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This morning, the Montreal Canadiens announced what we’ve been waiting for: Samuel Montembeault’s contract. The goalie will not become a free agent in 2024, as originally planned. At $3.15 million a year over three years, he accepted, in my eyes, a small discount to stay at home. That’s what he wanted (to stay with the […]

At the moment, the Canadiens have seven defensemen in their active line-up. They are Mike Matheson, Gustav Lindstrom, Justin Barron, Jayden Struble, Kaiden Guhle, Mattias Norlinder and Johnathan Kovacevic. For the past few games, Norlinder has been the extra. He and Struble have been called upon to take the place of Arber Xhekaj and Jordan […]

It’s November 27. The Habs have a 9-10-2 record, meaning they’ve won just nine of their 21 games after a quarter of the season has been played. Only three of those victories came in regular time, the lowest total in the entire NHL. This morning, the CH find themselves 13th out of 16 in the […]

Since the start of the season, the Montreal Canadiens have been hit by a wave of injuries. No, I promise I didn’t just copy a snippet of text from one of my 2021 or 2022 papers. In addition to Carey Price (LTIR), David Savard, Kirby Dach, Jordan Harris, Rafaël Harvey-Pinard, Arber Xhekaj and Chris Wideman […]

In September, we felt that the Canadiens had taken a step forward in their rebuilding and that the club had progressed. At least, that’s what the organization was trying to sell us, and we were buying. Although Jeff Gorton didn’t dare use the P-word(yet), he was talking about an improved team on the right path […]

At this morning’s training session, the main thing I wanted to watch was whether Jordan Harris would be able to train with the others – and if so, whether the pace would be right for him. Why do I say that? Because the defenseman, who was present at training yesterday, is injured. He played against […]

The Arizona Coyotes are solid favorites (-130) at home over the Montreal Canadiens (+110) on Thursday at 10:00 PM ET.

The New Jersey Devils travel to face the Montreal Canadiens on October 24 at 7:15 PM ET, and have been made -230 favorites, with the home team a big underdog

The bookmakers fancy the Buffalo Sabres to top the Montreal Canadiens in their game on Monday, October 23, with the Sabres given moneyline odds of -192 on

The Montreal Canadiens visit the Buffalo Sabres after the Canadiens took down the Washington Capitals 3-2 in overtime.