Archive for the ‘Bob Gainey’ Category
It seems like only yesterday the Habs were on the bubble for a playoff spot, playing poorly, winning some, losing too many.
For Habs fans, it was more than depressing. Because these are fans who are tired of mediocrity. It’s been too long.
How things can change. With Montreal controlling the game in Manhattan against the Rangers, winning [...]
March 16, 2010 in Bob Gainey, Carey Price, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, Ottawa Senators, Toronto Maple Leafs
Tags: Bob Gainey, Dominic Moore, Glen Metroplit, Henrik Sedin, Marc-Andre Bergeron, Mike Cammellari, Pierre Gauthier, Sergei Kostitsyn, Tomas Plekanec | 22 Comments »
I’m sure there’s not a lot that hasn’t already been said in the Bob Gainey saga which unfolded yesterday in Montreal. He’s stepping down as General Manager of the Canadiens, to be replaced by Pierre Gauthier.
You know this. I just wrote it to fill up space.
The question for me is, was it office politics that [...]
February 9, 2010 in Bob Gainey, Jean Beliveau, Montreal Canadiens
Tags: Bob Gainey, Carey Price, Jaroslav Halak, Jean Beliveau, Pierre Gauthier | 13 Comments »
It was easy to be a fan of Bob Gainey when he played because he seemed to do everything right, in a blue-collar kind of way. He wasn’t flashy like teammates Guy Lafleur or Yvan Cournoyer, but he was an all-important piece of the puzzle on the world’s greatest team in the latter part of [...]
February 8, 2010 in Bob Gainey, Carey Price, Dallas Stars, Doug Harvey, Guy Lafleur, Jean Beliveau, Maurice Richard, Montreal Canadiens, NHL playoffs, Sidney Crosby, Toe Blake, Yvan Cournoyer
Tags: Bob Gainey steps down, Brian Gionta, Carey Price, Claude Julien, Doug Weight, Guy Carbonneau, Guy Lafleur, Jaroslav Halak, John Tavares, Mario Lemieux, Mike Cammalleri, Pierre Gauthier, PJ Stock, Scott Gomez, Sidney Crosby, Yvan Cournoyer | 14 Comments »
The following are excerpts from an article in Tuesday’s Vancouver Province, written by sports writer Gordon McIntyre. Big words from a guy whose favourite team hasn’t won a thing in 40 years of existence.
It’s titled “What Happened To Proud CH?” And subtitled “Habs are on downward slide, so will Canucks play down there too?”
“Maybe Roch [...]
February 4, 2010 in Bob Gainey, Montreal Canadiens, Ottawa Senators, Vancouver Canucks
Tags: Andrei Markov, Brian Gionta, craigslist, Gordon McIntyre, Roch Carrier, Scott Gomez, The Hockey Sweater, Vancouver Province | 11 Comments »
I phoned Terry Harper this morning, just to say hello and also to take him up on his invitation from several months ago to call him again after I’d had a nice long chat with him back then. Shooting the breeze with Terry Harper
He said “call me again” and so I did.
He was a tall, stay-at-home [...]
January 31, 2010 in Bell Centre, Bob Gainey, Jean Beliveau, Montreal Canadiens, Terry Harper
Tags: Bob Gainey, Bobby Rousseau, Jacques Laperriere, Montreal Canadiens 100th Centennial celebration, Ralph Backstrom, Ted Harris, Terry Harper | 9 Comments »
Through the turmoil of recent days – the dismal losses, George Laraque being released and calling Bob Gainey and Jacques Martin “classless”, big Jean Beliveau suffering a stroke and taken to hospital, and Mike Cammalleri and Maxim Lapierre jawing at each other in practice, the Canadiens went in to New Jersey in a miserable state [...]
January 22, 2010 in 1972 Canada-Russia hockey, Bob Gainey, Jean Beliveau, Montreal Canadiens, New Jersey Devils, New York Rangers
Tags: Benoit Pouliot, Bob Gainey, Georges Laraque, J.P. Parise, Jacques Lemaire, Jacques Martin, Jean Beliveau, Mario Tremblay, Martin Brodeur, Mathieu Darche, Maxim Lapierre, Mike Cammalleri, Zack Parise | 24 Comments »
I suppose I wondered for the better part of two years why Georges Laraque was a Montreal Canadien. I just never got it. I always figured that surely there must be someone within the organization who could fight reasonably well and put up better numbers than Georges. At least skate and shoot better while doing a [...]
January 21, 2010 in Bob Gainey, John Ferguson Sr., Montreal Canadiens
Tags: Bob Gainey, Georges Laraque, John Ferguson | 8 Comments »
By the time the siren sounds on Wednesday night, we’ll know whether the Montreal Canadiens, the team we’ve cheered and cursed and loved and also wanted to tar and feather, will have either given themselves a swift boot in the behind, or have flushed themselves three quarters down the toilet and pretty well stopped playing [...]
January 19, 2010 in Bob Gainey, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, Ottawa Senators, St. Louis Blues
Tags: Andy McDonald, Bob Gainey, Brad Boyes, Jacques Martin, Keith Tkachuk, Mike Cammalleri, Paul Kariya, Scott Gomez, Tomas Plekanec | 24 Comments »
For me, Ilya Kovalchuk is as talented as Alex Ovechkin, and during a question and answer thing at ESPN.com with Pierre LeBrun and Scott Burnside, LeBrun threw this out:
What jersey will Ilya Kovalchuk be wearing at the end of the regular season?
Burnside: We’re guessing now it won’t be an Atlanta Thrashers jersey, so we’ll go [...]
January 7, 2010 in Alex Ovechkin, Atlanta Thrashers, Bob Gainey, Chicago Blackhawks, Montreal Canadiens, Philadelphia Flyers
Tags: Bob Gainey, ESPN, Ilya Kovalchuk, Pierre LeBrun, Scott Burnside, Vincent Lecavalier | 3 Comments »
What a story the goaltending situation in Montreal has become. A week or two ago, Jaroslav Halak was ready to be dealt by Bob Gainey for a top six forward. And many questioned whether a team would even give up that much for the goalie relegated to backup to Carey Price, who had cemented the [...]
December 23, 2009 in Bob Gainey, Carey Price, Carolina Hurricanes, Montreal Canadiens, New York Islanders, Toronto Maple Leafs
Tags: Andre Kostitsyn, Andrei Markov, Bob Gainey, Bobby Orr, Carey Price, Glen Metropolit, Jaroslav Halak, Sergei Kostitsyn | 14 Comments »