Montreal Canadiens Blog

A stellar third period performance by one Carey Price gave the Montreal Canadiens the 3-2 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins giving Carey Price a 3-0 record against the team. I can’t give this one all to Price as Andrei Kostitsyn recorded his first NHL hattrick his first game back from missing two games with [...]

Category: Post Game

[ December 27, 2008; 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm. ] December 27th @ 7:00pm EST
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Montreal Canadiens Projected Lineup

A. Kostitsyn
Plekanec
Kovalev

Tanguay
Lang
D’Agostini

Latendresse
Lapierre
Kotopoulos

Begin
Maxwell
S. Kostitsyn

Markov

Komisarek

Hamrlik

Gorges

Bouillon

Brisebois

Carey Price

Jaroslav Halak

Injuries: Mathieu Dandenault (Broken Arm), Chris Higgins (Injured Arm), Saku Koivu (Ankle/Foot), George Laraque (Groin/DTD)

Pittsburgh Penguins Projected Lineup

Dupuis
Crosby
Satan

Fedotenko
Malkin
Sykora

Cooke
Staal
Talbot

Wallace
Jeffrey
Godard

Orpek

Scuderi

Eaton

Whitney

Goligoski

Boucher

Marc-Andre Fleury

Dany Sabourin

Injuries: Tyler Kennedy, Hall Gill, [...]

Category: Game Day

Even the things that are of our control seem to be going our way this season. We needed the Flyers to beat the Penguins today to solidify top spot in the East, and that’s exactly what happened. The Pens kept Crosby out of the lineup to make sure that no injuries occurred, but [...]

Category: General

I haven’t done an update on the division clinch in a few days so I jsut thought that I would give you a quick update on that since we only have three games remaining.
As most of you are already aware, our only competition for the division is the Ottawa Senators, who are currently 6 [...]

Category: General

72 games into the NHL season, and the Montreal Canadiens are in the best position they’ve been in, in almost 16 years.  Let’s do a quick look as of March 15th, 2008.

Pos.
Team
GP
W
L
OTL
Pts

1
New Jersey Devils*
71
41
24
6
88

2
Ottawa Senators*
72
40
25
7
87

3
Carolina Hurricanes*
72
38
29
5
81

4
Pittsburgh Penguins
71
40
24
7
87

5
Montreal Canadiens
72
39
24
9
87

6
New York Rangers
70
37
24
9
83

7
Boston Bruins
71
36
27
8
80

8
Philadelphia Flyers
71
35
27
9
79

9
Washington Capitals
72
34
30
8
76

10
Buffalo Sabres
71
32
28
11
75

11
Florida Panthers
72
33
31
8
74

12
Toronto Maple Leafs
72
32
30
10
74

13
New York Islanders
72
32
33
7
71

14
Atlanta Thrashers
73
31
34
8
70

15
Tampa Bay Lightning
71
28
35
8
64

* Division leaders get [...]

Category: NHL