Alexei Emelin underwent surgery on his left knee and apparently is lost for the next six months, which brings it to about the end of November before he’s up and at ‘em again. However long it takes, as long as he’s 100% when he does come back. I wonder if this tough hombre would throw [...]

Marc Bergevin says the the team is too small. Tomas Plekanec says it isn’t. I’ll settle this. They’re too small. But almost not. There are only two small guys on the Habs – Brian Gionta and David Desharnais, both standing at 5’7. They’re the two who make the team seem small. Without them, the subject [...]

That’s that. Habs gone after five games, losing 6-1 to the Ottawa Senators, and now what are we supposed to do? Cheer for another team? It’s a game of inches, and if Colby Armstrong had hit the back of the net instead of the post on a shorthanded breakaway, the boys would have tied it [...]

For the third straight game, the Canadiens looked tremendously ordinary and the starting goalie was pulled. So much for my previous pep talk. A total of eighteen pucks have found their way behind our two netminders during this three-game stretch, with last night being a 6-4 loss at the hands of the home town Pittsburgh [...]

There you have it. Alexei Emelin gone for the year with a torn ligament in his left knee. All because he made the remarkably gutsy and heroic decision to try to stop Milan Lucic dead in his tracks as the big Bruin was barreling full-tilt down the wing. Emelin was doing the job the best [...]

It must be up to a couple of dozen times now that I’ve checked different places about the state of Alexei Emelin, but it seems the word isn’t out yet. Yes, I’ve read in various places that he’s gone for the season, but how do these folks know? There hasn’t been an official announcement that [...]

Habs 2, Bruins 1. Now that’s hockey! It wasn’t good when Lars Eller pulled Zdeno Chara off-balance and took a seat in the penalty box with just 57 seconds remaining and his team holding on. The goalie was pulled and it was tense. Even tenser than when Lucy drives in the city. But they held [...]

When a team, any team, manages just four shots in the second period and a pathetic two in the third, they’re probably going to lose. Almost every time, I’ll bet. And the Canadiens did absolutely nothing to dispel this fact that I’m pretty confident in saying without having the all-important facts to back me up. [...]

Two goals and an assist for Michael Ryder as he and his Canadiens hand the Florida Panthers a 5-2 smacking, and the first-place squad finishes off a highly successful five-game road trip losing only once along the way. And although he didn’t exactly have to overextend himself on this night, Peter Budaj has now won [...]

The Canadiens held Tampa Bay to just two shots in the third period and fought back from a 3-1 deficit with three unanswered goals to keep the tricolour train a rollin’. A big 4-3 comeback win. What a team this year. It’s amazing. One of the biggest reasons the Habs have turned it around is [...]