Marc Bergevin says the the team is too small. Tomas Plekanec says it isn’t. I’ll settle this. They’re too small. But almost not. There are only two small guys on the Habs – Brian Gionta and David Desharnais, both standing at 5’7. They’re the two who make the team seem small. Without them, the subject [...]

Every ten years or so, my friend Gary in Ottawa sends me a box of gifts. Just out of the blue, and always quite fascinating. One came the other day, and included: A plastic alarm clock that looks like sticks of dynamite and which needs a battery. A cassette that’s seen better days and might [...]

Game day, with the boys in Pittsburgh to tackle the Penguins, a team that has several good players, although the names escape me just now. Peter Budaj gets the call, and that’s fine. He’s been a nice surprise this year. But the team in front of him has to show up. Unlike the last two [...]

Because there’s been talk of certain Canadiens possibly grabbing hardware at season’s end, I’ve wondered who else around the league might be in the thick of things in different categories, and how professional writers might view some of the Habs who have a shot. So it was interesting to see how Jim Jamieson of the [...]

It’s been a few days now since Sidney Crosby took a puck in the face in which he lost some teeth and had his jaw broken, and I’ve been thinking about it a fair amount since it happened. For one thing, with a couple of chicklets nestled on his jersey and the painful look on [...]

Saturday, and it’s wet out. There’s a reason why Powell River is so clean. Old Ma Nature likes to wash it. It’s also game day for the Habs, with the Penguins in town and no Evgeny Malkin to contend with. But of course there’s the kid from Cole Harbour who needs to be corralled. Sidney [...]

Alex Galchenyuk scored again on Sunday as his Sarnia Sting edged the Oshawa Generals 3-2, this coming a night after his three-goal showing in Peterborough, and so while I should have been working, instead I used the boss’s computer and calculator and came up this: (with the help of Miss Vicki, who seemed to know [...]

Hmm. LA beat Vancouver again, this time 4-2, and reports say close to 35,000 frantic Canucks’ fans are now lining up to jump off the Lions Gate bridge. Try not to hit any salmon please. Luci mentioned something about the poor fans in Vancouver, but this has never crossed my mind. What about us? In other news, New Jersey handled [...]

Twenty four games left for the Canadiens, beginning with Buffalo tonight. I’m tired of thinking that they’ll start winning next game, or the game after that. The curtain is closing and it’s time to show what they’re made of. Players going throught the motions tonight?  Hah! Anyone who doesn’t give their absolute all should be drawn and quartered. That [...]

The World Juniors are about to kick off on Boxing Day, and today I’m mentioning the 2009 tourney held in Ottawa because my friends JW and Heather in Ottawa were there and they gave me a set of their ticket stubs, which I thought was extremely nice. But they always have been a very kind and giving couple. Canada won gold [...]