Following a statement win against the Tampa Bay Lightning, Montreal Canadiens forward Jake Evans voiced a very strong message to every team in the NHL.

Will the Canadiens be able to sign Jake Evans? Good question. Until proven otherwise, the rumor is that if Evans is reasonable in his demands, the Canadiens are very open to the possibility of keeping him in town for several more years.

The Montreal Canadiens know they have a commodity in Jake Evans. Now, the problem is should he truly stay or go? Evans, by nature, is a defensive center in the truest sense.

Evans produced an assist in Sunday's 5-4 overtime win over the Rangers.

The New Jersey Devils are actively searching for a bottom-six center, and they might have found one in upcoming Montreal Canadiens free agent forward Jake Evans. The Devils, second in the ...

What will it take to sign Jake Evans? Will David Savard make it past the trade deadline? Eric Engels answers these questions and more in his Canadiens mailbag.

Jake Evans scored the game-winning goal with 2:15 remaining in regulation to lift the Montreal Canadiens past the Tampa Bay Lightning 3-2 on Tuesday night.

Nikita Kucherov and Jake Guentzel scored for Tampa Bay, which opened a four-game road trip with a 5-3 loss to Toronto on Monday.

Jake Evans has been having a career year. He’s been building towards this. I watched him at Notre Dame and could tell he was going to be a solid NHL role player. In college hockey, he wore the “A” and eventually was team captain too. He was always a character player.

A trade might never happen, however, according to TVA Sports’ Renaud Lavoie, who contradicted LeBrun’s report, claiming Evans is all but guaranteed to stay in Montreal. “I don’t know when, but there is a wedding coming to ensure that Jake stays in the organization,” Lavoie said, adding the extension is a matter of "when, not if" it'd be signed.

The future of Montreal Canadiens center Jake Evans remains unclear as conflicting reports have emerged in the past few hours regarding what the forward and the franchise will do next and ahead of the March 7 trade deadline.