NHL Montreal Canadiens Blog

We are now so far away from the last Stanley Cup parade along the usual route that the entire Montrealer generation grew up without knowing the intense euphoria that accompanies the championship season. It is a pity, because getting titles was once a part of life here, like urban corruption and a cross on the royal mountain. We would be waiting there for the first floats, and then for the trail along with the players to Peel and further. It always struck me that at this time of year, when most people had healthy tan, the triumphant Canadiens were always pale as ghosts and covered with welts and bruises on their faces, necks and shoulders.

Whether Saku Koivu, Pierre Turgeon or Vincent Damphousse are his barometer, suffice it to say that the Montreal Canadiens have not had a number one bona fide center for a long time. In fact, it reached the point where acquiring (or not acquiring) a number one center could replace the Subban-Weber trade as the turning point in Marc Bergevin's managerial career. The problem is that if you talk to a dozen different people, you are likely to get a dozen definitions of "center number one." Ryan O'Reilly, Paul Stastny and John Tavares are some of the most common names circulating around these parts as possible acquisition targets for the CH, but these are very different players. Could Canadians, either internally or externally, find a William Karlsson or Dylan Larkin diamond in the rough to fill the hole in half?

The last time the Canadiens won the Stanley Cup, Carey Price was two months away from his sixth birthday. Shi Weber was a mature old age of 7 years, and Brendan Gallagher celebrated his first birthday the month before. Jonathan Drewin, Alex Galchenyuk, Jacob De La Rose, Charles Hudon, Artouri Lehkonen, Victor Mete and Noah Julsen were not born. The current members of the Canadiens have little or no memory that the Stanley Cup parade was held in Montreal for the last time. The same goes for the young fans of the team, who probably find it hard to believe that the former mayor of Montreal, Jean-Dropleau, was very proud that the Stanley Cup parade "will go the usual way." The Canadiens won five Stanley Cups in the 1950s, five in the 60s, six in the 70s, one in the 80s, one in the 90s and none of them. June 9 will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Canadiens by defeating Wayne Gretzky in Los Angeles in Los Angeles 4-1 in the game of the 5 finals of the Stanley Cup at ...

Jacob de la Rosa Canadiens won the gold medal at the IIHF World Ice Hockey Championships with the Swedish team over the weekend. Sweden beat Switzerland 3: 2 in a shootout on the last last Sunday, which also became the 23rd birthday of De la Rosa. The TSN hockey club analyst Ray Ferraro covered the World Cup and watched de la Rose when he scored one goal, added an assistant and was a plus-2 in 10 tournament games.

As the world hockey championship ends in 2018, Jacob de La Rose has one player from Montreal Canadiens who stands for the gold medal. Yesterday at the World Hockey Championship in 2018 was an expected and unexpected result. Jacob de La Rose and the team of Sweden finished with the US team, beating them 6-0 to go to the game of the gold medal. Not surprisingly, Sweden won, and the gate differential showed how strong the team is. After that, fans of Montreal Canadiens, no doubt, saw at least one of their players in the final. What took a lot by surprise was the result of the Canadian-Swiss game. The Swiss scored several timely goals and had a starry gate. Leonardo Genoni stood on his head, because his team stopped 43 of 45 shots. This disappointed Canada, which entered this game as a favorite, despite Switzerland's success in Round Robin.

On Thursday, Montreal Canadiens named coach Lauel Raul, his partner of the American Hockey League, Joel Buschar. The 44-year-old Bouchard is doing well in Sylvain Lefevre, who was fired at the end of the regular season after six years of work. It was also announced that the assistants of Lefevre Donald Dufreve and Nick Carrier will not return. Bouchard left as co-owner, president, general manager and coach of the Blaineville-Boisbrand Armada of the Quebec Majors of the Junior Hockey League to accept a missile work that one day could lead to coaching or management work with the NHL club.