Michel Therrien is going to the All-Star Game! This was, of course, met with some mockery online, but your Montreal Canadiens are playing well despite the dump truck’s worth of injuries they’ve had to deal with. So the question we asked our contributors this week is: Is Michel Therrien actually doing a good job this […]

The KHL announced earlier this week, in the middle of its season, that it was switching to a 3-on-3 overtime format as of December 15. It’s kind of crazy to make such a dramatic rule change midway through the season, but also kind of refreshing to see if you’re accustomed to the glacial NHL. So, […]

Your Montreal Canadiens played what might have been their best game of the season on Thursday night as they beat Mike Cammallerri and the New Jersey Devils 5-2, but all the chatter after the game was about Carey Price beating on Kyle Palmieri, and this morning’s mini-podcast is no different.    

Inspired by the below Twitter exchange between our own CJ Casselman and CTV’s Brian Wilde, we ask our contributors if they think Marc Bergevin should take an “all in” approach to the Canadiens this season? Me too. This roster is as close as MTL has been. Now is THE chance. Must get 2C tho. Must […]

Bob McKenzie has often said that you can’t judge a team until the 20-game mark, but once you get there you have a pretty good idea of just what kind of team you’re dealing with. With just over a quarter of the season in the bag the Canadiens are 16-5-2, but what exactly are they? […]

GAMEDAY NEWS ‘N’ NOTES: West coast swing! This means at least two nights of having to stay up way past our bedtimes. Tonight, it’s Anaheim. – No lineup changes tonight for the Habs. That means no Zach Redmond, and also Chris Terry is a healthy scratch. – Habs are facing a team that’s unquestionably got […]

Hey, it’s American Thanksgiving. Which for Canadians, means little except for Thursday afternoons filled with unwatchable American football. But let’s not be cynical. In tribute to our friends south of the border, and given the celebration, we present this oldie but goodie: Anyway, turkey killings aside, we do have hockey to watch, and tonight the […]

GAMEDAY NEWS ‘N’ NOTES We have little bits and sorts of news and facts and stats and whatever else required to prep for tonight’s game. Attention class, they are as follows: – Charles Hudon. SCRATCHED. Sigh. Daniel Carr will get a start tonight. Ah well, it was nice while it lasted. – Bobby Ryan. SCRATCHED […]

GAMEDAY GAME PREVIEW: So with all of this election drama, are you gonna be watching the game tonight? I’ll be the first to admit I’ll be doing some channel flipping, but fear not, we’ll be blogging the game! So here are the lines tonight: Marchand/Bergeron/Pastrnak Spooner/Krejci/Backes Beleskey/Nash/Czarnik Schaller/Moore/Acciari Chara/Carlo Krug/McQuaid Liles/Miller Tuukka Rask … we […]

HABS GAME PREVIEW: DON’T LOOK NOW, BUT THE KINGS ARE GETTING GOOD Uh-oh. After a relatively slow start to the season, where they won just 4 of their first 10 games, the L.A. Kings are good again, and just in time to face a team whom they’ve pretty much owned the past 6 seasons. The […]

GAMEDAY GAME PREVIEW: Alright, let’s get the lineups out first, because there’s some important stuff to note: First, Detroit: – Larkin/Zetterberg/Nyguist – Sheahan/Helm/Abdelkader – Tatar/Nielsen/Mantha – Bertuzzi/Glendening/Ott DeKeyser/Green Kronwall/Smith Marchenko/Ericsson Jimmy Howard Key here for the Wings are the returns of Anthony Mantha to Detroit’s red line in place of the recently injured Andreas Athanasiou. […]

GAMEDAY GAME PREVIEW: Jaromir Jagr is in the building!! Everything is wonderful again!! Let’s put up some stats comparisons to give you an idea that the Habs are going to be facing a pretty decent opponent tonight: CF% (5v5): Montreal 48.8 (22nd) Florida 53.0 (5th) SF60: Montreal 29.2 (14th) Florida 29.9 (11th) SA60: Montreal 32.7 […]

We’re back! We don’t know about you, but we’re struggling with cheering for Brad Marchand as he played the hero for Team Canada in the  World Cup. He’s had our full support, as does pretty much anyone when playing for Team Canada, but we don’t love it. Still, it got us thinking, if we’re giving Marchand […]

Our wide variety of contributors don’t always agree on things. That’s to be expected from a website that’s for the fans, by the fans. Well now our contributors have a place to argue their differing opinions in our ‘1-on-1 Battles’ series. Today’s topic: Will the Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup this season, or does […]

We’re finally through the preseason and it is Habs Hockey Eve! However, with the preseason came over-hyped and over debated story lines that will be nearly irrelevant as soon as the regular season begins on Thursday. This week we ask our panel, what do you think was the most over-hyped discussion of the Habs preseason? […]

When Patrick Roy suddenly quit his job as head coach and vice president of hockey operations of the Colorado Avalanche we knew it was time to fire up another summertime edition of The Forum to find out if our contributors think the Montreal Canadiens should consider hiring the legendary netminder and one time Jack Adams […]

When news broke last Wednesday that our Montreal Canadiens had traded PK Subban to the Nashville Predators for Shea Weber, the Rabid Habs crew, like every other Habs fan and non-Habs fan, quickly reacted. These reactions were immediately shot around in a series of e-mails between our contributors. So this week we decided to peel […]

The Pittsburgh Penguins are the  Stanley Cup champions. In a copy cat league like the NHL, we can now expect several teams to adopt the Penguins’ high-flying style in hopes of bringing home a Cup of their own. But what about the goalies? The names Martin Jones and Matt Murray – as solid as they […]

It’s over. And while Habs management claims no stone will be left unturned in looking to see what happened this season, apparently one option that will not be explored is the firing of any coach, at any level (except for Craig Ramsay). So today we ask our esteemed panel what they make of the Canadiens’ end of […]

The Montreal Canadiens fate is essentially sealed at this point. They’ll finish bottom 10, but not quite bottom 5 and the summer will feel long. But there’s still months of hockey to be watched, so this week we ask our panel what storylines/teams/players they will be paying attention to the rest of the way.  Kyle (@kyleroussel) […]