Montreal signed two defencemen today with two different styles and two different sizes. Jaroslav Spacek moves over from Buffalo and is a 5′11, 200lb puck-moving impact defenceman who thrives on the power play. Habs also grabbed big Hal Gill, all 6′7″, 250 lbs of him, who comes from the Cup-winning Penguins.
Size we needed. Power play specialist [...]

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 [...]

Who had the better hair, these guys - Mario and Jaro?

Or these guys - 1966 Canadian band, The British Modbeats?

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 [...]

Geez, I start talking about how good Detroit looks, how much depth they have, blah blah blah, and in game four they look as ordinary as Montreal on most nights this season. So now the series is tied, Pittsburgh’s feeling good, and Detroit might not be as solid as I thought. We’ll see. The Wings needs Pavel Datsyuk back.

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 [...]