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Sunday Habs Headlines: Faith in Owen Beck

Montreal Canadiens news and notes

  • Standing pat at the deadline was a vote of confidence in Owen Beck’s ability to help the team in its post-season push. [La Presse]
  • On International Women’s Day yesterday, Martin St-Louis d

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Vancouver Canucks Expected To Waive Spencer Martin

The Vancouver Canucks are expected to place goaltender Spencer Martin on waivers today unless a trade materializes in the next few hours, reports Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman. Martin, a candidate to compete for the backup job behind Thatcher Dem

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Published: 1 year ago

Montreal Canadiens: The Hockey News Picks Cole Caufield As Breakout Player Of The Year

The Montreal Canadiens are heading into the 2023-24 season with, let’s call them low expectations. They fell to the bottom of the NHL standings in 2021-22 and were the fifth worst team in the league last season. Not many people are expecting them t

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Published: 1 year ago

Major transactions concluded by the General Manager of the Montreal Canadiens: Joel Armia and Brendan Gallagher are the only two bad contracts of the Marc Bergevin era

Since his hiring with the Montreal Canadiens, Kent Hughes had a very specific plan in mind.

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Published: 1 year ago

Canadiens See Newhook at Center for a Reason

It may be just one preseason game, but Alex Newhook at center makes a lot of sense for the Montreal Canadiens.

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Published: 1 year ago

Must Watch: Arber Xhekaj and Michael Pezzetta drop the gloves during the Montreal Canadiens' practice to work on their fighting techniques

Upon his arrival with the Montreal Canadiens, Arber Xhekaj quickly established himself as one of the best fighters in the league, delivering solid KOs to the majority of his opponents.

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Published: 1 year ago

NHL Watchability Rankings: The bottom 16

As the new NHL season approaches, we've already put together power rankings, offseason grades, and even team rankings by tiers. But what about assessing the clubs purely from an entertainment standpoint?That's the goal of this exercise, which, as alw

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Published: 1 year ago

Montreal Canadiens Lucky To Get Something For Joel Edmundson When They Did

The Montreal Canadiens made a couple of trades in the offseason, with the biggest surprise coming when they traded a couple of draft picks for Alex Newhook. It was really not a surprise when the team traded Joel Edmundson, though the chances of a dea

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Published: 1 year ago

Montreal Canadiens: This Could Be Last Year For Johnathan Kovacevic, David Savard

The Montreal Canadiens have done a great job addressing, what was a weakness in the organization. Since Shea Weber retired, and Jeff Petry was traded away, the right side of the blueline had a downgrade in talent. Mike Matheson, Kaiden Guhle and many

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Published: 1 year ago

Bottom Six Minutes: Juraj Slafkovsky finds his mojo with Dach

Pre-season wins, meaningless though they may be, have been hard to come by for the Montreal Canadiens in recent years. They got one on Wednesday night, taking down the Belleville Ottawa Senators at the Bell Centre ahead of an upcoming three-game set

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Published: 1 year ago

Montreal Canadiens: Patience Is Key With The Future of Juraj Slafkovsky

The Montreal Canadiens never should’ve played forward Juraj Slafkovsky in the NHL last season. There, now that that’s out of the way, let’s discuss training camp a bit. With the Canadiens intra-squad scrimmages having gotten underway this past

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Published: 1 year ago

Thursday Habs Headlines: Mike Matheson dealing with a minor injury

In today's links, an update on Matheson's situation, the versatility of Sean Monahan, the dream of playing for the Montreal Canadiens, Calgary has a new captain, a toned-down All-Star Skills Competition, and the debut of Connor Bedard.

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Published: 1 year ago

Juraj Slafkovsky shines as Canadiens edge Senators in pre-season action

The 19-year-old man/child scored once in a hard-fought 4-3 victory, but was around the net all night and could have had more.

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Published: 1 year ago