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The Montreal Canadiens will start their march back to the playoffs on September 22 against the Pittsburgh Penguins, as the team announced their six-game pre-season schedule. Four of the six games will be at the Bell Centre, one will be in Quebec City, and there will be one trip to Toronto. The pre-season will start with back-to-back home games against the Penguins followed by a game…

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As has become tradition for Kent Hughes since taking over as the general manager of the Montreal Canadiens, he approaches the day of the draft’s opening round with two first-round selections in hand. He’s typically used this as a chance to make a trade with that draft capital to help improve either the current roster (acquisitions of Kirby Dach and Alex Newhook) or his spot in the order (moving up…

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Montreal held one final selection in the 2025 NHL Draft with their assigned seventh-round selection. With that voucher they added Bemidji State University-commit Maxon Vig, a defenceman who came up through the Minnesota high-school system. Vig played 62 games in the USHL with the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders, scoring 10 goals and adding 22 assists. He is a big player at 6’2″ and 212 pounds…

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German defenceman Carlos Händel played a couple of seasons in Sweden against better competition than he could have received in his home country before heading to the QMJHL in his draft season. After participating in the Hlinka Gretzky Cup in Edmonton, he headed to Halifax to play with the Mooseheads. Date of Birth: March 31, 2007 Birthplace: Erlangen, Germany Height: 6’1″ Weight: 176 lbs.

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It’s been clear for a few years that the biggest hole in the Montreal Canadiens’ lineup is at the second-line centre position. Kent Hughes attempted to solve the problem immediately upon being hired by trading for Kirby Dach at the 2022 NHL Draft, and while that was looking like the answer early into a four-year contract, last season saw Dach struggle at the position with one of the worst goal…

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Just a few hours after the Montreal Canadiens announced that Cayden Primeau had been extended a qualifying offer, the team traded those retained rights to the Carolina Hurricanes, acquiring a seventh-round selection in 2026 as compensation. It was a trade of a seventh-round pick, from the Philadelphia Flyers back in 2017, that initially allowed the Canadiens to draft Primeau into the…

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Alex Belzile is back as the Montreal Canadiens have signed the forward to a one-year, two-way contract. Belzile last played in the Montreal Canadiens organization during the 22-23 season when he played for both the Canadiens and the Laval Rocket, where he was captain. He comes from the Hartford Wolf Pack, where he has spent the last two seasons as an assistant captain…

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The Montreal Canadiens have signed forward Sean Farrell and defenceman Marc Del Gaizo to one-year, two-way contracts, the team announced on Wednesday. Farrell, 23, was the team’s fourth-round pick in 2020 and was qualified as a restricted free agent a few days ago. He had a great second half with the Laval Rocket to get another chance in the organization. He had 20 goals and 24 assists…

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The Montreal Canadiens have crossed another restricted free agent off their list, re-signing defenceman William Trudeau to a one-year, two-way contract on Thursday. Trudeau, 22, was the Canadiens fourth-round pick in 2021 (113th overall). He has yet to make his NHL debut. He had five goals and 14 assists in 68 regular season games last season and added three assists in eight playoff…

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Goaltenders took the ice at 10:00 AM and started with a basic warm-up. Nobody was tasked too greatly. Coaches then did a multiple-option drill with the goaltenders. It was a good drill to keep them, as each tandem had three coaches passing between them. I thought Arseni Radkov was the standout once again, followed by Alexis Cournoyer. Yevgeni Volokhin’s glove seemed to be inconsistent…

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After trading both of their first-rounders to the New York Islanders for Noah Dobson, the Montreal Canadiens sent a clear message: the rebuild is done. When I heard the news, I immediately knew two things would be true. First, that the Habs wouldn’t be done trading picks, and second, that they’d be taking some high-upside swings on day two. Check, and check. Carolina stepped up at…

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The Montreal Canadiens continued their off-season by signing one of their two remaining restricted free agents, signing goaltender Jakub Dobeš to a two-year, one-way contract on Sunday. The contract has a cap hit of $965,000. Dobeš made his NHL debut this past season, and certainly looks to have the driver’s seat to claim the backup role to Samuel Montembeault next season. The team also has…

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William Shoukri joined the podcast to evaluate the prospects from development camp. The two-part discussion started with the European prospects where we go through most of the prospects with some quotes from the media scrum that was offered by the team. We speak about Filip Eriksson’s hesitation with his shot, and if that is a lingering effect of his season with Växjö and then a little bit…

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