Eric Engels News Today

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Mike Matheson’s value is high. David Ettedgui said on the Georges Laraque show (BPM) that Matheson is worth a pick between 6th and 15th

We’ve been talking about it for a long time, but now it’s done: Christian Dvorak will return to action tonight. Even though the Habs said a few months ago that his season was over. In the last few days, there’s been some talk of Dvorak potentially returning to the game. And now it’s confirmed. The […]

At the team’s pre-game talk this morning, Martin St-Louis was the last to speak. He stayed about ten minutes, and a question from Martin McGuire was probably too much. The question wasn’t necessarily stupid, and I would have liked an answer, but the coach didn’t want to answer. Why wouldn’t he? Because there are 10 […]

The Canadiens are still in with a chance of getting a good pick in the next draft. If the draft were held tonight and everything remained intact after the lottery, the Habs would be talking about 6th place… Just after the Arizona Coyotes and just before the Ottawa Senators. San Jose (1), Chicago (2), Anaheim […]

Also in this week's notebook: Quinn Hughes expresses confidence in Hutson, Brendan Gallagher's meaningful road trip and more.

There’s been a lot of talk about the Canadiens’ three-way trade in recent months. Jake Allen was traded to the Devils last Friday, at the NHL trade deadline… And this will have an impact on the use of Cayden Primeau and Samuel Montembeault between now and the end of the season. The latter will see […]

The Canadiens are rebuilding. The club is still looking for the light at the end of the tunnel, but at least there are encouraging signs. I’m thinking in particular of Juraj Slafkovsky, who’s shown great promise over the last twenty games or so. Suzuki is having an excellent season, Caufield is picking up points here […]

When the Habs chose to hire Martin St-Louis as their coach, the risk was minimal. After all, he had been brought in on an interim basis and the club was going nowhere. Then we saw that he was doing things differently, for better or for worse. This convinced Kent Hughes and Jeff Gorton to offer […]

The Jets struck a blow by acquiring Sean Monahan. The Canadiens loved their veteran, but decided to let him go in order to get their hands on a first-round pick. The word on the street was that this would be an excellent move for the Winnipeg outfit… and the proof is in the pudding. Monahan […]