http://habsprospects.hockeyhq.net/

Moncton Wildcats 3 Cape Breton Screaming Eagles 2 (Final)

Morgan Ellis - one assist

Drummondville Voltigeurs 3 Gatineau Olympiques 6 (Final)

Archambault - one goal (3), one assist

Blainville-Boisbriand Armada 4 Shawinigan Cataractes 3 (Final SO) (SO: 3-2)

Bournival - one goal (10); also scored in the shootout.

Bentley University 1 University of Michigan 5 (Final)

Mac Bennett - one assist

Greg Pateryn - one goal

Air Force 3 University of North Dakota 4 (Final)

Danny Kristo - two assists

Mark MacMillan - one assist - First NCAA career point

   https://syracusecrunch.com/news/2021/3/26/syracuse-crunch-crunch-top-amerks-4-3-in-overtime.aspx

Also, Alex Galchenyuk had a good game with Toronto, and it seems PK Suban has had a better season this year.

So, I thought it may be nice to have a place to post news on past Habs players and prospects for those times when we are a bit nostalgic

The NHL is on track to award its 33rd franchise to Texas as soon as the end of the year, deputy commissioner Bill Daly told The Athletic.
 

Friedkin’s Pursuit Sports has already agreed to pay a $2 billion expansion fee to bring a team to either Houston or Austin, pending the ability to build an arena in one of those markets and secure final approval from the NHL’s Board of Governors.
 

“They’re projecting the ability to start play in 2029-30,” Daly said. “So we will have one down and potentially one to go. We have ongoing discussions both with people in the Phoenix marketplace, but also Atlanta, and then we’ll see what comes of those discussions.”

It seems that the owner of the 33rd team is established (Friedkin’s Pursuit Sports) and they are pursuing whether to build an arena in Houston or Austin ... Houston is the biggest TV market without an NHL team, and where the ownership group is based, so I'll guess Austin is a "false flag" to help get approvals for something in Houston ... starting in 2029-30 would give the Habs a couple of seasons to sort out tDobeš versus Fowler for the expansion draft in summer 2029.

I can't say I am surprised Phoenix is back in discussions, Atlanta is the second largest TV market missing from the NHL (barely behind Houston), but Phoenix is third ... both markets failed previously but both ownership and arenas were major issues.

Any new threads started based on rumor will be merged with this one.

Thank you for your respect... We do our best to hear constructive criticism and distinguish it from groussing, which can also be valuable.

There has been a lot of criticism of the mod team's decision to consolidate the rumour thread. I thought it might help to hear why we decided to do this (at least why I think it was a good idea).

1) There was tons of rumour repeats.

If Code or Eklund reported a Habs-related rumour, we'd often get 3 or 4 reports on the site. This meant that mods had to spend a lot of time cleaning up a lot of threads for rumours which had little probative value.

Whenever a trade, or other major habs-related event occurs, the mod team has to clean up a bunch of repeat threads (e.g. everybody wants to be the first to report the habs signed player X). We sign up to do this sort of clean up and are happy (ok... willing) to do it to keep the board running smoothly. It is harder to summon that same desire to clean up for threads that are much less important to the Canadiens.

2) Rumour threads, by their very nature, greatly overlap.

Rumour 1: Souray is going to be traded to San Jose for a draft pick

Rumour 2: Rivet is going to be traded to San Jose for a draft pick

Rumour 3: Souray is going to be traded to the Ducks for Selanne

(made all these up, obviously)

Now how do I clean this up? Do these all deserve their own thread?

Should I make a thread: "Souray being shopped", "Bob looking to get San Jose's picks", or "Habs going after Selanne"... these rumours could be sliced up a bunch of ways and each is somewhat meaningless without reference to the others.

3) Rumour threads should not be compared to Lounge threads

The Lounge is for things unrelated to hockey... at the very least matters unrelated to North American Hockey. It is thus a relegation for threads unrelated to the thrust of the site.

As a mod, I am generally much more wary of policing the Lounge. I am much more lax in applying most of the requirements of the site. I basically do 2 things when monitoring the Lounge:

1) Make sure theres no hate, flame, spam, or a ridiculous amount of profanity

2) Move hockey-related posts to the other forums (rarely have to do this)

I only merge threads in the lounge when there is an exact repeat of a previous (and recent) post. It should be noted that even in the lounge we have often had "mega threads"... for baseball, soccer, Olympics, NFL, nothing....

Maybe this helps a bit... or at least gives a window into my flawed reasoning...

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is the only way to get NHL centre ice through a cable provider? If I get it through Telus, can I still access games via steaming when travelling, both within and outside of Canada?

Pretty clearly a Laval Rocket signing

https://www.habsworld.net/2026/07/habs-trade-sean-farrell-to-ducks/

https://www.habsworld.net/2026/07/habs-re-sign-jared-davidson-and-hunter-mckown/

https://hctorpedo.ru/news/club/tekhnicheskoe-rastorzhenie-kontrakta-s-bogdanom-konyushkovym/

WAYYYYY TOOOOO MUCH

Vancouver traded Nils Hoglander about an hour ago so that was evidently the precursor to this.

So they don't clear the full cap hit, just $3.25M.

https://www.habsworld.net/2026/07/habs-sign-samuel-poulin-and-ethan-samson/

Back to Laval he goes.