NHL Rumors: Blue Jackets, Maple Leafs, Oilers, Canadiens
In today’s NHL rumors rundown, the Columbus Blue Jackets were working on a trade and trying to land Martin Necas. Necas said no. Meanwhile, the Toronto Maple Leafs tried to…
Category Archives: Montreal Canadiens
Canadiens Make Room for Hutson & Mailloux With Kovacevic Trade
The Montreal Canadiens have dealt defenceman Johnathan Kovacevic to the New Jersey Devils in exchange for a fourth-round pick in the 2026 NHL Draft. Kovacevic had spent the last two…
Canadiens Need to Find Assistant Coach to Fix Power Play
The Montreal Canadiens just finished another successful draft, this time drafting a player everyone, including the management team, hoped for. With their fifth overall pick, the Canadiens drafted Ivan Demidov,…
Canadiens’ Kent Hughes Tried to Sign Impact Players but Was Denied
I wrote earlier this month that Montreal Canadiens general manager Kent Hughes would take an aggressive approach to free agency and that’s exactly what happened. Unfortunately for him, however, the…
Canadiens Sign Juraj Slafkovsky to an 8-Year Contract Extension
General manager (GM) Kent Hughes might not have captured the big game he wanted as the free agency market opened yesterday, but he did extend the Montreal Canadiens’ first-overall pick…
Canadiens Take Right Minimalistic Approach to Free Agency in 2024
Montreal Canadiens general manager Kent Hughes will have done the right thing this free agency, if he ends up doing nothing at all.
Canadiens to Hold Development Camp July 2-5
The Montreal Canadiens announced this morning that the team’s development camp would be held in Brossard from July 2-5. The public can always check out the team’s prospects and invited…
Canadiens Enter Next Stage of Rebuild
The Montreal Canadiens have had general manager (GM) Kent Hughes at the helm of this rebuilding plan for just over two years. In that time he has worked at accumulating…
Canadiens Create Contract Space; What Will Kent Hughes Do with It?
It was D-Day today for NHL general managers, they had to decide which pending restricted free agents (RFA) they wanted to keep by issuing them a qualifying offer (QO) and…
Canadiens Technically Make Free Agent Room by Not Qualifying Ylonen
By not qualifying Jesse Ylonen, Montreal Canadiens GM Kent Hughes opened up a roster spot. It shouldn't impact his free-agency plans, though.