a blog on the Montreal Canadiens game 7 victory. Simply put, I had no words to describe what myself, and nearly every Montreal Canadiens fan, especially the ones in this city, were feeling on Wednesday night. And really, there ARE NO [...]
Pens – Habs Game 7: The Biggest Game Since 1993
Join us LIVE tonight for yet another game 7 LIVE BLOG! Steven Hindle, Kamal Panesar, and a bunch of panelists! Just open this thread back up at 6:30PM EST for all the pre-game coverage! TCL Presents: Pens – Habs Game 7 *LIVE BLOG* ———————————– Not too long ago, the Montreal Canadiens were standing in the [...]
