Tony Gallagher in the Vancouver Province tells us some very interesting information regarding the 1993 Marty McSorley stick-measuring incident that changed the momentum for the Habs, who then went on to take series and win the Stanley Cup.
First, a recap:
The 1993 final  had the LA Kings winning game 1 and were leading by a goal late in [...]

Phil Wu is a Chinese fellow who grew up in Montreal but now lives in that hockey hotbed, China. That’s nice, but the problem with that is that Phil won’t be able to see his treasured Montreal Canadiens at the Bell Centre anymore.  I know the feeling. But I only live three thousand miles away. Phil lives about three [...]

 
My old friend Paul was a guitar player in clubs in Toronto for years. And not only is he a tremendous guitarist, but he’s also a big Habs fan. In fact, he painted his Telecaster red and put a nice Habs sticker on it because often at various clubs he was playing around Hogtown, Leaf players such [...]

 When I was twelve our Orillia peewee baseball team beat all comers, from little towns to big cities, and we won the all-Ontario championship. The following year, Orillia put on a Sports Celebrity dinner and our team and some successful minor hockey teams were invited and we accepted trophies and such from the celebrities –  like baseball legend Sal Maglie, hockey star [...]

 It needs to be said first. The Canadiens scored two goals in the final two minutes of the game, the last with 22 seconds left, to beat the Los Angeles Kings 4-3, and most importantly, ended their slightly-nightmarish four-game skid.
That was good. That was dramatic. That spells relief.
But Josh Gorges took a serious run-and- jump [...]

Don’t forget, both Montreal games this weekend are afternoon games. Los Angeles today and Boston tomorrow are 2pm EST starts, (11am Pacific) and it appears that both are on CBC and of course, RDS.
Don’t want anybody to miss the new Habs, the ones who are going to come storming out.

I had a real bad feeling after the Canadiens lost to Atlanta and then to New Jersey just before the All-Star break. Because then they’d  have to avoid losing to Tampa Bay not to become officially mired in a three-game losing slump.
But they did lose to the Tampa Bay Lightning, 5-3, and so, just like that, [...]

 It was announced a few days back that my old hometown arena in Orillia is on its last legs, and that its doors are now locked due to structural damage.
 It’s a sad thought for me, the idea that the old arena could be no more. But it’s 60 years old, built by volunteers after the [...]

The Buffalo Sabres beat Boston 4-2 in Boston today. This ends the Bruins’ ten-game winning streak. It’s so nice to see this over-achieving band of Beantown gangsters lose, and hopefully it’s the beginning of many more losses to come.
 
Also….Florida took it to Pittsburgh, winning 6-1 in Pittsburgh. Sidney Crosby was in a couple of fights, [...]

  When Wayne Gretzky retired, the entire league, every team, agreed the proper thing to do was to retire jersey no. 99 permanently so no other player would ever wear it.
 
This is absolutely reasonable. Gretzky deserves this honour. He was Gretzky, for goodness sakes.
 
But there’s another number out there that deserves the same royal treatment. [...]