The Denver Post reported Monday night that Patrick Roy will be the next coach of the Colorado Avalanche, according to his younger brother, Stephane. “They’re discussing the final details of an arrangement. Colorado is going to be very happy. Patrick …

 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 …

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 …

P.K. Subban’s stay at the World Hockey Championship in Sweden was a short one. Team Canada lost 3-2 in a shootout to Sweden in the quarterfinals Thursday, marking the fourth straight year Canada will return home without a medal after losing …

P.K. Subban skated with Team Canada Wednesday in Stockholm as the squad prepared for Thursday’s quarterfinal game against Sweden at the World Hockey Championship (2 p.m., TSN, RDS). Subban, a finalist for this year’s Norris Trophy as the NHL’s best …

With the Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs and Vancouver Canucks all losing in the first round of the playoffs, the Ottawa Senators have become Canada’s team. No Canadian team has won the Stanley Cup since the Canadiens in 1993 and the …

Do the Canadiens need to get bigger? That’s a question Tomas Plekanec has heard many times while a member of the Canadiens. “Every year? For the last 10 years?” he replied with a grin Saturday when asked how often he …

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Canadiens’ general manager Marc Bergevin gave goaltender Carey Price a vote of confidence on Monday during his end-of-season press conference.
The 25-year-old goaltender struggled during the team’s late-season slump.
“Can Carey be better? He’ll be the first one to admit he can be better and he said he will be better,” Bergevin told reporters.
“I have faith in him that he will be better. He had some good stretches and he had some so-so stretches. And that’s part of being a young goaltender and we’re going to move forward with him and I’m 100 per cent behind him.”

Canadiens GM Marc Bergevin held his end-of-season press conference Monday in Brossard after the NHL announced that he is a finalist for the 2013 General Manager of the Year Award along with Bob Murray of the Anaheim Ducks and Ray Shero of …