Do you remember the Bruins' Wheel of Excuses? How about the Youppi slapping the bear? Those wonderful things all came to us courtesy of a man known as Dr. Habs. Dr. Habs is also known as Marc Dumont, and we're very happy to say that Marc will be joining EOTP to bring ... read more...

The 2013 Montreal Canadiens were not favoured to do much of anything. Speculated to miss the playoffs by many pundits, or ju... read more...

Mario Tremblay isn’t expecting a call from Patrick Roy about a possible assistant-coaching job with the Colorado Avalanche. “I don’t think so,” Tremblay said with a big laugh on Friday, a day after Roy was named head coach and vice-president of hockey operations for the Avalanche. “I don’t think so.” Tremblay, as Montreal hockey fans wi... read more...

No Carey Price. No Brian Gionta. No Brandon Prust. No Lars Eller. No Ryan White. No hope? Your bruised and battered Montreal Canadiens face elimination Thursday night at the Bell Centre. To the undoubted delight of Gary Bettman, four big-market American teams – the Rangers, Islanders, Blackhawks and Kings – are still ver... read more...

Michel Therrien took over a last-place team in the Eastern Conference when he was hired to coach the Canadiens last summer and turned them into Northeast Division champions and a second-place finish in the conference, but it wasn’t enough to be one of the three finalists for the Jack Adams Award that goes “to the NHL coach adjudged to have contributed the m... read more...

The Montreal Canadiens were fairly healthy for most of the strike-shortened 48 game season. Despite lengthy absences from concussed players Raphael Diaz, Rene Bourque, and finally Alexei Emelin, the Habs managed for the most part to avoid any detrimental injuries that would cost them in the standings. Like every team, they took their knocks and got back into the lineup as qui... read more...

When the Cinderella season finally ended, your Montreal Canadiens shook the hands of the players who had just eliminated them. Then they stood at centre ice, waving their sticks at those who had stayed at the Bell Centre till the bitter end of a 6-1 loss. Watching, I couldn’t suppress a nagging, glass-half-empty thought: This acknowledgement of ... read more...

(File photo) It was a banged up Canadiens’ team that lost their first-round playoff series against the Ottawa Senators Thursday night. Max Pacioretty was among the injured, playing with a separated shoulder that he suffered in Game 1 of the best-of-seven series. But he wasn’t using that as an excuse. “We had tons of injuries durin... read more...

The Montreal Habs are adopting the saying “When it rains, it pours” and rightfully so for this hockey team and city. Things went from bad to worse in their series against the Ottawa Senators. Thursday was indeed a day that Carey Price and Habs Fans didn’t want that pouring rain to come down but alas it’s the story of Montreal’s season as it was announced that starting goal... read more...

I'm sure it's crushing for a captain of a playoff team to re-injure himself. It must be doubly crushing for Montreal Canadiens captain Brian Gionta, watching his team go down three games to one against the Ottawa Senators. Knowing that thanks to a surgery to repair a torn left bicep he won't be back until training camp, and then realizing that his team is on the cusp of el... read more...

Injuries have made a big dent in the Canadiens’ lineup, but coach Michel Therrien sounded a positive note after the team’s morning skate Thursday. The Canadiens are on the brink of elimination in their best-of-seven playoff series against the Ottawa Senators, who hold a 3-1 lead.  The teams square off in Game 5 Thursday at 7 p.m. (CBC, RDS, TSN Radio... read more...

Montreal Canadiens forward Brian Gionta will have surgery on his torn left biceps, knocking him out of the rest of the playoffs. The Canadiens announced Wednesday that Gionta undergo surgery on Friday. The Montreal captain sat out Games 2 and 4 of the team's first-round playoff series against the Ottawa Senators with what was called an upper body injury. Gionta was limit... read more...

The Montreal Canadiens find themselves in a rather weird position heading into game 46 of a strike-shortened season. Certainly in a regular 82 game schedule, Montreal would have ample time to figure out what has gone wrong over the past 5 games or so. The ebb and flow of a normal NHL season almost always includes hot and cold streaks but this season has been as much a sprint ... read more...

Tonight at 7:30 the Pittsburgh Penguins will begin the 5th and final game of their second round victory over the ... read more...

Friday, May 24 marks the 27th anniversary of the Canadiens’ 1986 Stanley Cup victory when they defeated the Calgary Flames 4-3 to win the final series in five games. Rookie goalie Patrick Roy, at age 20, became the youngest player ever to win the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP as the Habs won the 23rd Cup in franchise history. “A bonus,R... read more...

If the Blackhawks and Penguins mov... read more...

Canadiens goaltender Carey Price will miss the rest of first-round playoff series with the Ottawa Senators because of a lower-body injury. The team announced the decision Thursday before Game 5, with Montreal trailing 3-1 and facing possible elimination. Price has struggled during the series and appeared to hurt his groin late in regulation of Game 4. With Price out, Pet... read more...

Due to a lower-body injury, goalie Carey Price of the Montreal Canadiens is day-to-day and may miss Game 5 tomorrow night. Despite his recent struggles he is a much needed part to the team if they expect to bounce back and take the first-round series against the Ottawa Senators. The post Montreal Canadians Goalie Carey Price Day-To-Day appeared first on FFLockerRoom | NF... read more...

via NHL.com The Montreal Canadiens held an open Easter Sunday practice for fans and drew a surprising 17,000 fans.  The Canadiens started the show pulling a prank on rookie Nathan Beaulieu, who made his NHL debut Saturday night. Beaulieu was the first one to take the ice and the rest of the Canadiens stopped at the bench and left him to skate a lap around the ice by himsel... read more...

P.K. Subban’s stay at the World Hockey Championship in Sweden was a short one. Team Canada lost 3-2 in a shootout to Sweden in the quarterfinals Thursday, marking the fourth straight year Canada will return home without a medal after losing in the quarterfinal round. It was the only game Subban played for Team Canada, joining the squad late after the Canad... read more...