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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MONTREAL (AP) — Hall of Fame defenseman Guy Lapointe has oral cancer. The Montreal Canadiens revealed the diagnosis Wednesday at ...

Montreal has reunited its legendary Big Three defencemen, putting Guy Lapointe's No. 5 into the rafters at the Bell Centre along with the numbers of his longtime teammates and partners Serge Savard ...

Habs clown prince Guy Lapointe cast a wide net of mischief The Canadiens will celebrate the No. 5 of Hall of Fame defenceman Guy Lapointe on Saturday. And anyone nearby would be wise to watch their ...

It was my first training camp with the Canadiens. September, 1970. After a few days, the “big team” left to begin playing its exhibition schedule. The rest of us stayed on in the Voyageurs’ camp ...

recalls, with a laugh, the crystal ball into which he gazed last December, generous expectations revealed for the 2020-21 Montreal Canadiens a few days before they began their 56-game NHL schedule.

MONTREAL (AP) — Hall of Fame defenseman Guy Lapointe has oral cancer. The Montreal Canadiens revealed the diagnosis Wednesday at the request of Lapointe and his family. “Dr. Keith Richardson, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Montreal has reunited its legendary Big Three defencemen, putting Guy Lapointe's No. 5 into the rafters at the Bell Centre along ...

MONTREAL, QC - NOVEMBER 8: - Guy Lapointe attends his jersey retirement ceremony prior to the NHL game against the Minnesota Wild at the Bell Centre on November 8, 2014 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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