Montreal Canadiens News

It's a full night of action on Thursday, with 10 games on an NHL schedule that kicks off with an Original Six matchup.

In the third period of Saturday night's 3-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning, Canadiens coach Jacques Martin benched his third and fourth lines.

The agent of Montreal Canadiens goalie Jaroslav Halak found himself in hot water over comments he made on Twitter on Saturday night.

Ryan Malone and Alex Tanguay each had a goal and an assist to lead the Tampa Bay Lightning to a 3-1 win over the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night.

He is the latest new face among many to turn up in the Montreal Canadiens dressing room this season, and none was more surprised to be there on Saturday than defenceman Jay Leach.

In Thursday night's shootout win against the Boston Bruins, we saw the very best of what Carey Price is capable of doing.

Patrice Bergeron's goal with 52 seconds left in regulation helped the Bruins avoid a historic third straight shutout, but Michael Cammalleri scored in the shootout to give the Montreal Canadiens a 2-1 victory over Boston on Thursday night.

Hedman feels OK after Neil hit Chris Neil #25 of the Ottawa Senators throws a crushing bodycheck on Victor Hedman #77 of the Tampa Bay Lightning as he skates around the back of the net during a game at Scotiabank Place on November 5, 2009 in Ottawa, Canada.

The Devils lost defenseman Jay Leach on waivers to the Montreal Canadiens. Montreal Canadiens general manager Bob Gainey announced Friday that defenseman Jay Leach was claimed off re-entry waivers from the Devils.

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the greatest about-face in the history of professional sports.

For the Boston Bruins, a shootout loss was an improvement over a shutout loss. Patrice Bergeron's goal with 52 seconds left in regulation helped the Bruins avoid a historic third straight shutout, but Michael Cammalleri scored in the shootout to give the Montreal Canadiens a 2-1 victory over Boston on Thursday night.

Montreal Canadiens coach Jacques Martin had a simple message for his players ahead of Thursday night's game against the Boston Bruins.

THE CANADIAN PRESS Luc Robitaille has a conspiracy theory about one of the few bad memories he was left with after a Hall of Fame career.

As the top seed in the Eastern Conference, the Boston Bruins quickly escorted the Montreal Canadiens out of the playoffs last spring, but the banged-up Bruins look like a different team in the midst of a major offensive drought.

The first month of this 2009-2010 NHL season is already behind us and I thought it would be a good time to check out how the Montreal Canadiens initiated their season.

The Montreal Canadiens will aim for their sixth win in eight games when they welcome the Atlanta Thrashers for this evening's clash at Bell Centre.

Ron Wilson thinks the NHL 's general managers need to take another crack at legislating head shots at their annual meetings early in the new year.

No one has ever doubted the talent of Andrei Kostitsyn, but coach Jacques Martin says it will take more than that for the enigmatic Montreal Canadiens winger to get off the fourth line and back in a scoring role.

"Hell has just frozen over... the Leafs have scored first." Jim Hughson said it best as the Leafs ended their 11 game streak of surrendering the first goal of the game.

David Shoalts Leafs can't buy a break Montreal Canadiens goalie Jaroslav Halak stops a shot against Toronto Maple Leafs Francois Beauchemin , who is covered by Montreal Canadiens Roman Hamrlik , during NHL overtime hockey action in Montreal October 31, 2009.