You’re partying, opening up the cottage, slacking off, laying on the couch, picking your toenails, practicing yoga, drinking beer, while I’m giving my usual 140% at work, making sure travelers get on the ferry boat in fine fashion. Naturally I’m exhausted, and because of this, I’ll just take some pictures of my 1961-62 hockey coins [...]

Rick Ley may have grown up to become a hardrock defenceman for the Toronto Maple Leafs, New England Whalers, and Hartford Whalers, but he started out as a goalie, as you can see in the bottom paragraph on the left side, when he earned his sixth shutout as the first place Raiders turned back the [...]

Completely unbiased 2012-13 Stanley Cup predictions: First Round Islanders – Pittsburgh      (Pittsburgh) Ottawa – Montreal       (Montreal) Rangers – Capitals        (Rangers) Toronto – Boston        (Boston) Minnesota – Chicago     (Chicago) Detroit – Anaheim        (Anaheim) San Jose – Vancouver        (Vancouver) L.A. – St. Louis          (L.A.) Second Round Pittsburgh – Rangers          (Pittsburgh) Montreal – Boston           (Montreal) Chicago – L.A.          [...]

Danno sends over the news that NHL.com has Michel Therrien as the odds-on favourite for the Jack Adams Trophy as coach of the year. Chicago’s Joel Quenneville and Ottawa’s Paul MacLean are the runners up. You can see it here. Quenneville had his club on that massive unbeaten streak, earning at least a point in [...]

Danno sends over the new NHL.com top 16 rankings, and look at those crazy Canadiens! Ditto for what they say about Michel Therrien. Here’s the top five, and the full Super 16 list can be seen by clicking here RANK TEAM LAST WEEK COMMENTARY 1 1 Pittsburgh Penguins: When their 15-game win streak started, they [...]

When my dad took me to see the Habs in Toronto when I was a boy, he bought me three things I remember like it was yesterday -  an ice cream bar called an ‘Eskimo Pie’ back then, a little wooden stick with a player’s picture on the blade, and a Montreal bobble head doll. [...]

I was going through an old program I have, from an Ottawa ’67s game I was at back in 1976, and I found my ticket stub inside! Such a bonus! Here you’ll see Doug Wilson, general manager of the San Jose Sharks, when he looked like a white Jimi Hendrix. You can see Bruce Boudreau, [...]

In my opinion, Bobby Orr is the best who ever played. At least the best I’ve ever seen. The way he controlled things by speeding up or slowing down, the way he’d take the puck end to end and swoop and circle and set up others, or simply score himself. All from a defenceman who [...]

My almost complete (missing four) 1954-55 Parkhurst set. And yes, it’s not a mint set and that’s fine. I like them just the way they are. Detroit won the Stanley Cup this season, defeating Montreal four games to three in the finals. But the Canadiens were without Maurice Richard, who was on the sidelines serving [...]

It turns out that Eve Pearce, who wrote a guest post a few weeks back, is British and lives in England. I didn’t know this until recently. I wonder if she (a) likes the Beatles, (b) eats bangers and mash, (c) realizes she drives on the wrong side of the road, (d) has been to [...]