There goes 2012. Maybe it’s a good thing. The Habs were disturbingly mediocre in 2012, finishing 15/15 in the Eastern Division, one point behind 14th place Islanders and two behind the Leafs. I still feel nauseous. Along the way, Hal Gill and Andrei Kostitysn were shipped to Nashville and I miss Hal. The other guy – not so [...]

I told my wife about the Andrei Kostitsyn thing, and she offered her thoughts. “Don’t trade him, but Jacques Martin should say to him, you want the first line, you’ve got the first line. But if you suck I don’t want to hear any more crying.”  

After three dismal games in which the Habs were shut down with zeros across the board, they came out Tuesday night against the Atlanta Thrashers and finally scored not once but three times, beating the visitors 3-1 and ending for now, misery of extreme proportions in Habsland. One thing that has always remained constant for me [...]

Montreal, normally a low-scoring team, scored six big ones against the Boston Bruins Wednesday night. Unfortunately, the Boston Bruins scored eight. That wasn’t a 2011 hockey game, it was a Habs-Bruins tilt from the 1970′s, a Habs-Nordiques battle from the 1980′s, a senior game from small-town Canada. It was scoring, hitting, and fighting throughout, including a weird goaltending [...]

Erik Cole might want to think twice next time about ramming a guy’s face into the top of the boards. The Habs took advantage of Cole’s five minute major after the Hurricanes veteran tried to remove Jaroslav Spacek’s face on the top of the boards, Canadiens scored the tying goal and then the winner on the power play, [...]

Carey Price did his best imitation of a brick wall as he notched his second shutout of the year in a fine 2-0 win over the visiting Vancouver Canucks. The Canuckovovians, try as they may, couldn’t solve Price in what was possibly the young goalie’s most solid display of the year, and it’s a good thing he [...]

He flew through the air like Bobby Orr, and although it wasn’t a Stanley Cup-winner, it sure as heck makes a Habs fan happy after a reasonably unremarkable night at the Bell Centre. Thanks a lot, Andre Kostitsyn, for your overtime winner. But a little bit less thanks to the Montreal Canadiens in general for being a kind and [...]

Those wild and crazy Habs. They come off a lackluster 3-0 loss to the New Jersey Devils and two nights later play a fine game in Ottawa, skating away with a 3-0 win. How often do we get to talk about a shutout from Carey Price? Or a goal from Benoit Pouliot? Or two great [...]

The Canadiens win their second in two nights, and look out Toronto Maple Leafs, we’re coming. Tonight it was the Ottawa Senators, with absolutely no help from Alex Kovalev, who fall to the Habs, and when you look at Montreal’s five games so far, only one was where they didn’t gain any points. So how can [...]

  Slip, sliding away. Slipped, slid away. At the risk of sounding like a whiner, did PK Subban really deserve a slashing penalty with just over two minutes to go in the game? Maybe my television’s not big enough, heck it’s only a 52 inch job, but even in the replay I didn’t see what [...]