All Entries Tagged With: "habs"
Bruins Complete 2-Game Sweep Of Montreal; Prepare for Senators In Pre-Season Home Finale
On Monday night, the Bruins faced off against the rival Canadiens for the second straight night. This time, the game would be at Montreal’s home arena, the Bell Centre. Coming off a strong performance the night before, in a 7-3 victory against the Habs, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the Bruins were looking for the [...]
Max Pacioretty ready to break out
Playing only his second pre-season game since returning from a broken vertebrae as a result of the Zdeno Chara incident that happened on March 8th, 2011 at Bell Centre. The 22 year-old winger had to miss the remainder of the season and the first round of the playoffs. Now back at 100% after an intensive [...]
Montreal Canadiens’ rookie camp opens today ***updated with contest***
Now that the dog days of summer are over and that October is lurking ahead, many NHL training camps will be starting this week in anticipation of the pre-season, which will begin on Monday, September 19. As for the Canadiens, they will host the Dallas Stars at Bell Centre on Tuesday, September 20, for their [...]
Canadiens ink Erik Cole and Peter Budaj to multi-year deals
Looking for a back-up to starter Carey Price, the Canadiens signed goaltender Peter Budaj to a two-year, $2.3-million contract. Budaj, 28, played a total of 45 games with the Colorado Avalanche in 2010-11. He posted a record of 15 wins, 21 losses and 4 overtime losses to go along with a 3.20 GAA and a [...]
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 [...]
Pierre Gauthier addresses the press; Canadiens rookie training camp kicks in
Earlier today Pierre Gauthier addressed the press in Montreal during a 47-minute presser, just before the opening of the rookie camp in Brossard, Quebec. Gauthier mentioned the appointment of Carey Price as the team number one goaltender and the recovery of all-star defenseman Andrei Markov, among other things. Gauthier also talked about the Canadiens deep [...]
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 [...]
Tinordi Leaves Notre-Dame, Will Play for London Knights
Look who’s here? Jarred Tinordi must have had a conversation with Louis Leblanc this past week. The Canadiens’ 1st round pick in this past June’s draft will be leaving Notre-Dame of the NCAA to join the OHL team that held his rights, the London Knights. Tinordi was selected 22nd overall at the 2010 NHL Entry [...]
Analyzing the Habs Forwards: “Best of the Rest”
While the players you normally see the most of are the one who score a lot of goals, the ones who put up the most points and the ones who make the most money, they are often the ones who are overrated, over-paid and over-hyped. Every team has players in this category, and the Montreal [...]
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, [...]
Leblanc Chooses Montreal; Habs sign Picard
Finally, some blog-worthy news to come out of the Montreal Canadiens’ camp. It was announced on Friday evening that the Montreal Canadiens have signed 1st round pick Louis Leblanc to a three-year contract. While terms of the contract were not released, you can expect it to hover around the league maximum for an entry-level contract. [...]
TALE OF TWO CITIES: A Scouting Story
Funny dichotomy… NY Rangers lose their head European scout CHRISTER ROCKSTROM. Christer Rockstrom, the man with the rockstar name, was a member of the New York Rangers organization for the past 21 years, including the past five seasons as Director of Player Personnel – Europe. He previously served as a European scout for the Rangers for [...]
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. [...]
With the 27th Pick, the Montreal Canadiens Are Proud to Select…
———————————- In this year’s draft, the Montreal Canadiens will be selecting 27th overall, thanks to their impressive run in the Stanley Cup playoffs. To put things into perspective, if they hadn’t amassed that single overtime point they did in the final game of the season against the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Canadiens would be drafting [...]
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. [...]
BREAKING NEWS: Halak Dealt To Blues
According to various sources, the Montreal Canadiens have shipped goaltender Jaroslav Halak to the St. Louis Blues in return for Lars Eller and Ian Schultz. If you asked yourself ”who?” when looking at that trade, well, you wouldn’t be the only one. Lars Eller looks like a decent prospect. Drafted 13th overall in the 2007 [...]