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.

Montreal Canadiens rose in the NHL lottery and will choose the third place in the overall standings. Should they think about moving this option to fill the real need? Montreal Canadiens completed the fourth worst record in the NHL this season. They were lucky to climb one place in the NHL lottery and now it will be the third place in the overall standings. Rarely, the top three traders are traded, but Habs consider this? Well, general manager Mark Bergevin will consider any deal if she makes the team better. He must keep all his possibilities open with such precious treasure. A safe choice would be to keep the choice and take the best player. This is what most people do when they are at the position of Berghevin.

OHL's playoffs finally ended, and the Montreal Canadiens Vista Will Bite along with his Hamilton Bulldogs is the team on the top. Four series and 16 wins - all you need to win the championship. To say this is so that the journey sounds so simple, but it's far from the case. However, despite several hits on the road, Hamilton's Bulldogs made it easy. Now they, and, most importantly, the Montreal Canadiens, the nickname Will Bitten are the champions of the OHL. Many thought that Hamilton would fight on the way to the finals, especially in the second round. But they adhered to the game plan and continued to perform. Whenever they found themselves on the other side of the victory, the team quickly assembled and responded well. Their difficult task appeared in their series against Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds (no duh), as they were ardent outsiders.

In the Montreal Canadiens there is a difficult decision about whether to trade or rewrite Max Pacioretty. If they keep their captain, what would it cost? Montreal Canadiens disappointed with 2017-18. Max Pacioretty, captain of the team, was also far from the best this season. The American winger has strengthened himself as one of the best scorers in the game, but has not helped this reputation in the last 12 months.

Montreal Canadiens goes to the off-season with an abundance of sediment. This gives them the opportunity to create a franchise for the next decade. Montreal Canadiens suffered from a miserable season 2017-18. The victory in 29 games during the long 82nd game schedule is not ideal. In fact, the team only had twice less wins, dating back to the 1963 season. One of them was in 1994-1995, when the lockout reduced the NHL calendar to 48 games. Even in 2012-13, although they played 48 games, they were able to win 29 games. Hell, in the 1940s there were only 50 or 60 game schedules, but they could still win 30. Going out in first place in 29 of 82 games should not happen in the era of NHL parity. The bright side of horror in the NHL is that you are rewarded with the best choice in the NHL project. Montreal did not get the best choice, but should choose the third in the annual tournament. They are not only ranked third, but also general manager Mark Bergewin has been collecting fees for ...

This would make a great story if the Montreal Canadiens was able to rewrite free agent Tomas Plekanec. This is for sure. What is not entirely true is if he had a beautiful ending or not. Plekanec, after literally years of thinking that it will be his last, like Hab, finally trades up to the Toronto maple leaf in the trade deadline. Now waiting for an unrestricted free agent, the Czech center, who spent his entire 13-year career before that moment with the Canadiens, has now shown interest in returning. If this happens, Plekanec, with 981 games played with Canadiens (total 998), will have a chance to reach 1000, becoming in the process only the sixth in the history of the team to do it. This would be an impressive achievement and, perhaps, worthy of a deal on the cheap of all by itself, "cheap", which is operational terminology. Of course, Plekanec enjoyed a relatively impressive series of playoffs against Boston Bruins (two goals, two assists) before the Lifestyles w...

Montreal Canadiens has the third overall choice, but must develop for a specific need for an NHL project this year. In Montreal, the Canadiens was a lousy season in 2017-18. It started badly, and they never returned the train to the tracks. There were many more falls than the takeoffs for the Habs, which, unfortunately, they could not overcome. However, this leads to the fact that the team rises to the podium to the majority in the NHL project. Canadiens was the 28th best album in the 31st team. Thanks to a small lottery, they jumped on the third overall choice. This gives the team the opportunity to add a much needed shot of talent. When the team sits so low in the standings, they can usually add talent to any position. However, Habs can afford to be a little more picky than most teams on the wrong end of the page of the standings. Canadiens, obviously, will not seek to add a goalkeeper in the near future. They also boast an impressive group of winged on both sides of the l...

When general manager Mark Bergevin said that during the off-season there would be changes in the Canadiens, he probably did not think that they would attract his friend and mentor Rick Dudley. But 69-year-old Dudley resigned as senior vice president of the hockey team to take a similar position with the Carolina hurricanes on Tuesday. The reports that Dudley was talking to the Hurricanes appeared last week. Bergewin was asked about Dudley on Saturday night, when the Canadiens provided the overall choice of No. 3 in a draft in New York next month. Bergevin said that he hopes that Dudley will remain with the team. Hurricanes had a deadline to complete the deal, because the Canadiens holds meetings this week to discuss its plans for the project and clearly did not want to give anything to the opposition, although it should be noted that Carolina chooses ahead of the Canadiens in the first round.

As the playoffs of the National Hockey League continue, and the teams are playing to raise the venerable Stanley Cup, the iconic Montreal Canadiens are planning next season. The team with most of the Stanley Cup championships in the history of the NHL - 24 - Montreal did not even claim the playoffs in what was a disaster of the 2017-2018 season for the Canadiens. As fans in Montreal are surprised that it did not go so late with their favorite team, just like the supporters of Canadiens in Sault Ste. Marie - including the self-proclaimed no. 1 fanatic Habs, the legend of local radio Lou Turco. It's been a while since Montreal won its last Stanley Cup. It would have been in 1993, when the Canadiens, supported by the goal of the play-off of the most valuable player Patrick Roy, won three overtime games to drive out the "Los Angeles Kings" in the Stanley Cup finals.