Jaroslav Halak stood on his head, stopping 45 shots, many of the very dangerous variety, and he and the Canadiens withstood the Vancouver Canucks to win 3-2 and in the process, clawed their way kicking and screaming back into the hearts of many Habs fans. At least for now.
And on top of everything, Sergei Kostityn [...]

There’s a huge storm running rampant through British Columbia’s south coast right now, including Powell River where I am. Huge winds are knocking down trees and scattering branches and leaves on the roads. Rain is falling , the Island ferry has cancelled its sailings, the cat’s scared and won’t eat, and outside noises kept me [...]

Rangers 6, Canadiens 2.
It was a game the Habs needed. A game they led 2-0. A game that would’ve catapulted them into seventh place ahead of New York.
Instead – six straight unanswered goals by the Blueshirts.
My wife sat with me on the couch and asked a simple question – What’s wrong with Montreal, and I can’t [...]

Please excuse the glue stains on the picture but it’s the only one I have that shows what I’m about to go on about.
As great as Doug Harvey was, and most agree it’s him and Bobby Orr as the best-ever on the blueline, he had one slightly daring habit that drove first coach Dick Irvin, and then Toe [...]

Eddie St. Pierre, retired columnist for the Moncton Times and Transcript, started writing sports in 1950 and over the years had many connections with the Montreal Canadiens. He shares some great stories here;
“During my long reporting career with this newspaper (I’ve just begun my 60th year of affiliation with the paper, having joined on [...]

A hundred years of heroes and dreams. A hundred years of men donning the sweater and taking to the ice.  A hundred years of kids watching and reading about, dreaming and becoming. From the time Didier Pitre took a pass from Jack Laviolette and slid it over to Newsy Lalonde, little boys donned the sweater, the bleu, blanc, [...]

The article below was written by an Ottawa freelance writer named Buzz Bourdon and appeared in the Ottawa Citizen in 2004. Someone had sent the clipping to me and I’d put it in a book and saved it because for some reason I felt it was worth holding on to. It’s the story of how Bourdon lost his [...]

Yes I know, you’ve probably seen this picture before. But I thought, hey, what the heck, I’m not going to get run over by a bus or have a curse inflicted upon me if I show it. So I’m showing it.
With all the talk about Jacques Plante and him finally putting the mask on after [...]

Montreal Mystique brings us a fascinating and lively audio interview with ex-Hab Rejean Houle. Houle talks about his first coach in the WHA – Jacques Plante, the WHA in general, Marc Tardif (“the best player in the league next to Bobby Hull”), the great Habs teams of the 1970’s, Patrick Roy, today’s team, and lots of other delicious [...]

Sadly, the Montreal Canadiens will not be challenging the 1979 Philadelphia Flyers’ astonishing record of going unbeaten in the first 35 games of the season. They were on their way, mind you, but got stalled at game three. One little game has screwed up the whole record-breaking process.
Montreal played a great game at the Saddledome in Calgary Tuesday night. Yes, [...]