The Canadiens won their series in overtime but the Victoire will need to play a further match.
Adding some pieces on the rowdiness of fans after the game. A seismologist found that the fans’ ebullience registered as 0.5 on the Richter scale.
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Kate
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Kate
Premier Fréchette gave Emmanuel Macron a Canadiens sweater in Paris on Monday. CTV’s headline says Macron nonetheless didn’t support Montreal for the defence bank HQ, but the text says nothing about this. La Presse, however, gives the details.
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Kate
A big march is planned for the Journée nationale des patriotes, not downtown, but cutting through Rosemont.
Later, reports from Radio‑Canada and CTV.
CE
I’m not sure if it was the same one but I saw a smallish march on Laurier earlier today with lots of Quebec and Patriote flags. It was mostly a younger crowd and had an odd, angry vibe.
A
It’s not the same one, the one on Laurier was a bunch of racists flying their flags
CE
Ok, that makes sense. They definitely gave off Brownshirts vibes.
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Kate
The Tailor of Alexandria sounds like a John le Carré title, but actually it’s a real man plying a traditional trade here in Montreal. Nice profile on Radio‑Canada.
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Kate
Top story on most platforms Monday is the day’s dual hockey tournaments – the Victoire one win from taking the Walter Cup, the ultimate prize in the Professional Women’s Hockey League, and the Canadiens one match from either winning the series against the Sabres, or hanging up their skates for the summer.
MarcG
Pretty funny quote in Patrick Déry’s latest newsletter about Habs fever: “Never have temporary immigrants and unilingual Anglophones been so popular in Quebec”
Tim S. 23:44 on 2026-05-18 Permalink
Lots of honking out here by the highway
MarcG 07:54 on 2026-05-19 Permalink
Some photos of the police keeping the peace afterwards
PatrickC 09:23 on 2026-05-19 Permalink
With the first two series extending to seven games, I started wishing there was only one more series to go.
jeather 10:08 on 2026-05-19 Permalink
Carolina’s been off for a week and a half, so I anticipate there is one more series to go for the Habs.
Uatu 10:49 on 2026-05-19 Permalink
Just be thankful that they didn’t rip apart downtown with a celebration riot
Kate 11:06 on 2026-05-19 Permalink
They’re saving that for the Cup.
Joey 12:12 on 2026-05-19 Permalink
@jeather apparently when teams that swept their series (and wind up with long rest periods) face off against teams that played a full seven games, the latter are much more likely to win the series…
jeather 12:16 on 2026-05-19 Permalink
Joey, really? My mother will be delighted to hear that.
steph 12:50 on 2026-05-19 Permalink
The last time they won the cup they came off a 4-2, 4-0, 4-0 to then win it 4-1. Rest did them good.
Joey 12:54 on 2026-05-19 Permalink
From Arpon Basu, who covers the Habs for the Athletic:
Since 2000, there have been eight series in the Stanley Cup playoffs where one team was coming off a Game 7 win and the other was coming off a four-game sweep. The team winning Game 7 won seven of those series, and in two instances, they even swept that opponent.
Joey 12:56 on 2026-05-19 Permalink
Steph, the third series against the Islanders was 4-1. They lost the first two against Quebec, won four straight to win the series, then swept Buffalo (all games were 4-3), and were up 3-0 against NY before dropping one. Eleven straight wins but lots of close games, 10 straight overtime wins that spring. What a run.
Nicholas 16:01 on 2026-05-19 Permalink
Someone noted if Carolina wanted to keep active some players could have flown to Switzerland and played some game in the world championships in between these series.