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Michael Ryder gave his coach his first NHL victory by listening to his teammates. Ryder scored in a shootout to give the Montreal Canadiens a 3-2 comeback victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday night. Sheldon Souray and Mike Johnson scored in regulation for the Canadiens, who lost their season-opener in a shootout at Buffalo on Friday night by squandering a two-goal lead with 8 minutes...

Suspense, stunning goals and a shootout: Daniel Briere and the Buffalo Sabres certainly knew how to put on an entertaining show in their home opener. After spending much of the first 59 minutes trailing the Montreal Canadiens, the resilient Sabres scored twice in the final five minutes and then completed the comeback with a 5-4 shootout victory on Friday.

Maxim Afinogenov forced overtime with 15 seconds left in regulation and then scored in a shootout, rallying the Buffalo Sabres to a 5-4 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Friday night. Buffalo's Thomas Vanek had two assists and also scored in the shootout, while the Canadiens failed on their two shootout attempts -- the last when Alex Kovalev had goaltender Ryan Miller down, but snapped his...

MONTREAL (Ticker) - SportsTicker recently obstructed Montreal Canadiens defenseman Mathieu Dandenault and held him long enough to ask the following questions:

Alex Kovalev scored his second goal of the third period with 1:52 remaining to give the Montreal Canadiens a 6-5 win over the Ottawa Senators on Saturday night in the final preseason game for both teams. Inserted between Kovalev and Sergei Samsonov in the wake of center Mike Ribeiro's trade to Dallas prior to the game, Tomas Plekanec set up the tying goal by Samsonov with 4:44 remaining in...

MONTREAL (Ticker) - The Montreal Canadiens added a former All-Star to their blue line Saturday, acquiring defenseman Janne Niinimaa from the Dallas Stars for center Mike Ribeiro.

The Montreal Canadiens acquired defenseman Janne Niinimaa from Dallas on Saturday in a trade that sent center Mike Ribeiro to the Stars. Niinimaa shores up a Canadiens defense that has lost Francis Bouillon and Jean-Philippe Cote to injury. The 31-year-old Finn has 54 goals and 262 assists in 700 career regular-season games with Philadelphia, Edmonton, the New York Islanders and Dallas.

Andrej Meszaros scored twice and Daniel Alfredsson had three assists, leading the Ottawa Senators to a 5-2 exhibition victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday night. Meszaros scored both goals on shots from the point, beating David Aebischer with 1:13 left in the first and putting another long drive past the goalie on a power play 5:43 into the second to make it 4-1.

MONTREAL (Ticker) - Six days before the start of the regular season, the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday claimed defenseman Patrick Traverse on waivers from the San Jose Sharks.

Alexander Perezhogin scored 2:13 into overtime, lifting the Montreal Canadiens to a 4-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning in a preseason game on Tuesday night. With a delayed penalty signaled against Tampa Bay, Perezhogin deflected Mike Komisarek's point shot past goalie Johan Holmqvist to give Montreal its second win in two nights after four straight losses.

Chris Higgins and Guillaume Latendresse each scored twice Monday night in the Canadiens' 7-3 pounding of the Ottawa Senators that gave Montreal its first preseason win in five games. Andrei Kostitsyn, Jonathan Ferland and Kyle Chipchura also scored for Montreal (1-4-0). Jason Spezza scored twice and Dany Heatley once for Ottawa (3-3-0).

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Aleksander Suglobov had a goal and two assists, including one on Matt Stajan's go-ahead goal 13:53 into the third, to lead the Toronto Maple Leafs to a 4-3 exhibition victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night. Suglobov, who also scored in Toronto's 5-1 home win over Montreal on Friday night, opened the scoring with a sharp-angled shot past Carey Price early in the second.

Former University of Minnesota star John Pohl scored a goal to help the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Montreal Canadiens 5-1 on Friday night. Darcy Tucker, Mats Sundin, Aleksander Suglobov and Alexei Ponikarovsky also scored for Toronto, 2-1 in preseason play. Jean-Sebastien Aubin was sharp in stopping 22 shots.

Former Montreal Canadiens star Serge Savard was fined nearly $1,100 and had his driver's license suspended for one year Thursday, two years after he hit two cars while driving impaired. Savard, who played 14 seasons for the Canadiens in the 1960s and 1970s before eventually becoming general manager, was arrested in September 2004.

Zdeno Chara scored his second goal in two nights midway through the first period before leaving because of a left foot injury in the Boston Bruins' 3-1 preseason win over the Montreal Canadiens on Wednesday night. Chara, who left Ottawa as a free agent to sign a five-year, $37.5 million deal with Boston, was hurt when he blocked Sheldon Souray's slap shot during Montreal's 5-on-3 power play early...

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Rookie Phil Kessel assisted on two of Boston's three power-play goals in the first period and Zdeno Chara had a goal and an assist in the Bruins' 5-2 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday night in a preseason game. Marco Sturm had two goals and an assist, opening the scoring on a two-man advantage midway through the first, and Mark Mowers and newcomer Paul Mara added power-play goals for...

Former Montreal Canadiens player Floyd Curry, a four-time Stanley Cup champion, has died. He was 81. Curry died Saturday in a Montreal hospital, according to the Canadiens He spent 11 seasons with the Canadiens and scored 105 goals and 204 points in 601 NHL games. His most memorable moment came when he recorded the only hat trick of his career on Oct.

Canadiens captain Saku Koivu hopes to put off surgery on a small cataract in his left eye until after the season. Koivu, who had surgery to repair a detached retina this summer, said Thursday he is optimistic he will be ready to play this season despite lingering issues from an eye injury he received during the playoffs in April.