The Hockey Hall of Fame Induction ceremony went off swimmingly, except for the time maybe when Mats Sundin pronounced Elmer Lach’s name “Latch,” and Patrick Roy took a swipe at the Canadiens, saying they decided to trade him, which only sort of happened after Roy told Ronald Corey he’d never play another game with the [...]

Elmer Lach and the Rocket, looking for that pitch down the middle, the one they can drive deep into centre field. The 2012 Major League Baseball season is firing up , and I think I say it every year, but geez I miss the Expos.

You can look at the Nov. 25, 1950 program lineups for the Habs and Leafs and see a few cool things. This was Montreal’s 20th game of the season, and they would lose 4-1 to the Leafs in Toronto on this night. (Okay, that wasn’t so cool). Gerry McNeil is in goal for Montreal in his rookie [...]

The Canadiens take to the ice tonight against the Winnipeg Jets, and we all know what an important game this is considering the Habs have been skydiving to earth with a flimsy parachute. But there’s nothing I can add to what has and is being written everywhere I look. And to paraphrase that great Habs fan Bob Dylan, [...]

I feel quite safe in saying that when hockey fans everywhere heard the news that the plane carrying Yaroslavl Lokomitiv had gone down, there were immediate thoughts about their own teams. Losing the Montreal Canadiens for example…. I have no words. Shockingly, there was a moment in time when we almost did lose the Montreal Canadiens, but it [...]

Noticed this in an old Forum program I have and I thought I’d add a few words. Elmer retired from the Canadiens after the 1954 season and spent a couple of years as a successful coach of the Montreal Royals of the Quebec Hockey League. From there, in or around 1957, he joined Maislin Transport [...]