A couple of Canadiens players and a Habs prospect will be coming home from the World Hockey Championship in Sweden with medals.

Raphael Diaz was part of the Switzerland team that settled for silver after losing 5-1 to Sweden in Sunday’s final. It marked the first medal at the tournament for Switzerland in 60 years. Diaz logged 20:45 of ice time in the gold-medal game.

Alex Galchenyuk was the star for the United States in the bronze-medal game, scoring twice in the shootout during a 3-2 win over Finland after the Americans blew a 2-0 third-period lead. Canadiens prospect Danny Kristo, a second-round draft pick in 2008 (56th overall) was also on Team USA.

Other Canadiens players who participated at the world championship were Tomas Plekanec (Czech Republic), P.K. Subban (Canada) and prospect Tim Bozon (France), a third-round pick (64th overall) at last year’s NHL entry draft..

(Photo by Jacques Boissinot/The Canadian Press)

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MONTREAL — Once again this year, the members of the Canadiens organization who participated in the IIHF World Hockey Championship played a pivotal role in the competition for their respective countries. Six Habs players and prospects participated…

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Therrien Left Off Of The Jack Adams Ballot



With Michel Therrien not in the running, expect Paul Maclean

of the Ottawa Senators to take home the Jack adams Trophy.

With P.K. Subban named as a finalist for the Norris Trophy, Brendan Gallagher being considered for the Calder as the league’s top rookie and Marc Bergevin being what should be a shoe in for the GM of the year it was expected…

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Habs defenseman Raphael Diaz (left) goes for gold today at

the WHC as his Swiss team takes on Sweden.


Alex Galchenyuk and Danny Kristo may not have finished the World Hockey Championships with gold medals as they ould have liked, but the two Montreal Canadiens are on their way to bronze medals as the Americans are currently up 2-0 over the Finns with…

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Alex Galchenyuk celebrates his goal against

Russia in USA’s 8-3 win on Thursday.


The Montreal Canadiens may have started their off season earlier than they had hoped but there are still a few Habs who have yet to hang up their skates for the summer.

Alex Galchenyuk scored what provd to be the game winner for Team USA in the World Hockey Championships on…

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MONTREAL – There were a few factors that led to the Canadiens skipping from 15th in the conference to first in the division in half a season. The biggest was Michel Therrien.

When Therrien returned for his second stint behind the Habs bench thi…

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During his post-mortem press conference, Canadiens’ General Manager Marc Bergavin expressed the organization’s “faith” in the professionalism and ability of their 2005 fifth overall pick, goaltender Carey Price. However, is Bergavin really expressing the team’s feelings, or are they genuinely concerned about the future of their number one goaltender?

The latter may be closer to the truth than…

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Michel Therrien took over a last-place team in the Eastern Conference when he was hired to coach the Canadiens last summer and turned them into Northeast Division champions and a second-place finish in the conference, but it wasn’t enough to be one of the three finalists for the Jack Adams Award that goes “to the NHL coach adjudged to have contributed the most to his team’s success.”

The NHL announced on Friday morning that the three finalists are Bruce Boudreau of the Anaheim Ducks, Paul MacLean of the Ottawa Senators and Joel Quenneville of the Chicago Blackhawks.

Quenneville won the award previously with the St. Louis Blues in 1999-2000, while Boudreau won it in 2007-08 with the Washington Capitals. This marks the second straight year MacLean is a finalist after losing to Ken Hitchcock of the St. Louis Blues last year.

The Canadiens do have three finalists for NHL awards: Brendan Gallagher is up for the Calder Trophy as the top rookie, P.K. Subban for the Norris Trophy as the best defenceman and Marc Bergevin for the top GM award.

(Photo by Pierre Obendrauf/The Gazette)

Adams finalists: Boudreau, MacLean, Quenneville, NHL.com

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Join Corey Collard, Nick Murdocco, Steven Hindle and Coach K as they go over the 3-2 overtime victory by the Boston Bruins over the New York Rangers, as well as the other series going on in the NHL Playoffs. The gang is joined by Paul Cuthbert of the Red Line Hockey Show during the first segment.

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