Tag: habs
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Martin St-Louis has a phrase for how he wants this team thinking, and he used it more than once Monday at the Canadiens’ golf tournament in Laval-sur-le-Lac: “Win Your Day.” Process over outcome. Stack the days, let the season sort itself out. Kent Hughes and Jeff Gorton stayed in that same register all morning —…
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The Montreal Canadiens made it official Monday: head coach Martin St-Louis has signed a multi-year contract extension, general manager Kent Hughes announced. The team didn’t disclose the exact term — standard for coaching deals — but TSN’s Pierre LeBrun reports the deal is believed to be three years on top of St-Louis’s existing contract, which…
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The Montreal Canadiens made it official Monday morning: Josh Anderson has been named an alternate captain for the 2026-27 season, joining captain Nick Suzuki and returning alternate Mike Matheson in the team’s leadership group. General manager Kent Hughes made it official, filling the letter left open since Brendan Gallagher was traded to Vancouver this summer.…
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The Montreal Canadiens signed winger Zachary Bolduc to a four-year contract extension on Sunday, worth $16.8 million total at a $4.2 million cap hit, running through the 2029-30 season. News of the deal was first reported by TSN’s Chris Johnston, with general manager Kent Hughes making it official Sunday from Gatineau. Bolduc, 23, just wrapped…
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The Montreal Canadiens have signed veteran winger Chris Kreider to a one-year contract for 2026-27, reportedly worth $2.15 million guaranteed with up to $3.25 million more available in performance bonuses. Kreider, 35, hit the open market after a mutual contract termination with the Anaheim Ducks, where he’d just spent one season: 75 games, 22 goals,…
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The Montreal Canadiens’ rookie team dropped the opening game of the Prospect Challenge weekend on Saturday afternoon, falling 3-1 to the Winnipeg Jets in Gatineau. Viggo Björck — Winnipeg’s first-round pick, 8th overall in the 2026 draft — opened the scoring 13:18 into the first period, assisted by Brayden Yager and Nause, to put the…
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Every training camp has one job battle that says more about a team’s philosophy than any other, and for the Canadiens this fall it’s the fight for the 13th forward spot. On paper it looks like a simple depth-chart question. In practice it’s a referendum on how Montreal wants to build: reward the players it…
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The Canadiens have released their roster for the 2026 Rookie Camp, inviting 23 players to Brossard and Gatineau ahead of a training camp that opens in less than two weeks. The group runs from September 11-15, with a two-game Prospect Challenge against Winnipeg and Ottawa built into the schedule — the first real look at…
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For Canadiens fans, watching every game this season means juggling more moving parts than usual. The 2026-27 season is the first 84-game slate the NHL has played since 1993-94 — a scheduling change built into the new CBA to create more space between the Stanley Cup Final and the draft — and it’s also the…
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The Athletic just dropped its 2026-27 NHL Player Tiers — the latest edition of a project built by senior writers Harman Dayal, Thomas Drance, Sean Gentille, Shayna Goldman, and Dom Luszczyszyn. They sort the 150 best players in hockey into five tiers, from Tier 1 (MVP/Cornerstone) down to Tier 5 (Support), each broken into A/B/C…