Everyone goes on and on about some of the beautiful wives and girlfriends of younger NHLers, and that’s nice. These women are all very lovely. Montreal’s Brandon Prust, for example, has a terrific lady. But what about the wives of some of the older guys? The senior citizens of the league are Teemu Selanne at [...]

On Friday, September 19, 1986, the Montreal Canadiens played an exhibition game against the Edmonton Oilers at the Ottawa Civic Centre.  I lived in Ottawa at the time but sometimes, as was the case here, real life gets in the way and I had to work and couldn’t go. Just like the time I had [...]

You’d have to think it’s quite odd for a GM to answer some punk’s question about getting tickets. Somehow I can’t see Pierre Gauthier or Brian Burke doing this, or any GM for that matter. It’s one last letter from the bunch I’d lost years ago and then found recently, and surprisingly, it came from Irving Grundman, who [...]

For the last eight Montreal Canadiens Stanley Cup wins, from 1971 to 1993, I managed to save the front pages and laminate them. (Although one, from 1977, is an inner page). This is part six – 1986 David Desharnais was born in 1986. Time marches on. Larry Robinson and Bob Gainey, both well past their [...]

Benoit Pouliot, whom I accused of being an underachiever just hours ago, scored the tying goal and then the sparkling shootout winner as the Habs edge the Pittsburgh Penguins 2-1 and grab two big points. They won the game, but they took the gravel road instead of the smooth and freshly paved one, and it appeared they were [...]

Another beauty sent over by Danno.

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 [...]

It’s certain the Montreal Canadiens of 1986 weren’t a dominant team in the league, or a great team like the Habs of other years. Heck, they weren’t even as good as several other teams in these playoffs. But they won the Stanley Cup and the rest didn’t. And they did it through a blend of old, new, and [...]

The way things are going, we may have Canadiens news every day until hockey season! Doug Jarvis, who was such an intelligent, hard-working defensive specialist as a player for Montreal between 1975 and 1981, and who was an assistant coach for the Habs from 2005 until now, has been fired. There’s been a lot of questions [...]