The Montreal Canadiens are in the hunt. They took the ice Saturday night and picked up an impressive win to slow down an on-fire Buffalo Sabres team, pushing themselves up the Eastern Conference standings into third place in the Atlantic Division. It's right where a team wants to be to make a push in the stretch run of the season.

Welcome back to another edition of NHL Rumours from the crew at Last Word on Hockey. We’re just days away from the Olympic break and while some players will be off to play in the games, others will enjoy a short vacation from the ice.

A large chunk of the crowd, particularly in the lower bowl, was wearing the visiting team’s colors Saturday night.

These two goals on the final game day of January were Caufield's 12th and 13th goal of the month. This now ties him for the Canadiens franchise record with Guy Lafleur who also scored the same amount of goals in a month back in 1979. Yes, it took about 47 years before another player from Montreal could score that amount of goals.

Cole Caufield scored twice in the third period and had an assist to help the Montreal Canadiens rally for a 4-2 win against the Buffalo Sabres at KeyBank Center on Saturday. “Honestly, when you look at the week itself,

The Buffalo Sabres will try to extend their winning streak to six games when they host the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night at KeyBank Center.Buffalo has been one of the NHL’s

What a difference a week makes. At this time seven days ago, the Montreal Canadiens were licking their wounds after a 4-3 defeat to the division-rival Boston Bruins following two late goals against.

Nick Suzuki had two goals and an assist for the Montreal Canadiens in a 7-3 win against the Colorado Avalanche at Bell Centre on Thursday. “We had a good start straight from the first shift,” Slafkovsky said.

Montreal Canadiens' forward Juraj Slafkovsky is having a fantastic season, and chances are, it will be remembered as his coming-out season.