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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]