The master plan is about to stage its final chapter.
And the master plan is this: Suck for almost 70 games and then don’t suck for the last few.
Keep reasonably close to a playoff spot while sucking, and then put the hammer down when there’s just enough time to do it.
Suffer through so many injuries that Montreal city [...]

I have to get these in because first of all, they’re amazingly beautiful. Secondly, they came out in the Boston Globe. And thirdly, the first picture is where I work, and I was working that morning when the torch went through.
Yes, yes, I know. This is a Habs blog. So I’ll just say this; almost [...]

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For most of my life I watched hockey games in the east at what I thought was an absolutely normal time – 7 or 7:30 in the evening. 
Then I moved out west and now the games are on at 4 or 4:30. And this seems absolutely normal.
Now, with the Habs in California, these 7 and [...]

Quote of the day comes from Canucks coach Alain Vigneault in the Vancouver Province regarding Ryan Kessler and Patrick Kane playing against each other now that they’ve become friends from the US Olympic team.
“Not a chance,”  Vigneault said when asked if Kessler might not play hard against his new buddy. ”Kes doesn’t like Canadians, he doesn’t [...]

Eighteen million Canadians watched the Olympic gold medal game on Sunday.
That left one million who were so drunk they forgot they watched it, one million who protested the Olympics and decided to drink beer in bars that coincidently had the game on, two million who napped but somehow kept one eye open, 27 employees of [...]

Medvedev Fumes Over Russian Team’s Showing
The New York Times
By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ
Published: March 1, 2010
MOSCOW — The Olympic flame in Vancouver had barely been doused before President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia, angered over his country’s disappointing performance at the Winter Games, began calling for athletic officials’ heads.
“Those who are responsible for [...]

 
Okay Canada, you can exhale now.
While Alex Ovechkin sat back and watched on TV, if he watched at all, with his Russian team long gone from any Olympic action, the superstar’s main counterpart as hockey’s greatest player, Sidney Crosby, scored in overtime to give Canada the gold medal over a tough Brian Burke-built American squad [...]

Medals are coming up so fast and furious for Canadian athletes in the past day that I’m having trouble keeping up. I have to sleep and pee sometimes. And feed the cat. Christ, I had to lay some flooring today. How am my suppose to be on top of things?
Anyway, fantastic that our Canadians have [...]

It was game eight of the 1972 Canada-Russia Summit Series, and the Canadians were having trouble understanding some of the actions of the on-ice officials, Rudy Bata and Josef Kompalla. There had been referee problems since they had played the Swedes in Stockholm before the Moscow games, and now, JP Parise had no idea why Kompalla [...]