Category: Habs
-
The Canadiens open their season Tuesday night in Toronto with essentially the same team that closed out last year. Chris Kreider is in for Brendan Gallagher, rookie Florian Xhekaj is in for Joe Veleno, and that’s about it for turnover up front. Everywhere else, it’s the same group, the same lines, the same identity Martin…
-
The Canadiens hit the ice Monday for their first official practice of the 2026-27 season at the CN Sports Complex, and the first look at lines and pairings gave an early read on how camp is shaping up ahead of the opener. Twenty-three players took part in the session. For the full picture on the…
-
Montreal’s training camp is officially in the books. The Canadiens closed out the preseason Saturday night, finishing with a 4-1-0 record, and confirmed their 23-man roster for the season Sunday — the group they have to formally submit to the NHL by 5:00 PM ET today. It was a short camp by any measure: just…
-
MONTREAL – The Canadiens have their opening night roster. With the NHL’s Monday, September 28 deadline looming, Montreal trimmed its training camp group down to 14 forwards, seven defensemen and two goaltenders, submitting nine players to waivers with the intention of assigning them to the Laval Rocket. The club didn’t put out a formal release…
-
MONTREAL – Training camp is officially over, and next week the Canadiens turn the page for real. Tuesday’s opener in Toronto is the only game that will count from here, but Saturday’s exhibition finale gave Martin St-Louis one last look at his group split across two rinks. The results canceled each other out: Montreal’s top…
-
Four years ago, training camp in Montreal was an audition. There wasn’t much of an NHL roster worth protecting, so jobs went to whoever looked best in September. That camp doesn’t exist anymore, and Jeff Gorton said as much this week, speaking to the Basu and Godin Notebook podcast (via The Athletic). “I think the…
-
BROSSARD – When the Canadiens hired Derek Lalonde as associate coach this summer, nobody in the organization needed to guess what his first assignment would be. Montreal’s penalty kill finished 18th in the NHL last season — not disastrous, but not good enough for a team that wants to play meaningful hockey in a stacked…
-
The Canadiens have a good problem on their hands: too much talent for too few jobs. With the preseason winding down and hard roster calls looming, both the men who have to make them sounded remarkably calm about it this week. General manager Kent Hughes stopped by RDS’s studios Thursday to talk through the summer…
-
Midway through training camp, the Canadiens reorganized their groups this week — one now built around the players expected to open the season in Montreal, the other, Group B, for everyone else — not headed to Laval or the ECHL yet, just not part of the NHL-bound group for these reps. It made for a…
-
The Montreal Canadiens announced Wednesday that former owner George Gillett Jr. passed away on September 22 at the age of 87. No cause of death has been made public. Gillett, born October 22, 1938, in Racine, Wisconsin, bought the Canadiens and the Molson Centre on January 31, 2001. He owned the franchise until June 20,…