from Rachel Blount of the Star Tribune, For every player who aspires to be part of a hometown team, there is another who has found that familiarity can breed surprising unhappiness. So it went with Guillaume Latendresse, who spent the final weeks of his tenure in Montreal preparing for an inevitable trade. The lofty expectations that fall upon young French Canadian players in that city had pushed his...
Amidst all the hoopla surrounding the Laraque fiasco, a minor deal went down involving a player that many expected to be the “The Next French Hope” of the Habs; one that this writer didn’t expect to see. Guillaume Latendresse, who has been known as everything from an overrated 4th liner to a province’s prodigal son, is off for relative [...]
from Michael Russo of the Star Tribune, Examine Saturday’s victory at Colorado, and it might be impossible to come up with another game in which the Wild has spent more time in the opponent’s zone. The Wild probably spent three-quarters of the game forechecking the rubber off the puck. Now, it’s safe to say the Wild is starting to get it. There’s a reason why the team has earned...
Quickly, name the last true effective power forward the Wild has had on their roster...I'll give you more time. Darby Hendrickson ? Nope. Derek Boogaard ? Not quite. I'll answer this for you: never. The Wild have never had a good power forward. They drafted James Sheppard with the hope that he'd become one, but that hasn't worked out. Now with the dumping of Benoit Pouliot to Montreal, the Wild has...
Montreal Canadiens general manager Bob Gainey told reporters Tuesday that he could no longer could wait for forward Guillaume Latendresse to develop, which is why he traded him to the Minnesota Wild for forward Benoit Pouliot.
Man that winning streak sure was fun while it lasted. Let's start another one real soon. Blues news The Blues special teams were less than special. I would make a Special Olympics joke, but at least all those athletes are winners. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch] Patrice Bergeron had a good game for the Bruins . [Stanley Cup of Chowder] Hockey links Monday's results. [Yahoo! Sports] Just one damn game on...
The Canadiens have dealt away Guillaume Latendresse to Minnesota for Benoit Pouliot (a choice that some are doubtful about ), and are bringing Sergei Kostitsyn back in from the cold. Also, Georges Laraque has been given a five-game suspension for a damaging hit on a Detroit player Saturday night.
, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Wild have traded former first-round draft choice Benoit Pouliot (BEHN-wah, POO-lee-aht) to Montreal for left wing Guillaume Latendresse (GEE-OHM, lah-TEHN-drehs).
The 4th overall pick of the 2005 NHL entry draft has scored 18 points in 65 career games. From AP- The Minnesota Wild have traded former first-round draft choice Benoit Pouliot to Montreal for left wing Guillaume Latendresse. The 23-year-old Pouliot has been one of a handful of first-round disappointments for the Wild in recent years after [...]
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- The Minnesota Wild have traded former first-round draft choice Benoit Pouliot (BEHN-wah, POO-lee-aht) to Montreal for left wing Guillaume Latendresse (GEE-OHM, lah-TEHN-drehs).
The Minnesota Wild have traded former first-round draft choice Benoit Pouliot (BEHN-wah, POO-lee-aht) to Montreal for left wing Guillaume Latendresse (GEE-OHM, lah-TEHN-drehs).
The Minnesota Wild have traded former first-round draft choice Benoit Pouliot (BEHN-wah, POO-lee-aht) to Montreal for left wing Guillaume Latendresse (GEE-OHM, lah-TEHN-drehs).
The Minnesota Wild have traded former first-round draft choice Benoit Pouliot (BEHN-wah, POO-lee-aht) to Montreal for left wing Guillaume Latendresse (GEE-OHM, lah-TEHN-drehs).