Canadiens Are Not For Sale

A report in a Montreal newspaper that the Canadiens are for sale was quickly denied on Friday by owner George Gillett and NHL commissioner Gary Bettman.

According to La Presse, Jim Balsillie of Research in Motion told the newspaper that the 100-year-old club was for sale.

When asked by TSN to respond to the report, Balsillie’s lawyer Rich Rodier said, “absolutely not, it couldn’t be farther from the truth, there is nothing to it - zero.”