The Montreal Canadiens were reportedly working on a significant trade before last Friday's deadline, and a report out of Toronto claimed their target was Matthew Knies of the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Defenseman Lane Hutson has recorded two or more shots in consecutive games. Add Hutson quarterbacking the No. 1 power-play unit against a Toronto side allowing the most shots per game (33.8) during the noted 19-game stretch, and I’m expecting the star blueliner to clear this total again.

The NHL slows down on Wednesday night with just two games between double-digit dockets on Tuesday and Thursday. The Islanders and Stars came through for us last

Fans arrived at the Montreal Forum on March 10, 1955, hoping for an offensive slugfest between the Canadiens and visiting Toronto Maple Leafs, a ferocious rivalry steeped in bitterness. What they got instead was an unsatisfying 0-0 tie and the NHL Canadian-rink debut of a newfangled ice-resurfacing machine whose arrival didn’t merit as much as a single word in the following day’s newspaper reports.