🚨 SHOCKING NHL RUMOR: Canadiens Secretly Meeting with 3-Time Stanley Cup Champion — Is a BLOCKBUSTER Return Brewing in Montreal?

Hockey insiders are losing their minds after a wild, unconfirmed report surfaced on Monday morning: the Montreal Canadiens are allegedly in secret talks with a retired three-time Stanley Cup champion about an unprecedented comeback — and it's someone nobody saw coming.

According to a rogue insider post on X (formerly Twitter) that has since been deleted, Habs GM Kent Hughes was spotted “having dinner behind closed doors” with a legendary NHL figure — and not just any figure, but a former Canadiens rival who once said he’d “never wear the red sweater.”

So who is it?

🧊 Speculation is exploding online with names like:

• Jonathan Toews, who has hinted at a return if “the timing is right.”

• Patrick Kane, who still hasn’t ruled out a Canadian swan song.

• Even wilder: Carey Price as a GM consultant/player hybrid deal to make room for an “emergency playoff comeback.”

   

“If even 5% of this is true, it would be the most dramatic U-turn in Canadiens history,” said TSN’s Dave Poulin during a panel.

Adding more fuel to the fire, fans have noticed mysterious movements on the Canadiens’ cap sheet and recent practice sessions being closed to media — something that rarely happens unless a major announcement is brewing.

And here’s where it gets weird: a former NHL exec anonymously told The Hockey News that the move “might not even be about the player — it’s about reigniting the dynasty aura of Montreal before the 2025 playoff push.”

Fans are split down the middle:

• Some say this is total fiction, a viral distraction during the offseason lull.

• Others point to similar patterns that happened before Marian Hossa returned under unusual contract terms

❗ "Is it a smoke bomb... or the spark of something legendary?"
Only the Bell Centre knows the truth — and they’re not talking. Yet. 👀