Kyle Chipchura has been traded to the Anaheim Ducks for a 4th round draft pick in 2011.
I say the Canadiens won this deal. The fourth-rounder, whoever he may be, already has just as many points as Chipchura had over 19 games. And that’s zero. Chipchura, getting more ice time than he probably deserved, tallied no [...]

Saku Koivu had this to say recently about the difference in closeness between his new team, the Anaheim Ducks, and his old. “It’s more of a tighter feeling than in Montreal.”
And that says a lot. Because if it’s true, that the Canadiens weren’t a close group, then no wonder they lost big and looked dismal while [...]

Phil Wu is a Chinese fellow who grew up in Montreal but now lives in that hockey hotbed, China. That’s nice, but the problem with that is that Phil won’t be able to see his treasured Montreal Canadiens at the Bell Centre anymore.  I know the feeling. But I only live three thousand miles away. Phil lives about three [...]

I was in Wal-Mart in Courtenay the other day and while waiting for a prescription, decided to stroll around because Wal-Mart is a good people-watching place and an excellent store to witness nagging wives berate their poor, broken husbands about how they need more good towels because he wrecked the last ones checking the oil in their 1983 [...]

 
Ring…….
 
Office of the schedule maker. Good morning.
 
Hello, this is Mr. Bettman. I need to speak to the schedule maker.
 
Speaking.
 
Yes, schedule maker. We have a problem. I’m sure you’re aware that there’s a few good Canadian teams up there, especially the Montreal Canadiens, and I’m sure you’re aware of what that means. Can you imagine a Canadian [...]

At least Ottawa lost, so that’s good.  But then again, Toronto won. So that cancels out the good part.
 
Oh, and there was a game at the Bell Centre.
 
Chalk that one up to one of those nights, forget about it, and move on. Because nights like this, a lousy 6-4 loss to the Ducks, are gonna happen. It’s a long season.
 
We just [...]

Hockey items you could discuss with your friends after five or six beer:
 
The Philadelphia Flyers have sent Steve Downey down to their AHL affiliate, the Philadelphia Phantoms.
Players around the NHL now stand a much better chance of not having their skulls cracked. AHL players, however, are putting extra padding in their helmets and have told their [...]

Buying one of those PVR digital boxes (the thing that allows you to pause live TV, among other things) for my TV and subscribing to RDS French network for three bucks a month was one of the best things I’ve ever done.
 
Because now I may never miss another Habs game.
 
And Monday night, If I didn’t have RDS, I [...]

Pittsburgh doesn’t worry me. Either does Boston, or Buffalo, or Tampa Bay, or the Rangers. Calgary doesn’t worry me, or Dallas, Anaheim, Vancouver, and Colorado.
 
In fact, no team worries me about getting in the way of Montreal’s big season. Except Detroit. They worry me. Not a lot, mind you. Montreal will take out any team. This [...]

You’d think that Brian Burke had come home one night and found Kevin Lowe in bed with his wife.
 
Talk about holding a grudge. It’s been a year now, and Burke, GM for the Anaheim Ducks, has hurled nothing but vindictive poison at Lowe, GM of the Oilers. Burke has behaved like a kid in a [...]