Executives and legal counsel from the National Hockey League met with executives, legal counsel and a collection of 11 players from the National Hockey League Players Association for roughly three hours Tuesday at the PA’s office in ongoing Collective Bargaining Agreement negotiations. This was the fourth meeting since bargaining commenced June 29 in New York. [...]

At yesterday’s Montreal Canadiens’ game, scouts from a third of the league were in attendance, tweeted Montreal Gazette’s Dave Stubbs: the St. Louis Blues, Vancouver Canucks, Pittsburgh Penguins, Columbus Blue Jackets,Los Angeles Kings, Detroit Red Wings, Calgary Flames, Phoenix Coyotes,Ottawa Senators, Minnesota Wild and Toronto Maple Leafs. It makse sense that so many teams where in attendance, the Habs are going into seller’s mode very soon, and [...]

The Montreal Canadiens appear to be in seller’s mode but RDS’s Mario Tremblay writes, there are a handful of guys who aren’t going anywhere “Erik Cole, Max Pacioretty, Tomas Plekanec, Rene Bourque, David Desharnais and PK Subban will not go anywhere. The club is stuck with Tomas Kaberle.” That leaves the likes of Andrei Kostitsyn, Chris Campoli, Hal Gill and Travis Moen, among others, as potential trade targets. Now, [...]

RDS’ Renaud Lavoie proposes that the majority of the unrestricted free agents to be won’t be members of the squad after the trade deadline. That list includes Chris Campoli, Mathieu Darche, Hal Gill, Andrei Kostitsyn and Travis Moen. Under contract until 2013, defenseman Yannick Weber could also be moved. The Canadiens should be able to trade defensemen Gill and Weber without much issue. Kostitsyn could [...]

The latest Montreal Canadiens notes from The Montreal Gazette: Chris Campoli (hamstring) skated at the Bell Sports Complex in Brossard on Monday. Andrei Markov got back on the ice Monday with his teammates at practice for first time since suffering a knee injury more than a year ago. Andreas Engqvist was called up from the minors [...]