Maybe there really is something to what was first reported a month ago, on Jan. 11th. in the Gazette, when Erik Cole said he might be retiring sooner than expected Cole Says This Could Be his Last. And although, as Montreal radio host Mitch Melnick has pointed out in a recent piece, Cole is a [...]

I thought now is as good a time as any to bring back the terrific breakdown of first-round draft picks for all teams beginning in 2001 that Ron Schwartz put together last February. I posted it then and I think I’d like to do it again. Ron Schwartz at Silver Oak Blog has put together a [...]

Nice that the Islanders won their game against Pittsburgh. We want the bottom all to ourselves. The Canadiens did what they do best. A blown lead in the third period, couldn’t get it done in overtime, and then a loss in the shootout. What do they say? It’s like deju vu all over again? Florida beats [...]

A fun and exciting game at the Bell Centre Saturday night, and with the Canadiens falling 3-2 to the New York Islanders in a shootout, they still get that lousy loser point, and we don’t want points. Not if they’re going to lose. Not with some highly-ranked young stud waiting to be plucked from the draft [...]

Danno in Ottawa came across these brochures (below) for Jacques Martin’s hockey school in Rigaud and Hawkesbury. For just $425 for a 5 day session, you can learn from Jacques and return to your team in the fall new and improved and ready to go. Jacques bills himself as head coach of the Montreal Canadiens so [...]

Ron Schwartz at Silver Oak Blog has put together a nice look into NHL draft first-round picks since 2001, showing charts and graphs, and he breaks down every first-rounder from every team and where they’re playing now. He gives us the distribution of each position, shows a world map of where they’ve all come from, and it’s a nice job and [...]

The Canadiens drop a 4-3 decision to the visiting Philadelphia Flyers, but it was a game to be had for the home team. If they had any kind of power play. One goal on nine power play attempts. Is that lousy or what? Tomas Kaberle may have been brought in to improve this feeble man-advantage problem [...]

Finally, the first stage of setting the wheels in motion for kicking off the new season. Rookie camp, where kids strut their stuff, show what they’re made of, and then are shipped off to old and new junior and minor league teams throughout the land. And every so often, someone impresses the heck out of everybody, [...]

Although the Czech junior squad opened the scoring, it was only after Canada’s Zack Kassian sent Czech Petr Senkerik off on a stretcher with a clean hit that the floodgates opened, and opened wide. Montreal blue chip prospect Louis Leblanc scored a shorthanded goal to make the score 3-1 Canada, and that’s all she wrote [...]

I can hear them now. Everyone who said keeping Carey Price was a mistake. The smugness dripping with smugness. The “I told you so’s” surely ringing throughout the land. We’ve been waiting all summer for this first (albeit preseason) game, not only because we missed hockey and the Habs, but also to see how Carey Price would [...]