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 [...]

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 [...]

A friend came up to me at work and said, “What d’ya think, four straight?” For who, I asked, Detroit? And he said no, Pittsburgh.
The more I thought about his prediction of four straight for Pittsburgh, the more I though he’d been smoking too much Texada Timewarp. I can see what he was thinking though, after Crosby and [...]

As a Montreal Canadiens fan living on Canada’s west coast, there are two teams I find myself paying strict attention to. And no, it’s neither the Pittsburgh Penguins nor the Washington Capitals, the two everyone’s talking about because they deserve to be talked about, with Alex Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby on display, with Evgeny Malkin, after [...]

The Hockey Barn asked me to write down my predictions for the opening round of the playoffs, and although predictions are for gypsies, as Toe Blake used to say, I’m giving it a shot.
Anything can happen come playoff time. Every team is just one small injury or one bouncing puck away from sinking like the Titanic. [...]

Sidney Crosby said recently that he grew up a Habs fan but he’s not one anymore. How can this be? Is it possible? Just because you play for another team, is that a good reason?

It was no contest tonight between the Montreal Canadiens and the Toronto Maple Leafs. No contest at all. In fact, it was almost like a Red-White scrimmage with the Red team coming out on top 6-2.
 
It could have been 10-2. Montreal had more chances to score than Casanova. And when you add the extra intigue [...]

I decided to check the New York papers to see what they might be saying there about the big up-and-coming game Wednesday night between the Rangers and the Habs.
 
The New York Post, the Daily News, and the New York Times didn’t mention a thing. Everything was about the Rangers beating Pittsburgh 4-0 the other night. So [...]

This is a letter sent to the Montreal Gazette from someone named Steve Bourgoin in Oneonto, NY, expressing his dismay at the lack of size down the centre for the Canadiens. Of course, in a perfect world, the Habs would have either Joe Thornton or Vincent Lecavalier, who both stand at 6′4″.
But we don’t.
 

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