Rangers blow four separate leads in wasteful OT loss to Canadiens
MONTREAL — The Rangers can't afford to miss a winnable game. Sunday night's 5-4 overtime loss to the Canadiens at the Bell Center, a season-best eight-game winning streak, erased the damage from the Blueshirts' terrible period in late November and December. It's not enough, but it needs every point it can earn to start a […]
Canadiens rookie Emil Heineman struck by car, out up to a month
Montreal Canadiens rookie winger Emil Heinemann was hit by a car as a pedestrian in Utah on Monday night and will be sidelined for three to four weeks due to injuries sustained in the crash. The team announced that the 23-year-old Swede suffered an “upper body injury,” but his agent Marcus Isaksson said: He told […]
Punchless Islanders fall to lowly Canadiens in overtime
MONTREAL — So far, this season has been one step forward, two steps back for the Islanders. While the team's current goal of treading water until healthy is as modest as it is, getting back to NHL .500 will require racking up a few wins, something the Islanders have done time and time again. It's […]
Rangers crush Canadiens with scoring frenzy to push point streak to six
MONTREAL — The Rangers brought excitement to the NHL's Frozen Frenzy. All 32 teams may have been in the game on Tuesday night, but the Blueshirts beat the Canadiens 7-2 at the Bell Center with a performance that lived up to the league's nickname of the NFL's red zone version. The hubs were quickly overwhelmed. […]
Canadiens’ Cole Caufield to honor Johnny Gaudreau with No. 13 jersey
Canadian national team star Cole Caufield will remember his late friend Johnny Gaudreau every time he takes to the court this season. Caufield announced Tuesday that he would change his jersey number from 22 to 13 in honor of the former Blue Jackets star who was killed along with his brother, Matthew, by a suspected […]
5 NHL Draft winners and losers in 2024, starring the Canadiens, Ducks, and more
The 2024 NHL Draft is over, and it’s always one of the most difficult to interpret. With so many young players and multinational scouting, the majority of the players selected on Friday and Saturday won’t play on NHL ice for several years. So this is more of an effort to bolster the pipeline than to […]
Céline Dion wows 2024 NHL Draft by announcing Canadiens’ pick
Many NHL teams upped the ante on Friday night’s draft at The Sphere in Las Vegas. Still, the Canadiens made a splash by allowing five-time Grammy Award winner and Quebec native Celine Dion to announce their selection of Russian winger Ivan Demidov with the fifth overall pick in the first round. After several lengthy periods […]
New York Giants Unveil Alternate Uniforms That Are 100% Fugly And A Straight-Up Knockoff Of The Montreal Canadiens
What is this? … What the hell? ! In the 2024 season, the New York Giants are set to turn things around in a few games. Really throw it back. New York is trying to go back to their past, in fact, to the days when they first started building their franchise. And they did […]
Islanders beat Canadiens amid Noah Dobson’s injury
Two points were a top priority for the Islanders on Thursday, and they checked that box. Still, despite the celebratory mood after Kyle Palmieri’s overtime game-winning goal, Noah Dobson’s first-period loss meant the star defenseman was ejected just over five minutes into the game, resulting in a 3-2 overtime loss to Montreal. It casts a […]
Rangers ride power play to franchise record-tying win over Canadiens
Chris Kreider has owned real estate in front of every opponent’s net for quite some time. And the longest-tenured Ranger there once again turned the edge of the blue crease in front of the Canadiens goal into his personal office, scoring another key power-play goal in the third period (his third in the last three […]