Although I think Bob Gainey is an intelligent, thoughtful man, I’m here to set him straight.
Gainey says Canadien fans should be a patient bunch. Doesn’t he realize who he’s talking to here?
You want patience? We haven’t won the cup since 1993. That’s about a hundred years ago.
We’re not Toronto Maple Leafs fans, Bob. They haven’t seen [...]

My sister in Ottawa sent me a May 30th newspaper clipping from the Ottawa Citizen written by Andrew Duffy. It’s about mistakes on the Stanley Cup, and frankly, in some cases, the engraver (there’s been a few of them) must have been either really rushed to get it done, drunk, or hadn’t slept in days when they were doing their engraving.
Or maybe they [...]

I suppose teams who win their Conference title may now have to re-think the old superstition about not touching the trophy. Pittsburgh proudly skated around with the Prince of Wales when they won the east a few weeks back, but Detroit wanted no part of the Clarence Campbell trophy because you just don’t do that. That’s the [...]

It’s always good when there’s a game seven in the Stanley Cup finals.  it makes players, owners, program sellers, hot dog vendors, and Gary Bettman very happy. Seven games means money for some, honour and jubilation for others. Seven games means jitters for players and fans of the teams involved. And at seven games, wives and non-fans across Canada [...]

Between periods of game six of the Penguins-Wings game, they showed Pittsburgh goalie Marc-Andre Fleury walking in to the Mellon Arena before the game dressed to the nines in a really nice suit, wearing a stupid baseball hat backwards. Why would that be? Is it just me, or are backward baseball hats a couple of years [...]

There’s only one way to calm a smiling, happy, confident, bright-eyed team like the Pittsburgh Penguins. Demolish them in your home rink, which is what the Detroit Red Wings did Saturday night, thrashing the flightless birds 5-0, thereby wiping the collective smiles off the Penguins faces in impressive fashion.
Who knew? The stars were aligning quickly in [...]

Geez, I start talking about how good Detroit looks, how much depth they have, blah blah blah, and in game four they look as ordinary as Montreal on most nights this season. So now the series is tied, Pittsburgh’s feeling good, and Detroit might not be as solid as I thought. We’ll see. The Wings needs Pavel Datsyuk back.

The worst possible thing to happen in a Stanley Cup finals is to see a sweep. It’s not good for hockey. It’s the last thing the league wants to happen. That’s why it’s great that Pittsburgh beat Detroit in game three to make the series a much more interesting two games to one for Motor City.
The [...]

They don’t even need Gordie Howe and Terry Sawchuk. It’s now two games to none for the Detroit Red Wings.
 
What’s this about parity in the NHL? That’s what the spin doctors say. They tell us the league is so evenly-matched now that any team can beat any other team on most nights. Maybe that’s the case during the long, drawn-out [...]

A friend came up to me at work and said, “What d’ya think, four straight?” For who, I asked, Detroit? And he said no, Pittsburgh.
The more I thought about his prediction of four straight for Pittsburgh, the more I though he’d been smoking too much Texada Timewarp. I can see what he was thinking though, after Crosby and [...]