Tag: Habs News
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Ivan Demidov will miss two to four weeks with a lower-body injury. Here is the Canadiens lineup against Carolina, what the injury changes and why Florian Xhekaj and Jakub Dobes matter tonight.
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Martin St-Louis enters his fifth season as Canadiens head coach with a new reality: real depth, higher expectations and a puck possession gap to close.
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Hockey is back, and the whole organization is playing again. Only the Lions have not started their season yet. The Canadiens opened on September 29, the Rocket and the NCAA prospects followed on October 2, and many European prospects started earlier in September. Every Monday during the season, we will publish a Weekly Report on…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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Brendan Gallagher wore that letter for years, through some of the hardest seasons this franchise has had in a generation. When he was traded to Vancouver this summer after his role and his ice time shrank last year, he didn’t just leave a hole in the bottom six — he left an empty letter next…