It’s been clearly explained to me (thanks Tom), and it becomes this: Ottawa and Boston play each other tonight, and if Ottawa wins, the Habs play Ottawa. If Boston wins, the Habs play Toronto. So this means I’ll be cheering for………..not sure. Montreal managed two wins and two losses against the Sens this season, and [...]

Danno sends over the news that NHL.com has Michel Therrien as the odds-on favourite for the Jack Adams Trophy as coach of the year. Chicago’s Joel Quenneville and Ottawa’s Paul MacLean are the runners up. You can see it here. Quenneville had his club on that massive unbeaten streak, earning at least a point in [...]

I really like the city of Ottawa. I lived there for 17 years, all over the place, and I became a real Ottawan. There was that apartment on Carling near Britannia and the one downtown on Gloucester St. There was the high rise on Alta Vista, the place on Morrisette, that other place on Meadowlands, [...]

Just want to quickly mention that it’s terrible to see Ottawa’s young, sensational defenceman Erik Karlsson gone for the season after a Matt Cooke skate blade cut his Achilles tendon in his left ankle. I suppose we can’t know exactly, especially if he denies it till the cows come home, but to me it sure [...]

It’s just so great that with the lockout ending, we no longer have to hear and read about million dollar differences and rich people disagreeing with rich people. I’m just glad it’s over. Oh wait a minute. It’s not. P.K. Subban hasn’t signed with the Habs yet, and reading Dave Stubb’s piece in the Gazette [...]

  What rivals the Academy Awards, Grammys, Emmys, and Golden Globe Awards? Not the NHL Awards Show, that’s for sure. Tonight’s the night we see players wearing uncomfortable tuxedos and their women beaming proudly. We see awkward speeches, hopefully some seriously low cleavage in the audience, and no Scott Gomez anywhere. We’ve also seen Ron McLean [...]