Although I think Bob Gainey is an intelligent, thoughtful man, I’m here to set him straight.
Gainey says Canadien fans should be a patient bunch. Doesn’t he realize who he’s talking to here?
You want patience? We haven’t won the cup since 1993. That’s about a hundred years ago.
We’re not Toronto Maple Leafs fans, Bob. They haven’t seen [...]

Tom at the Ryan Coke Experience suggested I do this and I thought about it and decided it might be fun. He said I should watch games from the Montreal Canadiens Memorable Games 10 DVD set, and report on them like they were live and had just happened.
So, live, from the press box in 1960, the game.
LEAFS NO [...]

I’m on my way to the big hockey game tonight, which I’ll be reporting on later. I just hope traffic’s okay on the way down and it would be nice if the rain would let up. Regardless, it could be a historical night at the old barn.
That’s right, folks, the Stanley Cup playoffs are still [...]

Detroit Red Wings’ goalie Chris Osgood says he can hardly wait to have a beer because he hasn’t had one in two months because of the playoffs. I know exactly how he feels, only instead of playoffs, it’s graveyard shifts.
Is there any truth to the rumour that when Penguins’ star Evgeny Malkin was awarded the [...]

I suppose teams who win their Conference title may now have to re-think the old superstition about not touching the trophy. Pittsburgh proudly skated around with the Prince of Wales when they won the east a few weeks back, but Detroit wanted no part of the Clarence Campbell trophy because you just don’t do that. That’s the [...]

It’s always good when there’s a game seven in the Stanley Cup finals.  it makes players, owners, program sellers, hot dog vendors, and Gary Bettman very happy. Seven games means money for some, honour and jubilation for others. Seven games means jitters for players and fans of the teams involved. And at seven games, wives and non-fans across Canada [...]

Between periods of game six of the Penguins-Wings game, they showed Pittsburgh goalie Marc-Andre Fleury walking in to the Mellon Arena before the game dressed to the nines in a really nice suit, wearing a stupid baseball hat backwards. Why would that be? Is it just me, or are backward baseball hats a couple of years [...]

There’s only one way to calm a smiling, happy, confident, bright-eyed team like the Pittsburgh Penguins. Demolish them in your home rink, which is what the Detroit Red Wings did Saturday night, thrashing the flightless birds 5-0, thereby wiping the collective smiles off the Penguins faces in impressive fashion.
Who knew? The stars were aligning quickly in [...]

The worst possible thing to happen in a Stanley Cup finals is to see a sweep. It’s not good for hockey. It’s the last thing the league wants to happen. That’s why it’s great that Pittsburgh beat Detroit in game three to make the series a much more interesting two games to one for Motor City.
The [...]

They don’t even need Gordie Howe and Terry Sawchuk. It’s now two games to none for the Detroit Red Wings.
 
What’s this about parity in the NHL? That’s what the spin doctors say. They tell us the league is so evenly-matched now that any team can beat any other team on most nights. Maybe that’s the case during the long, drawn-out [...]