Tag: Martin St-Louis
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Samuel Montembeault left practice hurt and the Canadiens recalled Jacob Fowler from Laval. Kapanen was also missing, and St-Louis wants more battles won and fewer turnovers.
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The Canadiens lost their home opener 6-4 to the Carolina Hurricanes at the Bell Centre. Recap, goalies, special teams and Coach Frenchy’s take on the goals against, Dobes and the slow starters.
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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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The Canadiens didn’t have their A-game in Toronto on Tuesday night, and Martin St-Louis said as much. They still found a way. Jakub Dobeš made the saves when it mattered, the depth throughout the lineup chipped in, and Montreal opened the 2026-27 season with a 3-2 win over the Maple Leafs. That is what a…
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William Nylander scored 48 seconds into the season, and the Canadiens looked like they were about to give one away in Toronto. They did not. Josh Anderson, Zachary Bolduc and Alexandre Carrier scored three straight, and Montreal opened its season with a 3-2 win at Scotiabank Arena on Tuesday night. It was not a pretty…
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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…
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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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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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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…