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Friday Habs Headlines: ‘I expect more out of myself’
Montreal Canadiens news and notes Cole Caufield talks about his offensive struggles. [ Sportsnet | NHL.com | Radio-Canada | La Presse | The Athletic | TSN ] Nick Suzuki and Rasmus Dahlin are setting the tone in this showdown. [ Sportsnet | Radio-Canada ] Bryce Pickford has been named the WHL’s Player of the Year. [ Montreal Canadiens ] Martin St-Louis wants to let Lane Hutson be Lane Hutson. [ RDS ] This Sabres-Canadiens playoffs series looks like the future of the A...
Thursday Habs Headlines: Round 2 hype, edge, and expectations
Montreal Canadiens news and notes Looking at eight aspects of the game to see who has the advantage when the Canadiens take on the Buffalo Sabres in Round 2. [ Journal de Montreal ] According to experts, the Canadiens are going to be heading to the Eastern Conference Final. [ Journal de Montreal ] The Canadiens are ready to take on Buffalo and their “highly addictive” city vibe. [ Sportsnet ] After an exceptional season, Nick Suzuki lands in the top three finalists for th...
Canadiens @ Sabres Top Six Minutes: Habs can’t recover from unlucky start in Game 1
First period Lane Hutson tries to play a puck that Zach Benson left behind on his way to the net, but the defenceman gets his stick into the feet of the Sabres forward, and Buffalo gets an immediate power play to begin. A strong kill by Montreal has settled them into this game. Hutson gets the entire left side of the offensive zone to himself, goes in, and fires a shot off Alex Lyon’s pad and up off the crossbar. Now Hutson stumbles along the wall and the puck goes to Ben...
Canadiens @ Sabres Game 1: Thread, lines, and how to watch
2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs – Eastern Conference SFs Game 1: Montreal Canadiens (A3) @ Buffalo Sabres (A1) Start time: 7:00 PM EDT / 4:00 PM PDT In Canada: CBC, Sportsnet (English), TVA Sports (French) In the United States: TNT, truTV Streaming: Sportsnet+ After a tight series with the Tampa Bay Lightning, the Montreal Canadiens are probably hoping for a little more breathing room in their second-round match with the Buffalo Sabres. But that’s unlikely to be the case conside...
Habsent Minded: Looking back at Tampa, what’s ahead in Buffalo
With three podcast coming out in short order there is one article to cover all three. The first is a look back at the Tampa Bay Lightning series. Mostly it focused on a low event hockey gamble from Jon Cooper. The bet was on Andrei Vasilevskiy besting Jakub Dobeš. In the end the goalies stole one game each, and Dobeš came on put on top. Looking back on the picks the panel had a pretty good selection. Jared’s Lane Hutson pick was great, the defender played out of his mind and one...
Marie-Philip Poulin – who else? – scores in triple overtime as Victoire even series vs. Frost
The Montreal Victoire evened its best-of-five playoff series at 1–1 with a gritty triple-overtime win in Game 2, with the goal scored by Captain Clutch herself, Marie-Philip Poulin. Poulin, who was in visible discomfort most of the night, wired a one-timer from the right circle just over four minutes into the third overtime period. “Tonight’s win gives us momentum,” Marie-Philip Poulin said. “We wanted to win at home in front of our fans, we gave them practically two games in one. We...
Canadiens @ Sabres Round 2 Game 1: Preview, start time, Tale of the Tape, and how to watch
2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs – Eastern Conference SFs Game 1: Montreal Canadiens (A3) @ Buffalo Sabres (A1) Start time: 7:00 PM EDT / 4:00 PM PDT In Canada: CBC, Sportsnet (English), TVA Sports (French) In the United States: TNT, truTV Streaming: Sportsnet+ In the regular season, the Montreal Canadiens and Buffalo Sabres met four times. Each scored 13 goals, and each grabbed two wins. The teams were 1-1-0 at home, and 1-1-0 on the road in a season series that wrapped up with three...
Laval @ Toronto recap & highlights: Kähkönen and Blais guide the Rocket to a Game 4 win
With their backs against the wall and the season on the line, the Laval Rocket stepped onto the ice in Toronto for Game 4 versus the Marlies, coming off of back-to-back 6-2 defeats in Games 2 and 3. The Rocket had to give this game everything they had, or would risk going home much earlier than expected after a regular-season division title. Pascal Vincent, clearly unhappy with the lineup’s effort over the last two games, scrambled things around all over the lineup. Alex Belzile was down ...
Wednesday Habs Headlines: A changing of the guard
Montreal Canadiens news and notes Ivan Demidov, Matthew Schaefer, Beckett Sennecke are the three finalists for the 2025‑26 Calder Memorial Trophy. [ NHL.com ] Previewing the second round matchup between the Habs and the Buffalo Sabres. [ Sportsnet | CBC | Daily Faceoff | The Athletic | Hockey I/O | La Presse ] Montreal vs. Buffalo is a series between two teams on their way to the top. [ La Presse ] Montreal’s big offensive weapons can get on track vs. the Sabres. [ Montre...
Rocket @ Marlies Game 4 & NHL Draft Lottery: Thread and how to watch
2026 Calder Cup Playoffs – North Division SFs Game 4: Laval Rocket @ Toronto Marlies TOR leads 2-1 Start time: 7:00 PM EDT / 4:00 PM PDT In Canada: RDS (French) Streaming: FloHockey, RDS For the first (and only) time in the AHL division semifinals, the Laval Rocket play a game that doesn’t overlap with one from the parent Montreal Canadiens. The Rocket had done well despite the divided attention of their fanbase to win the opening game 3-1, but have suffered back-to-b...
The Montreal Canadiens have nothing to apologize for
All over television, radio, podcasts, and social media the refrain was that the Montreal Canadiens were lucky in their 2-1 Game 7 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning. Everybody talks about the fact they had no shots in the second period or a total of nine over 60 minutes. Everybody talks about the lucky bounces on both of their goals. Nobody talks about the fact that they only allowed 29 shots, eight of which came in the third period when the Lightning were going all-out for an equalizer ove...
Reset, refocus, respond: Victoire locked in for Game 2
As the Montreal Victoire prepare for Game 2 of their best-of-five playoff series, the message inside the locker room is clear: reset, refocus, and respond. After dropping Game 1 in a high-scoring, emotional contest, players and coaches are leaning on both urgency and confidence. With little time to dwell, the focus has quickly shifted to what comes next. Learning from Game 1 — and moving on For veteran forward Laura Stacey, the takeaway isn’t about overhauling the game plan—it’s...
Tuesday Habs Headlines: What it Takes
Montreal Canadiens News and Notes The Habs believe they have what it takes to make a deep run. [ TSN ] Montreal’s series MVP was arguably behind the bench. [ Yahoo Sports | TVA Sports ] Kent Hughes’ finger prints are all over this series win. [ TVA Sports ] It was an away game, but the Bell Centre was still rocking. [ Twitter | Montreal Gazette ] Un Centre Bell à guichets fermés. Pour un match à l'étranger. A sold out Bell Centre. For an away game. #GoHabsGo pic....
Bottom Six Minutes: Jakub Dobeš steals a ticket to the second round
After six extremely tight, hard-fought games, the Montreal Canadiens saved their worst for last against the Tampa Bay Lightning. They struggled mightily to get shots on goal in game seven, unable to get through the wall of bodies the Lightning were putting in the shooting lanes, and often missing the net entirely when they did. The result was a paltry nine shots on goal for the Habs through 60 minutes. But they don’t ask how, they ask how many, and the answer you’re looking for in the playoffs...
A perfect storm of errors has the Laval Rocket on the brink of elimination
After a strong showing in Game 1 of the North Division Semifinals, the Laval Rocket have dropped back-to-back games while being outscored 12-4, and find themselves on the brink of elimination to the Toronto Marlies. For a team that bulldozed their way to the conference finals last year and collected consecutive North Division titles, this is not a spot they expected to find themselves in. On Sunday it was disaster right out of the gate as Lucas Condotta was handed a double-minor for high-...
Monday Habs Headlines: Brendan Gallagher on the young but experienced Canadiens
Montreal Canadiens news and notes “So young in age, but their ability to handle these things, it goes beyond how old they are,” Brendan Gallagher explains about the Canadiens’ experience of playing significant roles trumping their youth. [ The Athletic ] The Canadiens set the NHL record for the fewest shots on goal (9) in a playoff win. [ Journal de Montreal ] Samuel Montembeault and Jacob Fowler had a little fun at their goalie’s expense following a post-game interview. [ Jou...
Canadiens @ Lightning Top Six Minutes: Montreal recovers to claim the series
Montreal is 2-1 when this woman sings O, Canada, so I’m actually starting to like her a bit. First period Lane Hutson deals with an early shift from Nikita Kucherov’s line by stripping the puck and turning it the other way. Montreal’s first chance comes from the Kirby Dach line after two Lightning defenders went after Josh Anderson in the end wall. Darren Raddysh was standing in the crease trying to check Nick Suzuki at the side of the net, and a shot from Mike Matheson...
Canadiens @ Lightning Game 7: Thread, lines, and how to watch
2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs – Eastern Conference QFs Game 7: Montreal Canadiens (A3) @ Tampa Bay Lightning (A2) Series tied 3-3 Start time: **6:00 PM EDT / 3:00 PM PDT** In Canada: CBC, Sportsnet (English), TVA Sports (French) In the United States: TNT, truTV In the Lightning region: The Spot Streaming: Sportsnet+ Noah Dobson will be a game-time decision for today’s Game 7, having ramped up his on-ice work in recent days to the point he’s been taking shots. He won’t be ...
Minnesota strike first, defeat Victoire in OT
The Minnesota Frost wasted no time setting the tone, stealing home-ice advantage from the Montreal Victoire with a 5–4 overtime win in Game 1 on Saturday. Jincy Roese scored the winner 4:30 into overtime, firing a point shot that deflected off of goaltender Ann-Renée Desbiens and trickled across the goal line. Montreal’s Laura Stacey made history with the PWHL’s first playoff hat trick in a fast-paced, back-and-forth game that saw five goals scored in under eight minutes of game tim...
Canadiens @ Lightning Round 1 Game 7: Preview, start time, Tale of the Tape, and how to watch
2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs – Eastern Conference QFs Game 7: Montreal Canadiens (A3) @ Tampa Bay Lightning (A2) Series tied 3-3 Start time: **6:00 PM EDT / 3:00 PM PDT** In Canada: CBC, Sportsnet (English), TVA Sports (French) In the United States: TNT, truTV In the Lightning region: The Spot Streaming: Sportsnet+ The official stats say that the Tampa Bay Lightning had a 38-26 advantage in scoring chances at five-on-five and a 22-7 edge in high-danger chances in Game 6, but ...
Sunday Habs Headlines: Canadiens prepared for Game 7
Montreal Canadiens news and notes “Pretty much every game in this series feels like a Game 7,” Martin St-Louis said before heading to Tampa for the final contest of the series. [ La Presse ] Flights for both the Canadiens and Tampa Bay Lightning had to be diverted due to thunderstorms that led to tornado warnings in Tampa. [ Journal de Montreal ] In recent history, the Habs have performed well in Game 7s. [ Journal de Montreal ] The history of Game 7s in the NHL. [ La Pre...
PWHL Playoff Preview: Montreal Victoire vs. Minnesota Frost
#1 Montreal Victoire vs. #3 Minnesota Frost Game One (best-of-five) Place Bell , Start Time: 2:00 p.m. Eastern Streaming: Prime Video in English and French in Canada; YouTube outside of Canada) TV: Scripps Sports Network – US) There’s a certain feeling that creeps in before playoff hockey — a mix of excitement, nerves, and impatience. Around the Victoire locker room, that feeling has been building all week. Now, with Game 1 just hours away, it’s about settling in and being ready. “It...
Indiscipline costs Rocket in Game 2 as Marlies even up series
The Toronto Marlies took advantage of 10 power plays to score four power play goals and defeat the Laval Rocket 6-2 to even their best-of-five series at one game apiece. ”You can’t give up 10 power plays and expect to win the game,” Laval Rocket head coach Pascal Vincent said. The Rocket opened up a 2-0 lead with goals from Laurent Dauphin and Joshua Roy 1:24 apart, with Roy’s goal coming on the power play. They had an 11-3 advantage in shots at the time of Roy’s goal. It all un...
Saturday Habs Headlines: “Best game of the series”
Montreal Canadiens news and notes “I think both teams played their best game of the series,” Martin St-Louis said following the Game 6 loss. [ Journal de Montreal ] The loss is also an opportunity for a young team to play its first do-or-die Game 7, St-Louis believes, seeing the long-term benefits of a such a hard-fought series. [ RDS ] Game 7 will be played at 6 PM EDT in Tampa on Sunday: Sunday's Game 7 will be at 6pm ET This tremendous series deserves seven https://t...
Canadiens vs. Lightning Top Six Minutes: The series gets pushed to Game 7
First period Two early icings by the Lightning and they’re already diving trying to draw a call on the race to the puck. I expect that to be a theme of this game. A very nice cycling shift for the usual top line of Juraj Slafkovskš, Nick Suzuki, and Cole Caufield to create a scoring chance. Darren Raddysh wins up a slapshot that hits Jakub Dobeš in the mask, but it falls right into his pads where he can freeze it. Dobeš gives the puck away behind the net, but Yanni Gourde...
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