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Montreal Canadiens Round Up: Price, Markov, Hamrlik, Eller, and Subban
August 27th, 2010
With the new NHL season only 40 days away, the excitement over the upcoming season is slowly starting to build.I just finshed doing a live chat with my Hockeybuzz.com colleagues Eric Engels, Steven Hindle, and about 500 Canadiens fans, during which a few themes seemed to continually resurface.Since the same ...
Montreal Canadiens Trade Desjardins For Ramo: What Do You Think?
August 18th, 2010
As the dust settles on the Montreal Canadiens' latest move—the Habs traded AHLer Cederick Desjardins to Tampa Bay for Karri Ramo—there has been no consensus, among pundits, as to the merits of this trade.Whereas people tend to either love or hate any move that Habs GM Pierre Gauthier makes, this ...
Carey Price Will Sign with the Montreal Canadiens
August 4th, 2010
OK, folks, I have been getting a lot of emails, tweets and other messages about the possibility of the Habs trading Carey Price and signing another goalie to take his place. While I do not have powers of divination and anything is technically possible, these rumors sound like total folly ...
What Does Niemi’s $2.75 Million Abritration Award Mean for Carey Price?
August 2nd, 2010
The Montreal Canadiens have been busy over the last few weeks, signing prospects, depth players, administrators, and scouts. While these moves will serve to strengthen the administrative levels and fringes of the team, there remains one gaping hole in its core: Carey Price.Handed the reigns of the No.1 goaltender the ...
Quick Hits: Montreal Canadiens Sign Louis Leblanc to Three-Year Deal
July 31st, 2010
So Louis Leblanc has finally made a decision about his future, and he has chosen to put aside the red of the Harvard Crimson and sign with the Montreal Canadiens. Click here to read the full press release. Leblanc will now join the Junior de Montreal, ...
NHL Quick Hits: Carey Price Left Out As Canadiens Sign Scouts To Group
July 27th, 2010
The Montreal Canadiens announced today that they have made six key signings behind the scenes.
While everyone is waiting for Carey Price to agree to terms with the team, Gauthier went to work today by adding Serge Boisvert and Ryan Jankowski to the Canadiens' amateur scouting group.
In addition, Gauthier has hired ...
Around the NHL: Ilya Kovalchuk, What’s the Right Price?
July 22nd, 2010
Kovalchuk-Gate So, Lou Lamoriello is fallible after all! In what is quickly becoming the Matt Sundin story of this offseason, super sniper Ilya Kovalchuk still remains unsigned. Well, that is not exactly the case, since he did have a deal with the Devils which was quickly ...
The Top 10 Montreal Canadiens Captains of All Time
July 19th, 2010
The Montreal Canadiens are the oldest and most storied franchise in hockey history. With so much history and tradition behind this great organization, the person who is chosen as captain of the team must take on more responsibility than any other captain in the league.
Not only do they have ...
Will Petteri Simila Become The Next Jaroslav Halak?
July 12th, 2010
Article reprinted from HabsAddict.com
Trevor Timmins draft record for the Canadiens has been something of a mixed bag. Where he has struggled to deliver a homerun with his first round selections, he has made many successful later round picks including the likes of Maxim Lapierre, Sergei Kostitsyn, and Ryan O'Byrne.None, however, ...
Four Big Kids to Watch at the Montreal Canadiens Development Camp
July 5th, 2010
Reprint from HabsAddict.com
The last few days of the NHL off-season have been all about the free agent frenzy. With the NHL draft behind us and players changing cities, signing mega-deals, and teams remaking their rosters, there hasn't been a lot of attention paid to NHL prospects.That, however, is about to ...