On March 24th I zoom across the country to see some family and friends and finally meet a few folks from these pages like Danno and Christopher and hopefully a few others too. As Don Cherry might say, “It’s gonna be a beauty!” Late that night I land in the Nation’s Capital where I’ll be for about a week, [...]

Tommy Gorman was some kind of mover and shaker. He went from Ottawa Citizen sports editor to owner of the Senators, and later owned the Hamilton Tigers which became the New York Americans. He’d been a founding member of the NHL in 1917, and was also coach and general manager of both the Chicago Black [...]

If the Habs can sock it to the Senators tonight in Ottawa, they will catapult themselves right into seventh place, tied with those same Ottawans. It was only the other day the Canadiens were in twelfth, so seventh is a nice, tidy little spot to be.

Ottawa Senator’s forward Mike Fisher and country music singer Carrie Underwood are photographed in their bathing suits after enjoying a quick and freezing-cold swim at Ottawa’s Dow’s Lake. ”There’s nothing like a good polar bear swim to get the juices flowing,” said Underwood. Some witnesses who were there commented that Underwood and Fisher bear a faint resemblance to Marilyn [...]

It’s become increasingly clear that Montreal’s biggest problem isn’t on defense like most of us thought it would be after Andrei Markov and Ryan O’Byrne went down with injuries. The biggest problem, it seems, after tonight’s 3-1 loss to the Ottawa Senators, is that the forwards can’t finish. The Canadiens had so many good chances, especially in [...]

Which Alex Kovalev will we see Saturday night when the Ottawa Senators visit the Habs in Montreal? Will he control the puck like it’s on a string, like he would do from time to time during his stint with the Habs, or  will he control the puck like it’s on a string, but then lose it [...]

The pre-game introductions for the Canadiens’ home opener, with each player taking the mike and saying “Je suis Scott Gomez”, for example, was different and I honestly can’t ever remember seeing this before with any team. So that was good, even though half the players were hard to understand. (but we knew what they were saying anyway [...]

Habs 2, Sens 1. Do you think the Canadiens should wear their team jerseys and jeans, or nice suits, in the Stanley Cup parade next June? JUST KIDDING, PEOPLE. We’ll talk about this later. My wife is disappointed. And when she’s disappointed, I’m disappointed. But I don’t know how to make it better. I pointed out [...]

Dany Heatley has been shipped to San Jose in exchange for forwards Jonathan Cheechoo and Milan Michalek. I can now breathe easier knowing that this guy will not be a Hab.