The Flower has dodged a bullet after the Quebec Court of Appeals decided he meant well when he helped son Mark break curfew a few times by driving the young man to a hotel to see his girlfriend. Guy failed to mention these hotel details and was charged with giving contradictory testimony at Mark’s sexual assault and forcible confinement [...]

  Louis Leblanc has gotten a lot of ink lately, mostly because the young Habs’ prospect, drafted 18th overall in 2009, has decided to forego his Harvard education to play junior in Montreal, and also because he was a shining star at Team Canada’s World Junior five-day development camp held recently in St. John’s. This [...]

As you can see by the following photo, players don’t stop playing the game they love once their careers are over. Here, Ron Francis, Jeremy Roenick, Guy Lafleur and others show the skills that had made them stars for so long in the NHL. I do, however, wish they would at least wear pants.

I don’t know why I didn’t think of this earlier. The Habs might still be playing if I did. We’ve all seen how Dustin Byfuglien, all 6′, 4″, 257 lbs of him, is so important to the Chicago Blackhawks. He’s a force to be reckoned with, especially close in and along the boards where he’s [...]

Chicago takes a 2-0 series lead after defeating the Philadelphia Flyers 2-1, and it’s said that their chances are 94% now that they’ll win it all after grabbing the first two games of the series. That’s all fine and dandy, but the last thing hockey needs is a four-game sweep in the Stanley Cup finals. It’s [...]

There’s a reason why general managers make big bucks and have meetings in nice, warm places with palm trees. Because they have to make massive decisions that could turn out to be either brilliant or extremely lousy. Montreal will have seven restricted free agents to deal with this summer, which means these players’ contracts are up [...]

If I were a Boston Bruin, I might not want to tell anybody this summer that I am. For only the third time in playoff history, a team has blown a 3-0 series lead and lost the seventh game as the Bruins fall to the Flyers 4-3. And to rub salt in the wound, the Bruins held [...]

Just change the name from Guy Lafleur to Mike Cammalleri and TV Guide has a new cover story. I want to clear something up. I think Tomas Plekanec is doing a fine job of pissing off Sidney Crosby and keeping him mostly off the score sheet. But I also think Pleks could be finding the twine [...]

A buddy of mine here in Powell River is not only the lead singer of the hard-drivin’ rock band “Frenzy” but is also a long-time Habs fan. And Mike Deschenes, when he’s not rockin’ or running pool tables or watching his Habs, writes poems. And he’s just sent me his latest, and it’s about the……yes, [...]

The lovely ladies, who don’t look too thrilled about having their picture taken with me, are waitresses. But not just any waitresses. These ladies worked at the Montreal Canadiens Restaurant, deep in the heart of Russia. It didn’t stay open long, this place. Maybe a year or so. And maybe because it was an independent business with no legal links [...]