The Habs are gone, and for now……… No more P.K. Subban wheeling around and rushing like a man possessed, or blasting a missile from the point, or sailing across the ice, fired up, in the moment, to level an oncoming enemy. No more Brendan Gallagher crashing the net, standing firm as bigger opponents try to [...]

Ron Green in Orillia sends along an interesting story from TheStar.com – Hockey Is In Tom Scanlan’s Bones  – about a fellow who bought game-used sticks once owned by the 42 players who scored at least 500 goals in the NHL. The sticks were up for auction last June from Classic Auctions in Montreal. 42 [...]

With my busy life I need to start my day right. That’s why I go for Rocket Flakes and a couple of DK Really Freaking Strong Beers. It’s a filling, nutritious and delicious combination, packed with seven essential nutrients and 40% alcohol content, and it gets me ready to greet the day with a big [...]

I find myself thinking more and more about the lockout and how it’s affecting me, and I have to say it’s not affecting me a great deal at all, other than having to dig deep to keep posting here every day. I’m just sick of the whole mess, one created through greed, distrust and lies, [...]

Try as they may, Canadian teams were rarely a match for the powerful Soviets from the early 1960′s onward. Every World Championship, every Olympics, we’d listen on radio or watch on television as our Canadian boys, fine amateurs indeed, just couldn’t handle Russia’s best. Father David Bauer’s players weren’t NHLers, we told ourselves, and it [...]

Thanks a lot to Beatnik for sending the video below. It was Glenn Hall in nets for the Hawks who was the victim on the night the Rocket notched his 500th regular season goal, which was the first time a player had reached that milestone. I had breakfast with Hall once when he was in Powell River [...]

Back when the earth was flat and dinosaurs roamed about in foul moods, the Toronto Star Weekly (and other sister newspapers around the country) would once a week feature lovely full size photos of NHL stars which I would cut out and put into a second scrapbook, the first being my treasured Montreal Canadiens scrapbook. I looked [...]

Darth made a pilgrimage to Rocket’s grave in Montreal, and sent the following pictures. Thanks so much, Darth. Maurice Richard passed away on this day 12 years ago, May 27, 2000. He was 78.

Elmer Lach and the Rocket, looking for that pitch down the middle, the one they can drive deep into centre field. The 2012 Major League Baseball season is firing up , and I think I say it every year, but geez I miss the Expos.

Toe looking good, and below, just a great piece of film, from the night the Canadiens won their fifth straight Stanley Cup on April 14th, 1960. As you can see, Toe was bilingual.