As the Montreal Canadiens reach the quarter point of their season, I think it’s safe to say that the much maligned Alexei Kovalev has given the Habs exactly what they expected when they signed him to a long term contract a little over two years ago.

Obviously, four games into a career is much too early to start anointing Price as the heir to the Canadiens great goaltending tradition. What happens in the future is unknown, but after four games, we can all see what made Bob Gainey buck the tradition

Bryan Smolinski has enjoyed a fifteen year career in the NHL. In the next couple of weeks he will become the 220th player to play in 1000 games. But the road hasn’t been a smooth one for Smolinski, who hasn’t been able to enjoy any stability or securit

Mike Komisarek has evolved from an eighteen year old prospect into one of the young leaders of the Montreal Canadiens. He has become everything that the Canadiens had hoped what he would be when he was drafted by the team in 2001. He has seen the Canad

And for some the Yann Denis story ends there. With no chance of making the Canadiens, and with the prospect of spending another year watching from the bench in Hamilton, many lesser people would have folded.

For me Chris Higgins represents the best of this new breed of youngsters that have slowly started to assert themselves as the foundation for the Canadiens future. And while his hockey skills are undeniable, it is the other intangibles that Higgins brin

And yet there was one story that seemed to fall through the cracks and for the most part went unnoticed by many in the media and on the team’s numerous fan boards. In many ways it was a fitting end to the career of Pierre Turgeon; a player who announce

With the success came increased pressure on Theodore, he was now the team’s poster boy, the unquestioned superstar of the Canadiens. He had assumed the mantle as the natural successor to the Canadiens great goalie lineage, the next one on a list of leg

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