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Hockey coach out of Olympics after slipping on ice
Jeremy Colliton has been elevated to head coach of Canada’s men’s hockey team for the Beijing Olympics after Claude Julien was sidelined by an injury.
'He owed me one': Alain Vigneault turns tables on friend
Alain Vigneault allowed the smallest smile to cross his face, as this was a personal victory, as well as a team triumph. Vigneault’s Rangers beat the Canadiens, 3-1, in Game...
How their archrival's cast-off saved Canadiens' season
The Bruins were just looking to make a change. They didn’t realize it would revive their rival’s season. Less than four years after leading Boston to its second Stanley Cup...
'S--t happens': Mats Zuccarello initiates nasty Rangers collision
MONTREAL — Expect to hear some rumblings out of the Canadiens corner soon concerning what could have been a dangerous knee-on-knee collision initiated by Rangers winger Mats Zuccarello on Montreal...
Years of Rangers-Canadiens bad blood will hang over series
It is the history of personal relationships, of previous games between these two clubs, and of the places where history will be written anew that makes this Rangers-Canadiens first-round matchup...
A guide to the Canadiens threat to Rangers in Round 1
It was only three seasons ago when the Bell Centre in Montreal was still the House of Horrors for the Rangers. But after they beat the Canadiens in the 2014...
Bruins' mindless Julien penny-pinching can perfectly backfire
Question that would be rhetorical except that it is not: In what world would a team allow its just-fired, universally respected coach to be hired within a week by not...
Firing coach yet another vexing move from dysfunctional Bruins
When Claude Julien was fired as Devils coach by Lou Lamoriello with three games remaining in the 2006-07 season, despite the fact the team was in first place with a...
Good for the Bruins for putting hockey before PR — or Patriots
Enough with “optics.” The idea that sports teams should make decisions based on how they look rather than the logical deduction that got them there — assuming there is a...