Normally I would have put this picture up just before the Canadiens and Leafs prepared for battle.
But they don’t play each other until March 21 so this plan just flew out the window.
Thanks to my old friend Bruce, a guy who has had only one haircut in the last twenty-five years, for sending this.

Remember that Habs vote blog-off at http://thenhlarena.com/ that went on for several weeks? It began with 17 Habs blogs one could vote for, then it became 9, and then 3.
I won it.
I’ve no idea what it means. But thank you if you voted, and also a big hip, hip hooray to Daily Hab-it and Four Habs Fans who [...]

A brand new website out of New York called http://www.stalkingstevephillips.com/, which concentrates on different sports including hockey, has come up with what they feel are the top ten worst hockey movies of all time. It’s a good list, but what about the 1930’s “King of Hockey” where the hero waves to his girlfriend for about ten [...]

I guess I’ll be shameless and pitiful.  This Habs blog vote which is now going on and which I’ve found myself in the final three, ends on Sunday. So I need votes because although it doesn’t mean much in the grand scheme of things and is silly in many ways because there’s a lot of great [...]

In the beginning it looked so fine. The Canadiens were outshooting Ottawa and outscoring them 2-0. Jaroslav Halak was once again solid in goal. The Habs new line of Scott Gomez, Benoit Pouliot, and the welcomed sight of returning warrior Brian Gionta, showed some nice, natural chemistry and the three caused havoc in the Senators [...]

I’m going to the annual Grey Cup party which is held at different people’s houses every year, where I’ll have a couple of beer and lose my usual 30 bucks because for some reason, God doesn’t think I should have money.
Anyway, because this is the west coast, everyone at the annual party always hopes for [...]

But what the hell are you doing visiting family and eating turkey when you should be reading this?

The Topps Company has sent me this little bit of info regarding their new promotion with hockey cards. I agreed to relay it to you because hockey cards were such a big part of my youth http://dennis-kane.com/i-threw-it-all-away-at-a-hard-brick-wall/, and I hope today’s kids embrace cards the way we did as kids. These little cardboard pictures create memories that [...]

Extremely interesting story involving Chris Chelios and the NHL Players Association. Good old-fashoined spy stuff.
Thanks to Mike for sending me this.
Ian Penny’s letter to the NHLPA
CBC Sports
30/10/2009 3:25:06 PM
This is a letter written by Ian Penny, former interim executive director of the NHLPA on October 23, 2009 to the organization’s player executive board. It details [...]

It feels strange after all these months to be writing about an actual game again. And it feels even stranger writing about a game I didn’t see or hear. But Mike Boone at Habs Inside/Out had the live blog going, so I have some sort of idea how the thing played out.
And it played out just fine, sort [...]