Andrei Markov has been announced as Montreal’s nomination for the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy, given each year to a player who best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship, and dedication. This means that the cabinet space the Vezina was going to take up could now be used for the Masterton! You see how things work [...]

Are you strong enough to sit through these? Can your heart take it? You’ve been warned. Chernoble Diaries A group of wholesome American students visit Chernoble twenty-five years after the deadly meltdown, and find themselves stuck in the god-forsaken place when their car battery somehow becomes dead. Horror ensues as a hideous half-man, half-monster, created [...]

It’s been a few days now since Sidney Crosby took a puck in the face in which he lost some teeth and had his jaw broken, and I’ve been thinking about it a fair amount since it happened. For one thing, with a couple of chicklets nestled on his jersey and the painful look on [...]

Saturday, and it’s wet out. There’s a reason why Powell River is so clean. Old Ma Nature likes to wash it. It’s also game day for the Habs, with the Penguins in town and no Evgeny Malkin to contend with. But of course there’s the kid from Cole Harbour who needs to be corralled. Sidney [...]

Just want to quickly mention that it’s terrible to see Ottawa’s young, sensational defenceman Erik Karlsson gone for the season after a Matt Cooke skate blade cut his Achilles tendon in his left ankle. I suppose we can’t know exactly, especially if he denies it till the cows come home, but to me it sure [...]

A very interesting story has emerged regarding a disagreement betwen Max Pacioretty and league suspension-giver-outer Brendan Shanahan. Max says that during his recent hearing for coldcocking Kris Letang, Shanahan compared it to the Matt Cooke/Marc Savard affair. Shanahan insists he didn’t say this. So who was it? I’m siding with Max. He says his agent [...]

Mike Cammalleri will be lacing them up tonight in Pittsburgh, and that’s great news. Maybe our offensive thrust will be a little more thrusting. Is it too much to ask that our guys go a game, or a week or a month, or even several months, without a serious injury to a key guy? Are they lacking vitamins? But [...]

Carey Price stopped the pucks, Mike Cammalleri played more like Mike Cammalleri, and the Canadiens rebound after a dismal showing in St. Louis two days ago by blanking the Penguins 3-0 in Pittsburgh and causing Habs fans everywhere to enjoy things for a change after a dark and dirty last four days. How beautiful is it when your team [...]

It’s a waiting game now. Waiting to see if Andrei Markov is gone for good from the series. Is that a depressing opening line or what? But Montreal losing 6-3 in the opening game against Pittsburgh shouldn’t be depressing. We shouldn’t let it get us down. You bet it would’ve been nice to grab the [...]

If the league really wants to end shots to the head such as what Matt Cooke did to Boston’s Marc Savard the other night, then they have to stop dicking around and just do it. Put the hammer down on Cooke, suspend him for the rest of the season and playoffs, and maybe others will [...]