I listened to an interesting piece on CBC radio while driving home from work yesterday, about Ligue Nord-Americaine De Hockey (LNAH), a Quebec semi-pro league featuring teams from Trois-Rivieres, Sorel, Thetford Mines, Jonquiere, Riviere-Du-Loup, Saint-Georges, and new this season, Cornwall, from across the border in Ontario. It’s similar in some ways to serious senior hockey, [...]

Tampa Bay scored three times in 85 seconds of the first frame and good old Marc-Andre Bergeron tallied a power play goal later on as the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Boston Bruins 5-2 in game one of the Eastern Conference Final. Those Lightning….holy smokes. They just keep on rolling. Now it’s time to take game two also. [...]

Because I lost several billion brain cells during the 1960′s, I can’t figure this one out but maybe you can help. The Canadiens have said goodbye to Glen Metropolit, Dominic Moore, Paul Mara, and Marc-Andre Bergeron because there’s only so much cap space left, which is 5.6 million. Gauthier is now working on trying to get [...]

It must be a fairly depressing time for players who remain unsigned with their team and their chances of staying in the city they’ve kind of gotten to know are remote at best. Glen Metropolit, Marc-Andre Bergeron, and Dominic Moore are in sort of no-man’s land right now, the Canadiens don’t seem interested any more, mostly [...]

American-born defenceman Kyle Klubertanz has signed a one-year deal with the Habs and this probably isn’t the most exciting signing Montreal has ever done. With apologies to Klubertanz. Klubertanz, 24, played last season in Djurgardens of the Swedish Elite League where he tallied 31 points in 55 games. Before that he played a season in [...]

“The boys are going to be just fine, they’ll get it done tonight,” said a very confident assistant coach Kirk Muller, and I believed him. Every word. I had this inner peace after listening to him. This kind of thing is said by every coach before every game, but the way Muller said it was [...]

When you look at the score sheet from the previous game and the Habs listed on it, you see one offensive star – Brian Gionta, and the rest are the grinders, plumbers and journeymen of the team. It’s a beautiful thing. Now, if we can just get all four lines on the score sheet, Pittsburgh wouldn’t [...]

Somehow, when we were least expecting it, the Montreal Canadiens became a playoff team. And very soon, they’ll make believers of everyone. It hasn’t happened yet, but it will. All the team has to do is keep doing what they’re doing, and that’s winning. Gary Bettman and NBC are sick to their stomachs, but Habs fans are [...]

Not many gave them a chance, these Montreal Canadiens. Studio analysts laughed and smirked at the mere thought of it. There was no way the Habs, a team who had just squeaked into the playoffs by the skin of their teeth, were going to stop the mighty Washington Capitals, who most thought would go all the way [...]

The original title was going to be “Habs Crush Washington in Game 5″ which was the title of the piece I was writing in my new movie/YouTube Masterpiece, but this 2-1 Montreal win was anything but crushing. It was a big squeaker, but it was a win – a gigantic, beautiful, heart-stopping victory that sends the thing back to [...]