It was easy to be a fan of Bob Gainey when he played because he seemed to do everything right, in a blue-collar kind of way. He wasn’t flashy like teammates Guy Lafleur or Yvan Cournoyer, but he was an all-important piece of the puzzle on the world’s greatest team in the latter part of [...]

This is my passport photo taken when I was 17. If you look closely you can see pimples.
I was getting ready to go on a big trip, which ultimately would cause me to miss almost the entire Montreal Canadiens 1968-69 season including playoffs. I’m unable to talk about Rogie Vachon and Gump Worsley in [...]

Eddie St. Pierre, retired columnist for the Moncton Times and Transcript, started writing sports in 1950 and over the years had many connections with the Montreal Canadiens. He shares some great stories here;
“During my long reporting career with this newspaper (I’ve just begun my 60th year of affiliation with the paper, having joined on [...]

Guy Carbonneau has a new gig answering email questions for the CBC. There are five questions here from readers, and at the end I’ll ask a few of my own.
Five questions: Olympic overkill, centennial hangover?
December 10, 2009 01:14 PM | Posted by   Guy Carbonneau

Here’s how it works. You submit a question [...]

The article below was written by an Ottawa freelance writer named Buzz Bourdon and appeared in the Ottawa Citizen in 2004. Someone had sent the clipping to me and I’d put it in a book and saved it because for some reason I felt it was worth holding on to. It’s the story of how Bourdon lost his [...]

Montreal Mystique brings us a fascinating and lively audio interview with ex-Hab Rejean Houle. Houle talks about his first coach in the WHA – Jacques Plante, the WHA in general, Marc Tardif (“the best player in the league next to Bobby Hull”), the great Habs teams of the 1970’s, Patrick Roy, today’s team, and lots of other delicious [...]