Montreal Canadiens Rumors & News
Basta!
Habs Inside/Out Mike Boone | Montreal Gazette — It's a word I learned watching movies and listening to my Italian friends.It means "Enough!" – and the exclamation point is added because "Basta!" is usually shouted by someone who has about as much as he/she can take.The generally agreed-upon facts:In 2005, the Montreal Canadiens did not draft Anze Kopitar. They drafted Carey Price.In 2007, the Canadiens did not billet Price with an older and more mature player, like the Penguins did with Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin. They let the future of the franchise live on his own, in Old Montreal.This summer, the Canadiens traded Jaroslav Halak and ...
7 hours agoPrice, Price and more Price
Habs Inside/Out | Montreal Gazette — • Pat Hickey's take:"There was never any doubt that Price would sign and my only surprise was that Gauthier seemed unnecessarily generous, giving Price $2.5 million in the coming season and $3 million the following season. "It's a bargain if he can surpass the numbers he put up as a rookie. But it will be wasted money if he doesn't improve over his performance since February 2009. Since Price appeared in the 2009 All-Star game in Montreal, he has looked like anything but an all-star. His record in that period has been 20-32-10 which means that he has lost more than twice as ma...
10 hours agoPrice's agent hails Habs for smooth talks
Habs Inside/Out | Montreal Gazette — Gerry Johannson, Carey Price's agent since the goalie's first days in junior hockey, says he figured getting a contract signed with the Canadiens would take most of the summer.But he never doubted that a deal would get done before training camp, and he praises Habs GM Pierre Gauthier for the positive, professional way he approached the goalie's future in Montreal, today extended by two seasons with a $5.5-million contract signing.Stubbs column below on Johannson's take on getting his client's signature on the bottom line.
19 hours agoCarey Price becomes Habs' $5.5-million man
Montreal Gazette — If you're one of the Canadiens fans who lost sleep over whether goaltender Carey Price would be signed before training camp, you're clear to catch up on your sack time.
September 2, 2010Audio to come: Price signs for 2 years
Habs Inside/Out | Montreal Gazette — The Canadiens have signed goaltender Carey Price to a two-year contract.No word yet on the terms of the contract, which will take him to the end of the 2011-12 season. The figure being mentioned on Twitter is $5.25 million for the two seasons.More details to come. Price will be on a conference call at 4:45 this afternoon. We'll have audio of it upon its completion.
September 2, 2010Garçon! Dom Perignon all around, on us
Habs Inside/Out | Montreal Gazette — HIO interrupts its Carey Price vigil to bring you thrilling news of how freakin' great we are.Gazette marketing stats wizard David Klimek took time out from devouring stories about his beloved New England Patriots to forward some Google Analytics stats on Habs Inside/Out page views.The total for August was 1,319,627 – up from 1,084,556 in August, 2009. That's a 22 per cent bump.And add 85,801 mhabisinsideout.com hits from mobile devices. Because Boone pucked off for three glorious weeks of vacay last month, bonus money is a three-way split among Stubbs, Hickey and Mio.They've voted a 10 per ce...
September 2, 2010Latest twist in the Kovalchuk saga
Habs Inside/Out | Montreal Gazette — Larry Brooks of the New York Post has an exclusive.Brooks writes the NHL is willing to grandfather the Kovalchuk, Luongo and Hossa contracts if the NHLPA, in essence, re-opens the CBA.Too many initials for a late-night?There will be lots more on Thursday as the story works its way around and through the news cycle.In the meantime, check out Mitch Melnick's superb interview with Chris Chelios. Chelios says some very nice things about Red Fisher.• If Antti Niemi – 26-7-4 with seven shutouts in the regular season; 16-6 in the playoffs with two shutouts, a .910 save percentage, a 2.63 GAA and his ...
September 1, 2010A more positive take on "striking" Price
Habs Inside/Out | Montreal Gazette — Renaud Lavoie of RDS talked to The Franchise's agent last night and Tweeted: Getting closer but still work to do on the Carey Price contract talks. More talks to come this week. Both sides hope to have a deal soon.And this just in from the B.C. rodeo circuit. Hey, is all that riding going to stretch his five-hole?• Arpon Basu looks into the salary cap crystal ball and wonders how hard it will be to re-sign Josh Gorges• Bill Guerin's agent tells La Presse there have been no talks with the Canadiens• James Mirtle's updated free agent list – including you-know-who atop the RFAs• Michael Farber ...
September 1, 2010Price on strike?
Habs Inside/Out | Montreal Gazette — So says Canoe.ca.The "story" is based on a Tweet by CBC-Montreal sports reporter Michel Godbout:EXCLUSIVE: a very very reliable source close to Carey Price says the goalie wants 3 million per or he's going on strike. Habs listening?Hey, two "very"s to describe "reliable". Gotta be true, right?• In other news to raise your blood pressure, Gilles Courteau, president of the Q, is dissing the Canadiens for their insufficient attention to Quebec hockey.• And Chris Chelios makes it official ... for now
August 31, 2010Another birthday
Habs Inside/Out Mike Boone | Montreal Gazette — The great Jean Beliveau is 79 today.The equally great Van Morrison is 65.(Pretty good backup band in this clip.)
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- Preseason starts on Tuesday Bruins Blog | Boston Globe Although full training camp officially opens on Sept. 17 with fitness testing for veterans, the preseason unofficially starts at 10 a.m. on Tuesday at Ristuccia Arena with informal skates. The sessions are closed to the public. The only camp sessions...
- Fifty-seven players to compete at camp Bruins Blog | Boston Globe Thirty-two forwards, 19 defensemen, and six goalies will participate in rookie camp and main camp this month. It is undetermined how many rookies will advance to the big-boy sessions. Here is the roster: Forwards Jamie Arniel Patrice Bergeron Gregory Campbell...
- Friday grab bag: MSM v. Bloggers, defence, television Hockey Capital | Ottawa Citizen Since I took over this job a few years ago, I've put a lot of effort into trying to create more links between the paper and the web, and bloggers and the mainstream media. I quite enjoy some of the blogs produced by fans in Ottawa, and have had some great laughs on both The 6th Sens and Sens Underground podcasts over the past year or so. Last season, four bloggers joined our popular prediction panel, writing entertaining projections for each Senators game and cracking me up on a regular basis.Yet there still seems to be a disconnect on some levels between the MSM and interweb authors, so our S...
- Smith signs one-year contract Bruins Blog | Boston Globe The Bruins have signed veteran forward Wyatt Smith to a one-year contract. The Bruins were hunting for up-front depth after center Trent Whitfield suffered an injured Achilles tendon. Smith has appeared in 211 career NHL games for Phoenix, Nashville, the...
- Sens' prospects see opening Ottawa Citizen Two of Ottawa's top young defensive prospects, Jared Cowen and Patrick Wiercioch, were among the two dozen or so NHL players getting some pre-training camp skating in at the Bell Sensplex on Thursday.