BROSSARD, Qc – Les Canadiens de Montréal ont indiqué qu’ils effectueront une mise à jour de l’état de santé du gardien étoile Carey Price, vendredi. Price, qui est âgé de 34 ans, récupère toujours d’une blessure à un genou et n’a pas disputé une seule rencontre depuis le 7 juillet dernier, en…

A Canadian team already short on game reps ahead of the world junior men’s hockey championship in Edmonton must recalibrate yet again with the cancellation of one of its two pre-tournament games. Wednesday’s exhibition game against Russia is the only time Canada, limited to intrasquad games so far, will play against anyone other than…

Seven based in Canada make up one of four; intradivisional games only The 31 NHL teams will be realigned in four new divisions for this season, including one for the seven teams based in Canada. “Pretty neat you get to see those other teams a little bit more and have…

Kings top NHL again with nine prospects; country, NHL affiliation for all participants The Los Angeles Kings will have an NHL-best nine prospects playing in the 2021 IIHF World Junior Championship. It’s the second straight season the Kings will have the most prospects; they had nine at the 2020 WJC.…

If the NHL season is going to start on the targeted date of Jan. 13, players will need to start quarantining this weekend. What’s holding things up as time gets scarcer and scarcer? Dreger: Well, a lot of things but to simplify it, there are so many issues around roster size,…

Let’s begin this quickie blog with a caveat: it’s a long shot. But…at least four NHL teams are investigating the possibility of playing home games in outdoor stadia if it will allow them to have fans in attendance. Again, there are no guarantees in COVID times, “but it is being…

MONTREAL — We lived on a corner lot, in a semi-detached house on Normandy Drive — one of the widest and least travelled streets in the Town of Mount Royal, just a 15-minute car ride from the Montreal Forum. It was a street tailored for road hockey, with maple trees…