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There has been no official word from the organization about Markov's injury, but we have all heard the rumors and speculations that are out there in the media.  Renaud Lavoie (RDS) reported minutes after the match against the Carolina Hurricanes ended that Markov will be out of the lineup for at least three months.  It was perhaps too soon to make that assessment and most probably the assessment was based on the way the injury occured; the similarities between this incident and the incident that took Montreal's star defenceman out against the Pittsburgh Penguins; the visib

Curtis Sanford did everything he could to give his team a fighting chance, but the Bulldogs were unable to capitalize on their chances in a defeat to the Grand Rapids Griffins at the Copps Coliseum tonight.  The Griffins didn't take long to open the scoring when at the 8:53 mark of the first period, Francis Pare grabbed a rebound and with no defencemen in front of him, he beat Sanford with a quick shot making it 1-0 for the Griffins.  This would be the only goal scored in the first as the Griffins played a very tight defensive game and allowed only four shots on the net. 

Montreal forward Dustin Boyd, who was placed on the waivers list yesterday by the organization, has been cleared to stay with the team.  This means that the team has 30 days or 10 games, whichever comes first, to send Boyd down to the Hamilton Bulldogs, if they desire to do so.  Although, it should be noted that Coach Jacques Martin did say yesterday that Boyd will remain with the team if he clears waivers.  This does raise some questions as to why the Habs put Boyd on waivers.  Perhaps they were hoping that Boyd will be picked up by another team clearing out some cap-sp

After scoring only one goal on 70 shots in their last two outings, Head coach Jacques Martin has decided to shuffle his deck.  The shuffle landed Andrei Kostitsyn, the team's best scorer, on Scott Gomez's left wing with Brian Gionta completing the line.  Kostitsyn's demotion to the struggling second line also saw Lars Eller being promoted to the first line playing along with Tomas Plekanec and Michael Cammalleri.  The third line of Benoit Pouliot-Jeff Halpern-Mathieu Darche remained intact.  And finally, Tom Pyatt replaced Dustin Boyd to center the fourth lin

Montreal might have to face the struggling Buffalo Sabres without their best player tonight.  Tomas Plekanec, the leading scorer of the team, was told to stay in the team's hotel room after showing flu like symptoms.  While many of his team mates, including line mate Michael Cammalleri believe he will be in the lineup, he still remains a game time decision. 

Buffalo is also having their own injury woes and will be missing Ryan Miller for tonight's game, out with a muscle strain. 

The Hamilton Bulldogs returned to the Copps Coliseum to play the second part of the back-to-back home series against the Manitoba Moose.  The 'Dogs decided to go with the struggling Mayer in the nets.  Mayer's last outing was a disaster when he allowed 4 goals on 12 shots against the Syracuse Crunch.  It didn't take long for the Moose to open the scoring when tough guy Tommy Maxwell took a shot that trickled past Robert Mayer.  After 1 minute and 50 seconds, the Moose led the game by a score of 1-0.

Despite previous reports about the potential lineup changes for tonight's game against the Columbus Blue Jackets, Jaroslav Spacek will not be watching the match from the press-box.  At the practice session yesterday, Alexandre Picard had been paired with Andrei Markov while Spacek played alongside Ryan O'Byrne.  This led to speculations that Spacek, a veteran defenceman who is going through a tough season debut, would be a healthy scratch against the CBJ to make room for Picard, who has been fairly impressive and consistent.   Today, this was confirmed to not be

The Bulldogs broke a three game losing streak at Copps Coliseum when Yannick Weber scored his sixth goal of the season with 40 seconds to go in the third period against the Syracuse Crunch.  The Bulldogs dominated the match with 42 shots on goal but were only able to score one goal in the first two periods when Max Pacioretty redirected a shot by Klubertanz for his first goal of the season.  On the other side of the ice, Syracuse took only 12 shots on Robert Mayer, beating him four times in the process.  

The Bulldogs lost their second match in as many nights at the hands of the same team, the Manitoba Moose.  The match, just like the previous match, ended with a shootout win for the Moose, 4-3.  Most of the scoring in this game happened in the second period when the Moose scored three goals while the Bulldogs responded with two, one by Weber (his 5th of the season) and the other by Desharnais (his 2nd of the season).  Desharnais also earned an assist on Weber's goal while Brandon Nash earned two assists. 

The Canadiens cancelled their on-ice practice session today due to a power-outage at their practice facility Complex Sportif Bell in Brossard, Quebec.  The team skated for about 15 minutes only with emergency lighting and the facility was closed to visitors.  As the players headed to the gym for off-ice training, the lights came on leaving only the goaltenders, Mathieu Darche and the goalie coach on the ice. 

Defenceman Yannick Weber had a two-goal game as the Bulldogs defeated the Rochester Americans 5-2 at Copps Coliseum.   Mid way through the first period, the Bulldogs got on the scoreboard with a powerplay goal by Weber, his second of the season.  With another goal by Alexander Avtsin, the Bulldogs finished the period up by two goals.  This was Avtsin's first goal of the season. 

After winning their season opener yesterday against the Rochester Americans, the Hamilton Bulldogs gave three goals in the third period to lose their home opener 5 to 3 at the hands of the Toronto Marlies at Copps Coliseum, Hamilton.