Tag: Habs Training Camp
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Canadiens training camp is short this year, only 13 days, and the team is about to start an 84-game season. Before camp even opened, they learned Kaiden Guhle would be out and could miss the first 10 games. Now, with eight days and three preseason games in the books and five days to go, Martin…
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Colisée Vidéotron felt like the Bell Centre on Monday night. A near red-out crowd, Michel Lacroix — the same PA voice Canadiens fans have heard for 33 years — calling out every penalty, every goal, every final minute of the period. And in the end, the Canadiens delivered exactly the kind of finish that night…
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The second and final week of Canadiens training camp is underway, and this is where things start to matter. Week one was only two preseason games and a handful of practices — nothing was decided, and nothing should have been. Martin St-Louis and his coaching staff will wait until next Sunday to make the calls…
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Day 1 of Canadiens training camp wasn’t a feeling-out session — Kreider went straight onto the top line, and the ripple effects tell you how this roster’s really built.
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Training camp opened today with a different kind of pressure hanging over the Bell Centre — the Canadiens’ window is wide open, and that’s the good kind of pressure. For the first time in over a decade, nobody in Montreal is asking the Canadiens to just make the playoffs. After last spring’s run, the only…