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 [...]

“CUP COMES HOME” blared the headline in 1993 and little did we know that the Cup just a year later was going to run away from home and stay away. Stanley come home. We miss you. Enough’s enough. I think I’ll change it. It was Montreal’s 24th 25th championship in 1993 2013 and it was [...]

The city of Boston is going through some tough times now as we all know, and dra58 sends along this moving piece from the Boston game last night. It’s not the first time this city been affected by terrorism. Evil also paid a visit on Sept. 11, 2001, as flights 11 and 175, the planes [...]

When Steve Ott was growing up in Summerside, PEI, he would hear it all the time. “Steve,” they would say, “you can lick anybody.” And with great confidence, young Ott went out into the world and did just that. Jeff Halpern was first given a tongue-lashing by Ott, and eventually a solid licking. “I wouldn’t [...]

It was as one-sided as can be, a 5-1 Habs romp over a lacklustre Buffalo team, and how nice it is to clinch a playoff spot with eight games still to go instead of on the last day of the season, which is what we’ve seen in the past. Just a great night for the [...]

Game day, with the Habs in Buffalo to meet a team on the outside looking in as far as a playoff spot goes. It’s also a team that has beaten Montreal the last three times they’ve met, so that nonsense has to come to a screeching halt. It’s going to be interesting for sure. Can [...]

As you can see below, the Canadiens have awarded Peter Budaj for a job well done. I’ll be the first to admit that this fellow made my nervous, especially after he lost 5-1 in his first start of the season, and then allowed 5 goals in a shootout loss in his second. I whined like [...]

The Canadiens fell behind 3-1 in the third period and refused to give up, which we’ve come to expect from them. They scratched and clawed until the final siren and it was almost another miraculous night. Almost. The boys fell short, losing 3-2 to the visiting Washington Capitals, and maybe it’s a good time to [...]

Ryan Miller stopped 38 of the 39 shots the Habs sent his way, with the end result being a 2-1 Sabres win at the Bell Centre, and I suppose if the boys are going to lose, they might as well do it before they play the Penguins on Tuesday and Bruins on Wednesday. I’m sure [...]

It’s remarkable that even though the Pittsburgh Penguins have now won eleven straight, the Canadiens remain just three points behind them with two games in hand. Just an excellent example of the kind of year the Habs are having. And as soon as the boys do away with the Sabres tonight, it’s the Pens to [...]