Vinzenz Rohrer has been loaned to EV Zug of the Swiss National League for the reminder of the Swiss team’s 2026-27 season. Rohrer signed a three-year entry level contract with the Canadiens in June 2025, but signed a deal with Zug earlier this month.
Les Canadiens ont prêté l'attaquant Vinzenz Rohrer au EV Zug dans la Ligue nationale suisse pour la saison 2026-2027. The Canadiens have loaned forward Vinzenz Rohrer to the EV Zug in the Swiss National League for the 2026-27 season. pic.tw...
Anze Kopitar is Los Angeles Kings' royalty, and later on this season, he's going to receive his flowers, and feel the love from the organization, and the fan base. The Kings have announced they will retire Kopitar's No.11 and unveil a bronze statue for the franchise cornerstone on February 24, 2027, against the Montreal Canadiens. Kopitar announced his retirement towards the end of last season, and feels it's surreal to see the organization honor him so soon after his playing days. To have my ...
Montreal Canadiens news and notes
Whether the Canadiens have two goalies or three, Jakub Dobeš is prepared for what the 2026-27 brings. [ Journal de Montreal ]
Alexandre Carrier says the Canadiens still being the league’s youngest team with several rounds of playoff experience has them in a good spot for the new season. [ Journal de Montreal ]
Around the league and elsewhere
The Dallas Stars enter the season with their Stanley Cup window beginning to close. [ NHL.com ...
We are now more than a month removed from the opening of NHL free agency, and most of the biggest names have already found homes for the 2026-27 season. However,…
The Liiga preseason handed two NHL prospects their first competitive shifts of the 2026-27 season on Friday, Aug. 7. Montreal Canadiens forward Aatos Koivu centered a line for TPS Turku,…
Mike Rupp sees a 60-goal ceiling for Cole Caufield after his 51-goal breakout season.
Kaiden Guhle was drafted by the previous management regime; however, his presence in the Montreal Canadiens lineup fits the ideal […]
Originally written by Alexander Sciola, with updates by M. Boyd. The impact of Ken Dryden’s incredible legacy and body of work was felt off the ice just as much as…
In today’s rumour rundown, we start off with the Montreal Canadiens, who are looking for a right-shot defenseman, and two targets have been revealed. Next, the Los Angeles Kings are…
Nick Suzuki has steadily developed into one of the NHL’s most complete centres, and his progression was rewarded in 2025-26 when the Montreal Canadiens captain captured the first Selke Trophy…
It’s August. We’re in the middle of the most dead period on the hockey calendar. Sure, Nikita Grebenkin got re-signed so there is at least something related to the Philadelphia Flyers to talk about, but we’re firmly in a time where we are just sitting here and waiting and thinking about training camp starting in over a month.
So, why not think of some possible transactions?
The Flyers might not make some trades before the season starts, but there could certainly be something going on...
Kent Hughes keeps pushing back his own deadline. Montreal Canadiens general manager told reporters after the trade deadline that a deal was coming, just not on any fixed schedule. "He said it could be July. That didn't happen. Could be August. He said it could be September. It could be October. It could be November," the outlet reported, before adding Hughes' own framing of the situation.
"There's a lot of things that can still happen between now and the start of the season," Hughes said, ac...
Montreal Canadiens news and notes
Five players who should improve on their 2025-26 performance. [ Journal de Montreal ]
Lane Hutson is projected to take over as the league’s top defenceman within the next five years. [ NHL.com ]
Hutson and Ivan Demidov have arguably the two best-value contracts in the NHL. [ Sportsnet ]
Signing so many players to maximum-length contracts is something the Canadiens have in common with the Florida Panthers and Carolina Hurricanes. [ RDS ]
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Patrik Laine remains one of the top options on the UFA market for teams looking for an offensive boost for their lineups. The seven-time 20-goal scorer and former 2nd overall pick in the NHL Draft will have to take a massive pay cut, as he's coming off his $8.7 million AAV contract. The Montreal Canadiens don't seem the least bit interested in bringing him back, after Laine played just five games for them last year, due to injury, and then their reluctance to add him back to the roster f...
Things have gone quiet recently on the Vladimir Tarasenko front on the free agent market. The UFA has been linked to several teams throughout the offseason, from the incumbent Minnesota Wild, to the Edmonton Oilers to the Ottawa Senators. Now we can add another Canadian team to the mix, as Jimmy Murphy and Shayne Gaumond speculated on The Sick Podcast this week that the Montreal Canadiens would be a perfect fit for the nine-time 20-goal scorer. Should the #GoHabsGo give...
In today’s NHL rumors rundown, Auston Matthews and Jack Roslovic could be an interesting pairing for the Toronto Maple Leafs this season. Meanwhile, the Montreal Canadiens remain patient as trade…
The Montreal Canadiens have made it rather clear: their goal is to draft players who will be able to bring […]
As we get into the dog days of summer and until training camp, thesickpodcast.com will profile Montreal Canadiens players based on their expected role for the 2026-27 NHL season. Montreal Canadiens superstar Lane Hutson will be entering his third year in the NHL during the 2026-27 season, and we’ve yet to see the best of […]
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Welcome back to The Contrarian, the feature where you state the obvious and then I tell you why you’re wrong. It’s been over a year since we’ve done this, because I forgot I’ve been waiting for you to come up with some worthy challenges. But with Slow News Summer crawling along, this is as good a time as any for me to do what modern sports media is apparently supposed to do best: Argue loudly and aggressively for positions I may or may not actually believe in.
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It’s getting dangerously close to where the Montreal Canadiens have to win it all to meet expectations. What should be the goal in 2026-27?
There comes a time in every meticulously planned rebuild when a general manager (GM) has to look at his board, swallow hard, and consider trading away something that genuinely hurts…
Introduction
The past couple of years this has mostly been an extension of the Top 25, with too many players showing NHL ability to fit into the official countdown. With the six graduating NHLers, the quality isn’t quite the same this year, and more in line with what this section of players has usually been: skaters with an NHL skill or two but not the full set required to crack a roster, and some unproven goaltenders.
Every one of the nine players we’ll profile here did receive at l...
Montreal Canadiens news and notes
The Xhekaj story, from refugee roots to NHL dreams. [ Instagram – UNHCR ]
Three players who could surprise at training camp. [ The Hockey Writers ]
Will Ville Koivunen’s contract impact the Zachary Bolduc negotiations? [ Journal de Montreal ]
WHL players and alumni within the Canadiens prospect pool. [ WHL ]
Around the league and elsewhere
The Pittsburgh Penguins gave Koivunen a stunningly unnecessary eight-year, $32 million...
The Montreal Canadiens are always looking for diamonds in the rough, including when they selected L.J. Mooney with the 113th […]
With training camp just a few weeks away, most NHL rosters are close to being finalized. That doesn’t mean teams are done adding players. Every year, several veterans and NHL…