“You always wonder whether guys are ready to pay the price in games like these. You wonder and then you’re afraid maybe a few of the guys won’t or can’t go higher and farther, and that could be enough to hurt you.”
So said then-forward and now assistant coach Kirk Muller after his team had defeated the [...]
May 29, 2010 in Buffalo Sabres, Jaroslav Halak, Los Angeles Kings, Montreal Canadiens, NHL playoffs, New York Islanders, Patrick Roy, Phoenix Coyotes
Tags: Brian Bellows, Eric Desjardins, Guy Carbonneau, Jacques Demers, John LeClair, Kelly Hrudey, Kirk Muller, Mary McSorley, Mathieu Schneider, Patrick Roy, Red Fisher, Vincent Damphousse, Wayne Gretzky | 2 Comments »
Tony Gallagher in the Vancouver Province tells us some very interesting information regarding the 1993 Marty McSorley stick-measuring incident that changed the momentum for the Habs, who then went on to take series and win the Stanley Cup.
First, a recap:
The 1993 final had the LA Kings winning game 1 and were leading by a goal late in [...]
November 7, 2009 in Los Angeles Kings, Montreal Canadiens, NHL playoffs
Tags: 1993 Stanley Cup, Habs, Jacques Demers, LA Kings, Luc Robitaille, Marty McSorley stick measuring, Tony Gallagher, Vancouver Province | 17 Comments »
Jacques Demers will be pulling in $130,400 a year as senator in the Canadian Senate. And other than the fact it’s a job for his spare time when he’s not being the Howie Meeker of RDS televised Habs games, and aside from the $130,400, which isn’t chump change, the job probably sucks.
You only have to show up a [...]
August 28, 2009 in Montreal Canadiens
Tags: Canadian Senate, Habs, Howie Meeker, Jacques Demers, Montreal Canadiens, RDS | Comments Off
He couldn’t read or write throughout most of his life, and now Jacques Demers, ex-coach of the Habs, the one who led the team to a Stanley Cup in 1993, is about to be appointed to the Senate in Ottawa. Is that an inspiring story or what?
Demers isn’t the first ex-Hab to become a senator. Frank [...]
August 27, 2009 in Guy Lafleur, Montreal Canadiens
Tags: 1993 Stanley Cup. Habs, Frank Mahovlich, Guy Lafleur, Jacques Demers, Stephen Harper | 24 Comments »
Fourteen years ago, Montreal defenceman Bryan Fogarty was in the doghouse of coach Jacques Demers for failing to notify team officials until the morning of a game in Hartford that he had the flu, leaving the Canadiens with only five defencemen. Then, during a team meeting, he was caught reading a newspaper.
Something like this could [...]
July 6, 2009 in Montreal Canadiens, Pittsburgh Penguins
Tags: alcoholic hockey players, Bobby Orr, Bryan Fogarty, Denis Potvin, Habs, Jacques Demers, Quebec Nordiques | 6 Comments »
What the hell’s going on? It’s been more than ten days now, and not one bit of malicious, nutty, silly, dangerous, disturbing, crazy, possibly true, rumour mill madness from the Canadiens’ camp.
Oh, RDS is saying that Larry Robinson might be interested in the coaching job, but that’s pretty well it. I don’t get it. There’s [...]
May 2, 2009 in Carey Price, Montreal Canadiens
Tags: Carey Price, Habs, Jacques Demers, Larry Robinson, Mathieu Schneider, RDS | No Comments »
Because I’m not all that proficient in the French language (I wish I was), I can’t really understand a lot of the chatter that goes on during Canadiens games on RDS, especially between periods.
So I’m left wondering about the RDS team that does the games. It seems to me that Pierre Houde is as good [...]
February 4, 2009 in Montreal Canadiens
Tags: Benoit Brunet, Don Cherry, Jacques Demers, Pierre Houde, RDS | 12 Comments »
For some reason, Jean Beliveau has always got it. He understands his fans. Maybe Jean had his own heroes, and maybe he met them and they treated him right, and he learned from them. Or maybe he met his heroes and they treated him wrong, and he learned from them also.
Most NHL players, or for that matter, [...]
October 7, 2008 in Aurele Joliat, Jean Beliveau, Montreal Canadiens, Patrick Roy
Tags: athletes, Aurele Joliat, autographs, Bill Durnan, Colorado Avalanche, Doug Jarvis, Guy Lapointe, Habs, Hamilton, hockey, Jacques Demers, Jean Beliveau, Mario Tremblay, Montreal Canadiens, NHL, Patrick Roy, Pickering, Stanley Cup 1993 | 14 Comments »
Unlike the caller to the Montreal radio station who went on about “I believe” regarding the Montreal Canadiens, (which became a revival meeting chant which turned into an “I believe” website), I knew armageddon was coming. I could feel it when the Habs blew a three goal lead to the Rangers last week and lost 5-3. [...]
February 10, 2008 in Montreal Canadiens
Tags: Alex Kovalev, Andrei Kostitsyn, Carey Price, Chris Higgins, Cristobal Huet, Daniel Alfredsson, Dany Heatley, G. Latendresse, Gentleman Oldtimers, Guy Carbonneau, Jacques Demers, Jason Spezza, Michael Ryder, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, Ottawa Senators, Powell River, Saku Koivu, Tomas Plekanec | 6 Comments »