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According To Timmins, Canadiens Future Filled With Promise
During the course of the past week, Canadiens fans heard the raves of GM Bob Gainey, coach Guy Carbonneau, and team president Pierre Boivin regarding the Habs crop of youngters set to battle for positions on the team in the coming seasons. The most prominant of these names, Carey Price, has just...
Master Bob's Masterplan
The Montreal Canadiens wheeling and dealings of the past week leave little doubt that Canadiens GM Bob Gainey and staff are hard at work preparing for next season. With Andrei Markov tagged for four more years, an offer tended to Sheldon Souray, an overseas late bloomer gobbled up as a free agent,...
Is Paying The Price in Cristobal's Crystal Ball?
What a troublemaker that Carey Price, upsetting the evolving Canadiens goaltending hierarchy by becoming too good, too soon!Three years and three goalies in succession, all of whom have captured the imaginations of Habs fans, has created the happiest of problems for Canadiens GM Bob Gainey.First...
Carey Price Will Start Season In Montreal
Remember that no matter where you read this statement next, I am underlining it loudly now, as it is carved in stone in my mind.For a bundle of logical reasons.Yes, there are some hockey thinkers that propose not rushing a blue chip prospect such as Price. They subscribe to gently cradling this...
Waivered Players Place Gainey In A Catch - 22
The axe has fallen on the chances of 29 Montreal Canadiens hopefuls as GM Bob Gainey announced departures for Hamilton earlier today. Twenty seven players will be reporting to the AHL club while 2 more are being returned to junior.Among the players backing their bags were training camp surprises...
All 9 'Dog Bound Habs Clear Waivers
According to a report posted on the RDS site just shortly after noon today, none of the 9 Hamilton Bulldog bound Canadiens prospects were claimed on waivers.For Yann Danis, Andrew Archer, Mathieu Biron, Jean-Philippe Cote, Jamie Rivers, Jonathan Ferland, Corey Locke, Duncan Milroy and Cory Urquhart...
Overcoming the Habs' knifing
Honestly, the blown 4-1 lead (Was it really 4-1? Yes. And we lost 5-4?! sigh...yes.) felt like a knifing. The Islanders had the Habs on an off night, actually took advantage of their chances, built a lead ... and soiled their pants. After the second period, the Canadiens woke up, and the Isles fell...
Vintage Blue & Orange eye vengeance with Habs
Montreal Canadiens (7-1-1) at New York Islanders (2-6-1) 7 p.m. | Nassau Coliseum | MSG+ Next week on Lighthouse Hockey: With the Islanders debuting a retro '70s/'80s-era uniform tonight, it begs the question why this more traditional style couldn't have been achieved when the silly...
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