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Team Canada vs. Finland Olympic Hockey Score: Live Updates, Results

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: October 4, 2017

Today we find out what Team Canada is really made of. After blowing Austria out of the water in a 6-0 win Friday, Team Canada made more drastic changes to its lineup for today’s battle with Finland. A win here and Canada claims top spot in Group B and gets a free ride to the...

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Montreal Canadiens Lose Carey Price After Olympics Injury

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: October 4, 2017

Carey Price may have been golden for Team Canada at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, but the Montreal Canadiens are feeling the brunt of an injury Price suffered during the Games. He left Wednesday’s pregame skate after pulling up on a lower-body injury that he reportedly re-aggravated during the Olympics. The Canadiens expect him to...

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Montreal Completes Boston Sweep with 3-1 Win

• Mike Schultz

• Last Updated: October 4, 2017

The Montreal Canadiens gave the Boston Bruins an early exit in the 2014 NHL playoffs, but the Bruins opportunity to retaliate in one of hockey’s most heated rivalries went unanswered in the following regular season. Last night, the Habs completed the 4-0 sweep of the Bruins at the TD Garden, winning 3-1. Carey Price put...

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Price, Canadiens Deny Senators Game 7

• Mike Schultz

• Last Updated: October 4, 2017

The Montreal Canadiens will advance to the second round of the NHL Playoffs after defeating the Ottawa Senators 2-0 in game 6 of the first round. The Habs currently sit at +450 to win the Cup. Despite the outcome of the game, Ottawa outplayed Montreal in mostly every facet of the game, outshooting the Canadiens...

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Montreal Canadiens vs. Tampa Bay Lightning: Preview, Scores, Prediction

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: October 4, 2017

The Lightning owned the Canadiens in the regular season but can the well-rested Habs figure them out in this series? Both the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Montreal Canadiens hit some potholes on their road to the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. The Habs were nearly pushed to a seventh game after taking...

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Team Canada vs. Norway Olympic Hockey: Live Updates and Results

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: February 13, 2014

Well, Team Canada hockey fans, the wait is finally over. Canada opens the Sochi 2014 Winter Games as a big favorite against Norway. Canada is currently listed as a 4.5-goal favorite (-177) and that line may grow before the drop of the puck. Put simply, Canada is expected to blow Norway out of the water...

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Team Canada Sochi 2014: Carey Price is the Right Choice vs. Norway

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: February 12, 2014

In the end, the goaltending decision to start Carey Price in goal for the Canadian men’s hockey squad against Norway really shouldn’t have been all that difficult. Steve Yzerman and Mike Babcock told everybody that Price and Roberto Luongo would split the opening two games, so this isn’t a major surprise. However, it is the...

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Sochi 2014: Team Canada’s Carey Price Favored vs. Roberto Luongo

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: February 6, 2014

When the slumping Vancouver Canucks visit the Montreal Canadiens Thursday, it will be a showcase of Team Canada’s top two goaltenders, Carey Price and Roberto Luongo, ahead of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. If it weren’t for the news that Martin St. Louis is replacing Steven Stamkos on the Team Canada roster, this matchup between...

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NHL Team Canada Players Planned for Tight Lodgings at Sochi Winter Olympics

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: February 4, 2014

Just because Team Canada has a slew of millionaire superstars on its men’s hockey roster for the Sochi Olympics doesn’t mean they’ll get special treatment in Russia. Amid growing concerns about the facilities in Sochi, a photo of one of Team Canada’s rooms featuring three small beds surfaced on social media Tuesday morning. It may...

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NHL Saturday odds & picks: Carey Price keeps Habs afloat

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: October 25, 2013

The Montreal Canadiens head into Saturday’s matchup with the upstart San Jose Sharks at the Bell Centre sporting a 6-4 record. Without goaltender Carey Price, there’s a good chance they’d be hanging around with the Sabres and Panthers at the bottom of the Atlantic Division. Price sports a 2.13 goals against average and a .936...

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Team Canada Sochi 2014: Don’t give Luongo No. 1 job just yet

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: July 23, 2013

Team Canada Mike Babcock has more than enough talent to work with on the 2014 Winter Olympic hockey squad, but the club’s biggest decision will likely come down to which goaltender the team will ride throughout the tournament. This winter it will come down to Roberto Luongo, Carey Price, Corey Crawford, Mike Smith and Braden...

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Habs Coach Therrien Shields Blame from Goalie Carey Price

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: April 17, 2013

Carey Price may not have been at his best lately, but Montreal Canadiens coach Michel Therrien isn’t blaming his struggling goaltender. Therrien says there’s more than enough blame to go around in the Canadiens’ dressing room. Price has allowed nine goals in the last 33 shots he has faced, including six goals on 29 shots...

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Blueliners Are Leading Canadiens' Revival

• Dale Perth

• Last Updated: March 12, 2013

P.K. Subban started off the shortened season unsigned. Now he is tied for fourth place among NHL defencemen with 18 points in 20 games and a plus-4 rating. Meanwhile, the Canadiens are atop the Eastern Conference with 38 points in 26 games, and they appear to have firmly put the debacle of last season behind...

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NHL: Canadiens, Sabres Both Desperate For Victory

• Joe LaTengo

• Last Updated: February 17, 2012

The Buffalo Sabres just had the taste slapped out of their mouths Thursday night in Philadelphia as the Flyers demolished them 7-2. Now they have to take on a Montreal Canadiens team that thinks they can sniff the faintest whiff of playoff blood. Certainly the trials of this Habs team are well-documented. Cohesion and championships...

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NHL: Montreal Travels to Boston to Renew the Habs, Bruins Rivalry

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: October 27, 2011

Montreal plays Boston for the 712th and 713th times this week and it never gets old. Frank Doyle on the latest iteration of one of hockey’s most storied rivalries. There has always been that certain frisson between the Habs and the Bruins. A goalie v goalie fight is a rare event in the NHL but...

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NHL Preview: Montreal Canadiens

• Charlie Boccanegra

• Last Updated: October 4, 2011

Have the Habs done enough to improve in the offseason? Charlie Boccanegra reports. The Montreal Canadiens have now made the postseason four consecutive seasons but have never been a legitimate Cup contender. Don’t expect anything to change this upcoming season because this team has not done much to improve itself in the offseason. Montral will...