In last night’s highly anticipated matchup between the Montreal Canadiens and the Boston Bruins things took an ugly turn when Boston’s monstrous defenceman Zdeno Chara drove Canadiens forward Max Pacioretty’s head into the turn-buckle between the two teams’ benches.  Pacioretty was immediately knocked unconscious and lay face first on the ice for mutiple minutes without any movement.  It was a dirty hit with ambiguous intentions and Chara should be punished by the league.  It will be intersting to see how they deal with this.  As of now the word on Pacioretty is that he was awake and responsive on the way to the hospital and had full movement in all his extremities.  We wish him a speedy and healthy recovery.   continue reading...

If there was ever any doubt that hockey players are the toughest athlete’s in all of professional sport, Travis Moen just confirmed it.  After taking a skate blade to the forehead in a game earlier this week the Montreal Canadiens forward received 50 stitches to hes forehead and face and then only missed one game.  He’s back in the lineup tonight for a game against the Florida Panthers.   Here’s video of the incident: continue reading...

At the Montreal Canadiens fan practice the players all took part in a Skills Contest and 3rd line grinder Glen Metropolit stole the show with his 4 for 4 slap shot accuracy shooting.  Mike Cammalleri goes first, but be sure to watch Metro, its awesome: continue reading...

Drafted by the Montréal Canadiens in the 2nd round of the 2003 NHL Entry Draft, Maxim Lapierre has since been making a name for himself on one of the NHL’s most storied teams. His breakthrough 2008-2009 season saw him win the Jacques Beauchamp Molson Trophy, an award given by the Sports Writers Association of Montreal to the team’s unsung hero. After recently undergoing surgery to correct an ankle injury that had nagged him the majority of the 08/09 season, Lapierre says he is eager to get back to training. In this video, WatchMojo.com asks Mad Max about the pressures of playing in Montreal, and what he’s doing in the off-season. continue reading...

Wow, this is unexpected… Of all the people mentioned as potential candidates for the Habs’ new coach I don’t think I heard Jacques Martin’s name once?  In any case, he is an accomplished coach with actual NHL coaching experience, so its encouraging.  Read more from TSN.ca:

The Montreal Canadiens will hold a news conference this afternoon at 2pm et when the club will introduce Jacques Martin as their new head coach. continue reading...