The busy day for the Habs continued on Tuesday as they announced the re-signing of C Tomas Plekanec to a reported 6 year, $30 M deal.

Mathieu Darche was re-signed to a 1-year, 550,000$ extension on Tuesday.

The Montreal Canadiens goaltending dilemma has appeared to come to a close as on Thursday afternoon, the Habs dealt G Jaroslav Halak to St. Louis in exchange for F Lars Eller and RW Ian Schultz.

On Wednesday, the Habs announced the signing of American born defenceman Kyle Klubertanz to a 1 year entry level contract reportedly worth $550,000 at the NHL level.

On Tuesday, it was announced that Canadiens prospect Mikael Johansson has signed a 3 year extension with Swedish team Farjestad, effectively ending his time in the Canadiens organization.

Today is the one time of the year you can put Alex Frolov and the Habs in the same sentence without discussing the trade rumours that never seemed to go away.

The Habs decided to get a jump on trade deadline day on Tuesday night, making their 4th trade of the season.

NHL’s General Managers have until 3pm today, Wednesday, March 3rd to complete trades. Although we have seen a sharp decline in trades in recent years, “Deadline day” has always remained a very busy day.

It didn’t take very long for Pierre Gauthier to make some noise as the new GM of the Habs.

On Monday, the Habs announced that GM Bob Gainey is stepping down effective immediately as General Manager of the Montreal Canadiens.