The Canadiens tackle the Devils in Newark tonight and will be without Michael Ryder (lower body injury), along with the usual guys, Rene Bourque, Raphael Diaz, and Brandon Prust. Big Jarred Tinordi will play his first-ever NHL game, which must be an awesome feeling. In my next life, I want this feeling. As has been [...]

Everyone goes on and on about some of the beautiful wives and girlfriends of younger NHLers, and that’s nice. These women are all very lovely. Montreal’s Brandon Prust, for example, has a terrific lady. But what about the wives of some of the older guys? The senior citizens of the league are Teemu Selanne at [...]

Isn’t it fun when you see an honest, hard-working, hard-skating team like we’ve seen so far from this year’s edition of the Montreal Canadiens? (Aside from the opening night loss to the Leafs). Another four-goal game from the Habs, their third in a row, with this going to overtime and none other than Andrei Markov [...]

The New Jersey Devils edged Los Angeles 2-1 in a feisty and puck-bouncing game five, with pucks rattling off goal posts, sticks slicing people’s faces, and Martin Brodeur being great and also lucky. So the series continues, with L.A. now holding a slight 3-2 game advantage, and feeling not quite as good about themselves as they were a couple [...]

We could say New Jersey’s 4th goal, the winner, should never have happened because Erik Cole was held and stripped of the puck, but what the hell. It was just another in a long list of ways the Canadiens have blown leads and blown games. They do a wonderful impression of Linda Lovelace, however. Not that [...]

What do you expect when the Canadiens play the New Jersey Devils in New Jersey? You expect a tight, low-scoring game. And if you’re a Habs fan, you expect a win of course. Which is what happened on this Saturday night in early April as the Montreal boys, led by Mathieu Darche with two goals, [...]

Canadiens fall 4-1 to the New Jersey Devils and it’s simply a reminder that no team wins every game. This one would have been nice, though. They could’ve caught the Bruins. Poop. The Habs played fine after they shook the mysterious cobwebs from their legs after the first period. They had their chances, and they [...]

Nice to see a 5-1 game for a change. Even though though the Devils didn’t have their usual Habs-killer - Martin Brodeur in nets, and were also missing their best player, Zach Parise. But we were also without Andrei Markov, and PK Subban was having a rest, and it’s a win we’ll take. Gladly. A loss [...]

This was the team with four losses in five games. The team with cap problems which on some nights was forced to ice less skaters than it should. This was the team that shut out the Montreal Canadiens 3-0 on Thursday night. My wife mentioned to me during this sad-fest that the Devils’ goalie was both lucky [...]

A little dig at Jose Theodore on YouTube, sent over by Danno. Funny stuff.