Yes, it’s true. Number 99 was a Hab. Actually, there were three number 99′s  in Montreal – Joe Lamb, Desse Roche, and Leo Bourgault, who all played in the same season, 1934-35. So when you hear that nobody did it like number 99, maybe they meant Joe Lamb, not Wayne Gretzky!

It was probably somewhere around the end of the first period of the Habs-Leafs game when I became finally convinced that the Canadiens need to be blown up and started almost from scratch again. It was such a pathetic sight. They actually made the Leafs look like one of the greatest teams in the history of hockey. [...]

You may have read Jim before. He’s had it up to here with shootouts. He comments regularly on the state of the game and how it could be fixed. And beginning now, in three installments, he sets his sights on possibly the only person more opinionated than himself, Don Cherry.                                                                                                                                                                                                       WHY DON? I:  POOFING DON  Should [...]

On Tuesday, a new man enters the world stage. Americans are hopeful, optimistic, and excited. It’s the dawning of a new age, a historic age, and people everywhere feel they have found their saviour.  Yes, that’s right. Claude Lemieux has been called up by the San Jose Sharks.

Just so you know.

The Buffalo Sabres beat Boston 4-2 in Boston today. This ends the Bruins’ ten-game winning streak. It’s so nice to see this over-achieving band of Beantown gangsters lose, and hopefully it’s the beginning of many more losses to come.   Also….Florida took it to Pittsburgh, winning 6-1 in Pittsburgh. Sidney Crosby was in a couple [...]

Have you ever wondered how they change the floor quickly between a basketball game and a hockey game?   The cement floor has a bunch of freezer tubes of ethylene glycol (antifreeze). To make the rink, the floor is cooled to zero degrees. An eighth of an inch of water is then sprayed on and [...]

The young boy in the middle, in his steet clothes, is Leo Brosseau. Leo grew up in Quebec in the 1930′s and ’40′s before moving west to Powell River to work in the mill and marry a local girl. He’s been here ever since.   He wasn’t able to play with his team for a while because of [...]

On paper it was a solid 3-2 road win for the Canadiens. But in reality, they got through by the skin of their teeth against a dangerous Pittsburgh team led by Sidney Crosby and Evgeny Malkin, of course.   But no matter. A win is a win is a win. And anytime you see Carey [...]

The second season is about to begin and it’s where men are separated from boys. It’s where the Habs will begin to mount their serious climb up the summit. But a lot of it is up to us. We need to know how to watch and cheer against certain teams. It’s crucial that we send out good vibrations [...]