This is the NHL’s best team?: One night after Ottawa scored five on Colorado, the Canadiens put a seven-spot on the Avalanche, tying their season-high in goals. Colorado still has an NHL-best record of 35-8-9, but lost a second-consecutive game for the fourth time this season, and all of those mini slumps have come in January.

This was a gutsy win, earned on the second half of a back-to-back, against a rested Dallas Stars team, and it showed just how well the pieces have fallen into place for the Montreal Canadiens.

Two of the NHL's best stories so far this season will highlight a busy Saturday slate as the Montreal Canadiens head south of the border to face the division-rival Buffalo Sabres.

The Vegas Golden Knights look to even the best-of-7 Stanley Cup Semifinals with a win in Game 4 against the Montreal Canadiens at Bell Centre in Montreal on Sunday. The Canadiens took the lead in the series with a 3-2 overtime victory in Game 3 on Friday.

He gets the last laugh: Cole Caufield, surprisingly left off the U.S. Olympic team, scored the winning goal with 15 seconds remaining in regulation time. The Americans’ general manager is Bill Guerin — Minnesota’s president of hockey operations and GM. Caufield has a team-high 25 goals in 50 games this season.

More than 30 years after the Quebec Nordiques became the Colorado Avalanche, we saw the Montreal Canadiens take on the Nordiques at the Bell Centre last night. It was great to have the Battle of Quebec back for one night,

Nick Suzuki scored a pair of special-team goals in the first period in a three-point outing to lead the host Montreal Canadiens to a 7-3 beatdown of the struggling Colorado Avalanche on Thursday.

The Montreal Canadiens host the Colorado Avalanche after the Canadiens knocked off the Vegas Golden Knights 3-2 in overtime