Stu Cowan: Pressure's on Tomas Plekanec as Habs lose Alex Galchenyuk
ST. LOUIS — There’s a great scene in the movie The Rocket in which former Canadiens coach Dick Irvin has the trainers drag a hockey net into the team’s locker room. Maurice Richard and his teammates...
View ArticleIn the Habs' Room: Plekanec finds scoring touch again
ST. LOUIS — Canadiens coach Michel Therrien was asked after Tuesday’s morning skate at the Scottrade Center if there was more pressure on Tomas Plekanec to score now that Alex Galchenyuk is sidelined...
View ArticleStu Cowan: Canadiens appear jinxed after losing Galchenyuk, Desharnais
As the media waited for coach Michel Therrien to arrive for his post-game news conference Tuesday night at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, three Canadiens players were busy working out in a...
View ArticleDevils at Canadiens Thursday 7:30 p.m.: Five things to know
The Canadiens return from a five-game road trip to play the New Jersey Devils at the Bell Centre on Thursday (7:30 p.m., Sportsnet 360, RDS, TSN 690 Radio). Here are five things you should know about...
View ArticleCanadiens also having injury problems with AHL's IceCaps
Maybe the Canadiens really are jinxed. After losing centres Alex Galchenyuk and David Desharnais for 6-8 weeks with knee injuries, Phillip Danault — another Hab who can play centre — showed up for the...
View ArticleCanadiens likely to stand pat and weather injury storm
“It’s only one game,” Torrey Mitchell said after the Canadiens ran roughshod over the New Jersey Devils for a 5-2 win Thursday night. But that one win offered an insight into why the Canadiens will...
View ArticleMax Pacioretty's hat trick powers Canadiens to 5-2 win over Sabres
The bottom line: Max Pacioretty scored three goals and goaltender Carey Price made 37 saves to lead the Canadiens to a 5-2 win over the Buffalo Sabres Tuesday at the Bell Centre. For a while, it looked...
View ArticleStu Cowan: Canadiens can't score — even in a practice shootout
This is really starting to get ugly. The Canadiens simply can’t score and they showed it again Sunday morning when they held a shootout competition at the end of their annual open public practice at...
View ArticleCanadiens improve size, but not scoring, at NHL trade deadline
Marc Bergevin said the trading deadline offers teams an opportunity to meet their needs and, with one notable exception, he felt the Canadiens did that. The one exception — and this is the one which...
View ArticleStu Cowan: Desharnais now living in giant shadow with Oilers
EDMONTON — After Edmonton lost 3-2 in a shootout to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday night at Rogers Place, Connor McDavid was surrounded by the media in the Oilers’ locker room. McDavid, the NHL...
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