Author: Elias Laradi

Report: Habs officially sign Kirby Dach to a four-year deal

On Wednesday morning Montreal Canadiens general manager Kent Hughes announced the team had come to terms on a four-year deal with Kirby Dach. The contract carries an annual average salary of 3.3625 million dollars a season. Dach was acquired at the NHL Draft from the Chicago Blackhawks for the 13th overall pick, which was acquired […]

Vegas Golden Knights sign Phil Kessel

On Wednesday night Vegas Golden Knights general manager Kelly McCrimmon announced the team had agreed to terms with the veteran forward Phil Kessel. The deal is a one-year contract that will pay him 1.5 million this upcoming season. Kessel is a two-time Stanley Cup champion in back-to-back years of 2015-16 and 2016-17 and has accumulated […]

Montreal Acquires Sean Monahan from the Calgary Flames

On Thursday evening, Montreal Canadiens general manager Kent Hughes announced the Montreal Canadiens had acquired Sean Monahan and a conditional 2025 first-round draft pick from the Calgary Flames for future considerations. The Flames earlier in the day had locked up coveted free agent Nazem Kadri to a seven-year deal worth 49 million dollars and needed […]

Montreal Canadiens acquire Mike Matheson from the Pittsburgh Penguins

On Saturday afternoon, the Montreal Canadiens general manager Kent Hughes announced the team had acquired the Montreal native Mike Matheson and a fourth-round pick in the 2023 NHL Draft for Jeff Petry and Ryan Poehling. Matheson is a 6 foot 2, 188-pound defenseman who is coming off a stellar year in the steel city, scoring […]

Habs sign Juraj Slafkovsky to entry level deal

On Wednesday, on the first day of NHL free agency, Montreal Canadiens general manager Kent Hughes, the Habs, and Slafkovsky have agreed to terms on a three-year deal. The Slovak played 38 games for TPS Turku in Finland last year and finished with five goals and five assists. He also represented Slovakia at the 2022 […]

A busy day for the Montreal Canadiens on day one of Development camp

After selecting Juraj Slafkovsky’s number one overall in the 2022 NHL Draft at the Bell Centre in Montreal, the Slovak hit the ice at the Bell Sports Complex in Brossard, Quebec, for the first day of the Montreal Canadiens development camp. The camp is held from the 10th to the 13th, and 40 players, including […]

Habs take Juraj Slafkovsky on a wild night in Montreal

The Montreal Canadiens opted for the big Slovak over the consensus number one pick. After many weeks of speculation of what Kent Hughes would do with the number one pick overall, he decided to draft Juraj Slafkovsky out of Slovakia in a move that shocked people and the fans in attendance at the Bell Centre. […]

Habs still undecided about the number one pick

With less than a week before the 2022 NHL Draft in Montreal and with the Canadiens holding the number one pick, a lot of decisions still need to be made. This past week something happened that is honestly a rare occurrence with Bob Mackenzie end of season NHL Draft rankings which now have Juraj Slafkovsky […]

Habs Trade Shea Weber to Vegas for Evgeni Dadonov

Thursday afternoon Kent Hughes announced that he and Vegas had reached a deal to trade the defenseman for the Russian forward. “First of all, I would like to thank Shea for all that he has done for and represented to the Montreal Canadiens”. That was Hughes’s opening statement to the Montreal media when he began […]

Habs sign Wideman to a 2-year contract extension

On Tuesday, Kent Hughes announced that the team and Chris Wideman have agreed to a new two-year deal. Financial terms were not disclosed, but the 32-year-old is coming off a season where he finished with 27 points ( four goals, 23 assists) in 64 games. Coming in at 5’10” and 180 lbs, the defenseman has […]