Don’t blame me, blame Ron Green in Orillia. As I said a few days ago, I believe in karma and have been real good about keeping quiet about the Leafs since their infamous game 7 meltdown. I’m only showing this because Ron went to all the trouble of sending it. I’m innocent, hockey gods. You [...]

I’m afraid to say anything regarding the Leafs’ epic collapse against the Bruins in game seven. I’m a firm believer in karma, and I feel if I mention how the Leafs folded like a cheap suit, somehow the hockey gods will take note and give me royal payback sometime next season. So nuff said. The [...]

I’m in a good mood. A great mood. I feel like whistling. The sun is shining brightly, birds are singing, I had a good sleep, and my porridge tasted terrific. I hope you have a wonderful day too. You deserve it. I also hope the Ottawa Senators crash and burn and suck and get blown [...]

The Habs are gone, and for now……… No more P.K. Subban wheeling around and rushing like a man possessed, or blasting a missile from the point, or sailing across the ice, fired up, in the moment, to level an oncoming enemy. No more Brendan Gallagher crashing the net, standing firm as bigger opponents try to [...]

That’s that. Habs gone after five games, losing 6-1 to the Ottawa Senators, and now what are we supposed to do? Cheer for another team? It’s a game of inches, and if Colby Armstrong had hit the back of the net instead of the post on a shorthanded breakaway, the boys would have tied it [...]

Backs against the wall. It ain’t over till it’s over. One shift at a time. One game at a time. There’s no tomorrow. Pull out all the stops. Pedal to the metal. Do or die. It ain’t over till the fat lady sings. As P.K. Subban says, “We can beat these guys. We’re better.” And [...]

Brian Gionta has a torn bicep muscle, will undergo surgery on Friday, and that’s it for him. So Kevin Weekes was dead-on when he said recently on HNIC that this would happen. It’s the same sort of thing Gionta did last year. The team also said that Brandon Prust and Ryan White would sit out [...]

This was the goal that got Ottawa back in it. The guys in Toronto are probably at this very moment nursing hangovers. Too bad they couldn’t have waited until after the game before they got into the sauce. (Thanks to Beatnik for sending this clip).

This one hurts. Big time. It was going to be a big win and it slipped away. The Canadiens blew a 2-0 lead and lost in overtime 3-2. With Ottawa’s tying goal coming with the goalie pulled and just 23 seconds remaining on the clock. It caps a lousy day that began at 5 a.m. [...]

In this corner, wearing the blue, white, and red trunks, standing  5’11′ and weighing 197 lbs, from Montreal Quebec……. Michel (Mike) Therrien! And in the other corner, wearing some kind of pink frilly thing, standing 6 ft. and weighing 205 pounds, (or 190 clean shaven), from Grostenquin France and Antigonish, Nova Scotia,…….Paul (the Walrus) MacLean! [...]