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According to Montreal Canadiens official website, Bob has signed a goaltender name Curtis Sanford for a one year, two way contract. No financial information was provided. Curtis Sanford previously played with Vancouver Canucks, and had 2.69 goal against percentage.More information visit Canadiens official website.For stats of Curtis Sanford please visit Hockey Data Base.

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Montreals' unrestricted free agent Tom Kostopoulos has signed a three year contract with Carolina Hurricanes. Kostapoulos has signed for a deal worth of $2.75 million. Canadiens General Manager Bob Gainey re-signed forward Guillaume Latendresse to a 1-year contract for 2009-2010 NHL seasons, as he announced on Wednesday, July 15. He is signed for $830000. The 22-year-old right-winger scored

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According to the official website of Montreal Canadiens, all the new players have been assigned/selected their jersey numbers. Below is the list of the numbers and the players:Jaroslav Spacek: Number 6, which was Tom Kostopoulos's former number while he played for Sabres, Blackhawks and the Canadiens of course.Travis Moen: number 32 which was his number with the Ducks.Hal Gill: Number 75Paul Mara

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According to source, Canadiens have signed Andreas Engqvist for a 3 year contract. Engqvist is a 196 pound and 6'3 centerman, who wasn't able to complete his last season due to a wrist injury and ended his season earning a total of 16 points.Engqvist played with Djurgardens IF of the Swedish Elite League for three years and now he is promoted to the big league (NHL). According to source, Engqvist

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Canadiens have promoted Kyle Chipchura to the big league for one year contract. Last season Chipchura played with Canadiens for 13 regular seasonal games. Kyle took 5 shots on the net and earned himself a five penalty minutes and 3 points during his time in NHL. The 23 years old forward helped team Canada leading them as Captain in 2006 World Junior Championship.Chipchura is a great player, with

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Here is a video that shows the Centennial Season of Habs (2008-2009) with their top 10 goals. Courtesy of yudothatthing.

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According to The Hockey News, two of the players Montreal sigend up are amongst the worst UFA selection of the year 2009. Mike Cammalleri a left winger who signed a five year contract for 30 million was number five on the list. Apparently, Cammalleri needs Jerome Iginla captain of Calgary in order to produce the magic he did last season.On the other hand Brian Gionta a 30 years old right winger

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We all knew Bob wanted to add one more defenseman to the team. Bob has signed Paul Mora from New York Rangers for a year contract and a three year contract for Travis Moen. Travis Moen is a big player, 215 pound and played for Anaheim Ducks and San Jose Sharks. Moen had 16 point season with 7 goals and blocking 78 shots. Travis Moen can be a big asset for the Habs, bringing some quality of Mike

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Defenseman Paul Mara of NY Rangers was signed with Montreal Canadiens, for a one year contract. The 29 years old defenseman has 10 years of NHL experience and last season he had 21 points and 5 goals with Rangers. Paul Mara brings big size (6’4 and 212 pounds) and lot talents to Montreal Canadiens. On the Draft Day, in 4th round Canadiens selected Alexander Avtsyn. Avtsyn is a 17 years old

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What is happening? Well, the answer is very simple, all the players are in the training camp and the team is struggling to make a decision who will be the next young player to be promoted to NHL as a defenseman. All this is very simple but what is truly happening? Well, Montreal acquired couple of new players and lost some great players. Montrealers were promised by Mr. Gainey that he would

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Saku koivu, one of the most adored player by the fans of Habs, has signed a contract with Anaheim Ducks. He signed a contract for a year for 3.25 million. He wasn't offered any contract by the GM of Habs, and it was about time he made a decision to sign up with a team. He waited long enough, hoping for a miracle and be back with Montreal.Saku will be playing with his countrymen Teemu Selanne and

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Saku Koivu, a 34-year-old former captain of the Montreal Canadiens, is unfortunately no longer the captain for the Habs and is listed among the list of free agents. It was this very captain who led the Habs in October with a +9 rating and notched two game-winning goals in March in the 2008-2009 season. Can Saku be replaced? Saku Koivu is one of the greatest players of the Montreal Canadiens. It

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The "artist" of the Habs, and the heartbeat of many fans, Alex Kovalev has signed a contract with the Ottawa Senatros. According to The Hockey News, he has signed a two year contract for 10 million dollars. Some other sources say that Brian Murry is expecting Kovalev to have a 30 goal season, despite his inconsistency. Well, all the effort done by the fans didn't bring much of a change. Kovalev

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According to Habs offcial site, Jacques Martin has hired two new staff member. He hired two staf member that he knows very well. According to sources, Pierre Groulx who will be the goaltending coach and Perry Pearns will be joining Kirk Muller. Pierre Groulx worked under Jacques Martin in Florida Panthers. At first, for the two years Mr. Groulx worked as video coach and later on was assigned as a

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According to RDS, despite the ultimate effort done by the fans, Bob has reported that Alex Kovalev will not be back. He also, mentioned on CJAD on Monday morning that he made an offer to Kovalev before fre agent day, but there was no response.Gainey also, mentioned by signing other players Habs bank is empty and there is not enough cash left to make Kovalev an offer, who used to make 4.5 million

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According to RDS, LA PRESSE CANADIENNE has reported that Alex Kovalev's fan are rallying up front of the bell centre this afternoon (july 5th), for one last effort to bring him back to Montreal. As we already know, Bob Gainey did make an offer to Alex Kovalev last week, although it is no longer available since team had hired other players.Since the offer was withdrawn, the fans have been

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As you may have already read, many fans are signing petitions in order to get Kovy back on the team. Well here is the link if you would like sign your name as well.http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/sauvons-kovalevAccording to many sources, Bob had made an offer to Kovy, but there was no response. Since Bob had to make some quick decision, he moved on and acquired other players. At this moment, I

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Here is a link to the official website of Montreal Canadiens, which displays all the players of Habs. The Montreal Canadiens still haven't announced the new Captain of the team, but hopefully they will inform us very soon. According an article from Montreal Gazette, there is petition going on in the internet in order to bring back Saku Koivu and Alex Kovalev. Many also, wants to Kovy to wear the

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Heres a videos of the new players that were acquired by Bob Gainey for Montreal Canadiens.

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According to an article posted by RDS, it states that Philippe Boucher a unresitricted free agent from the Stanley Cup winner Pittsburg Penguins, would like to play for Montreal Canadiens if he was signed by Bob Gainey. RDS also reports that Philippe Boucher hasn't receieved any offer from any of the 30 NHL teams. Here is the direct link to the source (French). Philippe Boucher is a local player

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Well, so far Montreal went through Draft day and made montrealers' very happy, on the selection of Louis LeBlanc. The habs went on by selecting a seven more players on the Draft day. The other seven selections are Joonas Nattinen at 65th pick, at 79th pick was Mac Bennett, 109th was Alexander Avtsyn, 139th was Gabriel Dumont, 169th was Dustin Walsh, 199th was Michael Cichy and finally at 211th

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Hey everyone I am Shakir, just a typical habs fan. I am living in Montreal, last couple of years and like everyone in the city I am a hardcore fan of les bleu-blanc-rouge. I will put latest news that is going on with Habs and update as regularly as possible. I welcome everyone to put comments and speak your mind. If there is something that you would like me to add or want to suggest you are more

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