Travis Moen is the newest Canadien, bringing his six foot, two inch, 215 pound frame to the left wing, thereby making Montreal even better, and tougher. Moen was in San Jose, so he and Saku, who is on his way to Anaheim, may pass each other somewhere around Des Moines.
More and more, the team is shaping [...]

The Canadiens have added a real nice defenceman by signing big, strong ten-year veteran Paul Mara to the lineup. The 6′4′, 212 lb. Mara comes from the Rangers, and has also played previously with Tampa Bay, Phoenix, and Boston.
It’s nice to see some good size added (along with Hal Gill), and Mara’s the perfect age [...]

This beautiful piece of art measuring more than two feet by three feet, was originally in a Quebec school in the 1940’s. It was used, along with other outdoor scenes, as part of student essays or copying or whatever it was they did with it in class. It’s now framed and sits proudly in my living room, and [...]

Would it be wrong to suggest that the twelve best hockey players to come out of Quebec are, in no particular order, Maurice Richard, Jean Beliveau, Mike Bossy, Patrick Roy, Doug Harvey, Henri Richard, Jacques Plante, Guy Lafleur, Ray Bourque, Marcel Dionne, Mario Lemieux…..
 And of course, Gaston LeBois?

Saku Koivu has signed with the Anaheim Ducks for one year, $3.25 million clams.
That’s it, the curtain has fallen. Now can we get down to business with the team we have now?
Time to move on. We’ve got a cup to win.

Everything’s been written about Alex Kovalev now. It’s pretty well all been said. But Kovalev going to the Senators is still big news and I can’t just drop the subject and move on. So I have to resort to pulling out an old Russian hockey card.
    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
And what about Saku? No one wants him to go, [...]

Sacre bleu du buildings du Parliament, merde, tabernac. Alex Kovalev is now an Ottawa Senator, signing for a paltry ten million for two years.
What does this mean?
It means we’re going to see Kovy within our division. And it means we’re going to see Kovy lose often. And it’s kind of like seeing your daughter marry the local wino.
Will [...]

Fourteen years ago, Montreal defenceman Bryan Fogarty was in the doghouse of coach Jacques Demers for failing to notify team officials until the morning of a game in Hartford that he had the flu, leaving the Canadiens with only five defencemen. Then, during a team meeting, he was caught reading a newspaper.
Something like this could [...]

Forget for awhile about signings and non-signings and Saku Koivu and Alex Kovalev. It’s all too much on this lovely weekend. Now is the time to celebrate. Because in one area of Habsdom, we are champions of the world!
Okay, so it’s not the Montreal Canadiens winning the Stanley Cup, or any of the Habs players [...]

Indeed it’s sad when a good warrior and captain such as Saku Koivu is finished as a Montreal Canadien and will carry on elsewhere. We all loved and appreciated what he did for the team and city as a great player and a man who gave his time and money to hospitals and sick kids and other organizations.
But I [...]