Canadiens

MONTREAL — The chants started before Saturday’s game even got underway, and they only grew louder as it went on. “We want Larkin,” fans at the Bell Centre screamed, appealing to the Michigan native to consider a move to Montreal. The…

When the highlight of the evening is the pregame ceremony, there’s a problem. The Canadiens launched their home regular-season schedule Tuesday night at the Bell Centre with a simple, yet eloquent, celebration —…

BROSSARD, Que. — Halfway through Monday’s spirited Montreal Canadiens practice, Florian Xhekaj took repetitions on a line with Jake Evans and Josh Anderson. It’s a line on which you’d bet all your money to stay intact for Tuesday’s…

The annual Montreal Sports Celebrity Evening wasn’t planned to be a goodbye party for the Canadiens’ Brendan Gallagher, but that’s what it ended up being Sunday night at the Cummings Centre. Last fall, Gallagher agreed to be part…

It was the season opener for each team.  “We focused on a lot of things in camp, paying attention to detail,” Anderson said. “Obviously, we had a little bit of a slow start (tonight), but we got some momentum on our hands and started to…

Another season and another year in which it appears Owen Beck will be close to making the Canadiens, but will have to start the season with AHL Laval. Beck, 22, had been practising with the Canadiens as of Wednesday. And while he…

On Friday morning, we once again saw a new iteration of the Montreal Canadiens trading groups. Florian Xhekaj, David Reinbacher, and Adam Engstrom were back in Group A, but Owen Beck remained in Group B. It was hard to tell what the…

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American businessman George Gillett Jr., who purchased the Canadiens in 2001 at a time when nobody else seemed to want the team, has died at age 87. The Canadiens announced Wednesday afternoon that Gillett died on Tuesday. The…

It turns out Habs fans don’t need to worry about the team’s American players following Brady Tkachuk’s lead and fleeing south to their homeland. At least that’s what Canadiens head coach Martin St. Louis suggested Sunday evening on…