It could’ve been the perfect night. It was almost a 1-0 win over the Boston Bruins, with Carey Price earning a huge shutout, Glen Metropolit scoring the lone goal, and the Boston Bruins going more than three full games without scoring.
But instead, it was a shootout win for the Canadiens after Boston’s Patrice Bergeron scored with [...]

From Sports Illustrated:
The Bruins increased their stockpile of draft picks — but will they use them well?
The Maple Leafs got a young explosive scorer — but one with just one solid season. The only sure winner is Phil Kessel, who got a new five-year, $27 million contract. 
 Time was that a Boston fan’s second-favorite team was [...]

What’s the opposite of someone who’s good in math?
Me.
I was fine in grade school - adding and subtracting and multiplying like crazy when I wasn’t dropping pencils on the floor so I could look up girls’ skirts. But in high school it was different. All those ridiculous fractions and letters and things squared. People who measure [...]

 
With all due-respect to Habs hitman Georges Laraque, the newly-signed Gregory Stewart just may pick up the slack and do the job Georges was brought to Montreal to do – police, enforce, and get nasty on many a night when the game calls for nastiness.
And I say “with all due-respect” because the last thing I [...]

Mike Komisarek has signed with the Toronto Maple Leafs. Good. Toronto can have him.
So many teams were interested in signing him. How come? He was one of the Canadiens’ worst defencemen last season. He has no idea what to do with the puck. He doesn’t score goals. He got pummelled by Milan Lucic. He made [...]

Reports are floating around that the Montreal Canadiens would like to re-sign defenceman Mike Komisarek for four million bucks a year but Komisarek wants six million instead. Now, I’m going to repeat the two key parts of the previous sentence – Mike Komisarek – 6 million.
Komisarek feels he’s worth much more than last year. So this [...]

That’s Wayne Gretzky, back row, sixth from the left, posing with his grade two classmates in Brantford. At this time in his life he was scoring about 400 goals a year and was already a better player than Milan Lucic is now.

If I was an Ottawa Senators fan, I think I’d have a hard time watching the Montreal-Boston series, which the Bruins now lead three games to none and will soon put all of us out of our misery. Because if I was a Senators fan, I think it’d be a bummer knowing that Zdeno Charo once played in Ottawa [...]

Sergei Kostitsyn might want to think about a brain transplant in the off-season. Doesn’t he understand that one of the main reasons he was sent down to Hamilton this year was because of his poorly-timed and silly penalties? And tonight, back in the lineup, when he should know better, he took a flagrant first-period hooking [...]

Okay, that’s not great. No one likes to lose the first game. And maybe if it wasn’t for a poor first period and a needless crosschecking penalty late in the game, they might not have lost this first game. But it’s all hindsight. Lousy, rotten, gut-wrenching %$&#@ hindsight. Habs go down 4-2 in game one.
Yes, [...]